Clothing Industry Jobs Website
The employment website launched in November 2005 and sold in October 2012
The Apparel Search Company sold the ClothingIndustryJobs.com website in October 2012. After nearly a decade of development, the company decided to focus on other projects, and the employment system passed to new ownership. What follows is kept for historical reference: the story of the company's first full employment website, launched in November 2005.
Although the Apparel Search website had an employment message board system from the first year of the site's development, that board was, frankly, terrible. So the company invested in a new system and launched its employment site at ClothingIndustryJobs.com - a real jobs database, kept at a separate address on purpose: putting the employment system directly on ApparelSearch.com risked overloading the main website with too many databases, and a separate address was easier to manage.
Jobs Websites and Employment Routes
Two Primary Employment Sections
With the launch, the company had two primary sections for employment. The Fashion Industry Jobs Directory held the resources around the search: employment resources, employment agency listings, job guides and employment articles. The Clothing Industry Jobs website held the market itself: a jobs database system for employers to post job opportunities for the fashion and textile industry.
The split is the classic one, and it still structures fashion employment on Apparel Search today. Guidance and listings are different goods: a job seeker needs both, but mixing them in one list serves neither. The directory answers 'how does hiring in this industry work and who can help me'; the database answers 'what is open this week'.
Employers Post, Employees Post Resumes
The service aided employees as well as employers. Fashion industry employees could post resumes that they could edit as their experience changed, so a profile could grow with a career instead of freezing at the day it was written. The Clothing Industry Jobs website was created as a free service for posting and reading employment opportunities and resumes.
Free mattered. Fashion is an industry of small companies and individual craftspeople; a posting fee would have filtered out exactly the employers and workers the system existed to connect. On the site, an employer seeking employees with fashion experience had a place to post an opportunity, and a person searching for a career in fashion had a place to start - or to expand an existing one.
Fashion Job Search and the Family Since
The employment family kept growing around it: the company's newer Fashion Job Search site launched in January 2007, and the Apparel Jobs site took the aggregation approach, pulling listings from several other job sites. Both sister sites have their own pages in this section, linked above.
Clothing Industry Jobs itself was sold in October 2012, which is why its record sits on this page in the past tense. Fashion employment guidance, meanwhile, never left Apparel Search: the Fashion Industry Jobs Directory route at the top of this page leads to the employment resources that remain part of the main guide.
Common Questions
When was Clothing Industry Jobs launched and sold?
Launched in November 2005 by the Apparel Search Company, after its early employment message board proved inadequate. The website was sold in October 2012, after nearly a decade of development.
Why was the employment system on a separate website?
To avoid overloading the main ApparelSearch.com website with too many databases; a separate address was easier to manage.
What could employers and employees do on it?
Employers could post job opportunities for the fashion and textile industry; employees could search the listings and post resumes they could edit as their experience changed. The service was free.
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