Graduate Futures Hosts: Inside NEXT

This session is only for London College of Fashion students and graduates. It is aligned to your Graduate Futures careers journey.

NEXT has been a fashion and lifestyle staple on the UK high street for 160 years, with over 700 stores worldwide and 46,000 staff. With recent business ventures in Lipsy, Victoria Secret, Made.com, and GAP, NEXT PLC generated over £5 billion in revenue last year and is the UK’s largest clothing retailer by sales.

Curious to know how the brand became so successful? Interested in learning about their hiring process and current vacancies? Join this webinar to hear directly from NEXT’s Early Careers Recruiter and Buying Recruitment Specialist to gain insights on the brand’s company culture and teams including Design, Product, Tech, Marketing, Digital and Retail.

Speakers

• Liberty Wollaston, Early Careers Recruiter - Fashion & Home at NEXT: I'm an Early Careers Recruiter for Fashion & Home and have been with Next at for 8 years. My role allows me the opportunity to attract and retain the best talent for our Fashion and Homeware sectors. I am incredibly passionate about engaging with the 'NEXT' generation and understanding their employment values, this often involves exciting visits to different universities across the UK, to showcase how brilliant Life at Next really is!
• Julie-Anne Sloan, Buying Recruitment Specialist at NEXT: My background is in buying, starting 22 years ago as a trainee buyer on menswear. I have had the good fortune to have experienced various product areas and divisions in my buying career from Men’s ties to Women’s swimwear! The last 8 years of my buying career was spent on womenswear non-clothing and womenswear as a buying manager, before taking the plunge and heading in a new direction 18 months ago. I have always been super passionate about talent and progression within my teams. Upon my promotion to manager, a senior director gave me the advice 'build a strong team with one vision and this job will never feel like work' and he was absolutely right! In my role as buying recruitment specialist, my aim is to help enable next to really focus on that talent at graduate level... to help build a strong foundation within our buying teams.

Useful resources

In this webinar, you will develop the key skills of enterprise, communication, connectivity, and proactivity as defined by the UAL Creative Attributes Framework (My_CAF).

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Image credit: Next PLC

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