Apparel Jobs Website

The Apparel Search Company launched a website called Apparel Jobs, a fashion industry employment website that can be viewed at www.ApparelJobs.net. It is one of a small family of employment websites the company built around the same problem - helping people who want a career in fashion find openings, and helping apparel companies find them - and this page explains how Apparel Jobs itself works and how it differs from its sister sites.

The distinction matters because the sites sound interchangeable and are not. All of the company's jobs sites are completely separate systems relying on unique data, so a listing found on one is not simply a copy of a listing on another. A job seeker who understands which system holds which kind of listing searches more effectively than one who assumes the three sites mirror each other.

Two Kinds of Listings

Some of the company's apparel industry employment sites contain job listings that are provided directly by their viewers - employers and industry members posting their own openings into the system. The Apparel Jobs site works the other way: it pulls job listings from several other job sites, gathering openings that were posted elsewhere into one fashion-focused place.

Each approach has its strength. Viewer-provided listings are native to the industry and often come from smaller companies that post nowhere else. Pulled listings give breadth: openings from across the wider jobs market, filtered to the apparel trade, without the seeker visiting each source site in turn. Apparel Jobs was built for the breadth side of that pair.

The Jobs Site Family

Alongside Apparel Jobs, the company owns other jobs sites such as Clothing Industry Jobs and Fashion Job Search, each described on its own page in this section. Clothing Industry Jobs, launched in November 2005 and sold in October 2012, was a database system where employers posted openings and employees posted resumes. Fashion Job Search, launched in January 2007, took yet another approach to the same employment problem.

Keeping the systems separate was deliberate. Separate databases could be managed, developed and even sold independently, and each site's data stayed unique to it. The employment section of Apparel Search itself - linked at the top of this page - stands behind all of them as the directory of employment resources, agencies and guides.

Looking for a Career in Fashion

If you are interested in having a career in fashion, the Apparel Jobs site is a place to view job listings gathered for the industry. Fashion employment spans design rooms, pattern and sample work, production, merchandising, buying, sales, marketing and retail management, and a listings aggregator is most useful when its search is pointed at one of those families at a time.

Start broad if you are exploring - read the range of titles the industry actually hires for - and narrow by role and location once you know your direction. The sister sites and the Apparel Search employment directory, all linked from this page, give the same search three different data sets to work with, which is the real benefit of the family: not three copies of one list, but three lists.

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