Beyond the Shop Floor

Today is our last episode of season 3 and the last episode for 2022. Want to know how much businesses lose with a bad hire? In today’s episode I dive into tips for improving your hiring process to avoid hiring the wrong people, what you should be looking for with a recruiter and how important it is to be on the same page.

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Today I am joined by the talented Caroline Marvelli. Head of sourcing and production at Lee, Wrangler and Riders. Caroline gives us a real lens on what pathways are available to design grads and what skills you’ll need to possess to venture into a career into sourcing and production.

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In today’s episode, I’m sharing all the juicy tips on how to prepare for your interview to ensure that you absolutely leave every employer wanting more and wanting you to join their team. I cover what questions to ask future employers, what insights your recruiter should provide to support you and how to nail your elevator pitch.

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For the past 6 years, Simone has worked with Ralph Lauren and is their Senior Talent Development and Employee Communications Manager. Simone has an amazing background in learning and development and training manager roles and she is here to share her journey with pivoting her career path and finding her purpose and the things that helped her along the way.

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Having too many job offers sounds like *the dream*, right? Handling these offers with care and taking the time to thoughtfully consider what offer is best for you is crucial. In this episode, I’ll share tips for effective communication and decision making techniques while maintaining relationships with potential employers and protecting your personal brand.

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When I speak to my clients about wanting to work in the HQ of fashion brands, one of the top roles that people want is a Buyer. On today’s episode, I’m joined by Culture Kings Buyer, Christina Cassaniti who shares her career journey as a Buyer and what she attributes her success to. We had lots of people asking for us to have a buyer on the show and Christina keeps it real by sharing the not-so-glamorous side of being a Buyer.

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Naturally as a recruiter, my job is to talk to people and build relationships and the tale surely rings true as it’s not what you know, it’s who you know. In this episode, I’m talking about all things relationship currency. What it means, who it’s for and how to improve your own.

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After a well needed break, we are BACK for another season of the Beyond the Shop Floor Podcast. There is a lot of new happening in the world of The Talent Mill and we’re so excited to catch you up on what’s been going on including some incredible new team members. In this episode we chat about if someone needs to return to study to pivot in their career. I talk about my personal university journey and other opportunities for learning that don’t involve picking up the books in a classroom.

We’d love to hear from you if you’ve returned to study for a new role and if it helped you to land the new role or if you never looked at the piece of paper again.

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Welcome to the Beyond the Shop Floor Podcast. Your OG retail gal Ange is here to unlock the secret universe of fashion & beauty career success on the shop floor and beyond. We interview rising stars in the industry, the big players, entrepreneurs and help answer those burning career questions you have got!

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This one is all about career reputation and personal branding particularly when making a career move. If you have burnt bridges in the past, or wondered just how certain actions reflect on you then this is the one for you! Whether its conflict at work, professional clashes or you just don’t want to work that annoying notice period – learn how actions can have an ongoing impact long after that annoying thing has stopped bothering you!

We talk through the best way to disengage professionally – ensuring that your legacy is one that reflects on ALL your hard work and energy and not the last couple of weeks when you were over it!

We are taking a break from the podcast while we onboard some new staff at The Talent Mill, and we will be back soon with season 3! 

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In today’s episode we’re joined by CEO of Megaphone Marketing and fellow kiwi, Lauren Oakes. Lauren shares her incredible story of career progression and gives us insight on growing the social media agency of the year to a team of 120+ employees.

Have you ever written off a company because of its “bad” culture?

In this episode we dive into what makes a good work culture and knowing that what I may think is good culture (like having a sparkling water on tap), may not be your idea of having a good culture. I’ll give you useful tips to uncover the good, the bad and the ugly of company culture to see if they’re a good fit for YOU.

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Calling our beauty lovers! Always knowing she wanted to start an eComm business, Jemma had toyed with many ideas whilst she built a successful Eyebrow Artistry business from her home.

In 2020 with the lockdowns shutting down the beauty industry – and with most of us incorporating home workouts (outside if you were lucky enough to be in Queensland!) which got her thinking of the impact on her skin that outdoor workouts were having.

After thoroughly researching the damage that exercise can have on our complexion through free radical damage and oxidative stress, Jemma sought to create a skincare regime that kept women living their most active lives without sacrificing their skin. Jemma created the first all-natural, vegan skincare range tailored specifically to an active lifestyle.

Whilst also being a mum, Jemma understands all too well the challenges of being an entrepreneur.We cover schooling, how to handle choosing a career that might not be in line with your parents vision for you and the ins and outs of developing a beauty line!

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Joining me on the podcast today is Cassie Sanghvi, certified pharmacist and Co Founder of Australia’s leading magnesium skincare company, The Base Collective.

Cassie and friend Carly founded The Base Collective in 2016 after identifying a rising need and a gap in the market for a range of skincare that was both free from unwanted chemicals and design focused. In just five short years the duo turned the brand into a multi-million dollar business. She and Carly even turned down a $5 million offer from China to export TBC's Magnesium Oil because it required animal testing.

Cassie and I chat about how they turned an idea into a business, the skill sets they needed to obtain to successfully run the business and challenges the duo faced along the way.

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We are back and back with a bang! Welcome to the new season of Beyond the Shop Floor podcast – we are switching things up this year with 4 seasons of 10 episodes and a new pod dropping WEEKLY!

This season we already have some EPIC guests lined up from GM’s of luxury brands, Fashion Designers, Sustainability champions, Merchandise Planners, Area Managers – We are diving IN to get the career goodies for you!

So lets go Season 2, Episode 1 for 2022 we have none other than Sophie Large – GM of Mulberry for Aus & NZ! Sophie’s career journey is one of grit, resilience and grabbing opportunities with both hands. She outlines the impact that key mentors have had on her career decision making, the importance of cultivating relationships that have long lasting benefits, and her experiences of feeling the glass ceiling and her advice to you if you are feeling it too. With big brand names under belt like Mimco, Furla, Dior Beauty and of course Mulberry – Sophie is a career retailer with some amazing roles under her belt and she is only just getting started!

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Welcome back to Beyond the Shop Floor Podcast – our final episode for the year!
What a year it has been – I want to thank you all for your support and feedback – there is a lot of work that goes into a podcast and for me this is a passion project that is all about advocating for careers in retail – This year was really all about testing the waters learning what everyone was responding to and committing to being really consistent with content.  

This year has been bittersweet on a professional and personal level – I feel like so much has been accomplished - We launched a new website this week, navigated digital transformations, I am growing the team and I completed my postgraduate to certify as a Career Coach. PHEW no wonder I am feeling tired!

Of course, it hasn’t all been roses – but whatever is? Personally, it has been a challenging year for me on so many levels like it has been for most of us, with the year ending in a totally different way and different location to what I thought. This reflection got me to thinking about with everyone talking about labour shortages and the impending Great resignation – there will be a LOT of people post 2020/2021 aka dirty Rona pondering a total game changer when it comes to career. Thinking about totally hitting up the pivot can feel conflicting super exciting – but oh so scary particularly if it could mean a financial sacrifice. So today join me as I share my personal story of career pivots and evolution – one that saw me take a $50k salary cut to do it, whether I have any regrets and the biggest lessons I learnt along the way.

Tune in for one last time in 2021 – and I will see you beautiful people back here for a bright new year around the corner! Stay safe and happy holidays!

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Welcome back to Beyond the Shop Floor Podcast – Episode 21 is HERE.

You have heard all the chat about the Great Resignation – I hope otherwise where have you been?? But something more pressing that is creating a very challenging market right now is the low levels of resignations and applications that the Australian market is facing right now. Low levels of global mobility, the C word, and a few other crap political things are making this the tightest market we have seen possibly ever. The good news? This is the PERFECT market to leverage if you aren’t where you want to be.

SO A QUICK NOTE TO YOU – go check your LinkedIn DM’s cause I guarantee people are sliding in there! And if they aren’t? Then your profile needs a review girls and boys cause people can’t find you! In which case you also need to come see me! Hehe!

So the likelihood of you handling multiple job offers is increasing right now. So how do you decide which role is for you? What things do you need to consider? How long is it acceptable to make a company wait while you consider which offer you want to accept? We cover all this and more in this weeks episode of Beyond the Shop Floor!

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Welcome back to episode 19 of Beyond the Shop Floor podcast.

If you have ever wondered why you are being asked those competency based questions...
What are you looking for? Tell me about yourself? This is the ONE for you!
Possibly one of the most common complaints I hear from candidates, friends, private career coaching clients and the whole world – is how excruciating they find interviews. No matter how much of a bad ass professional they might be – pop them in an interview and all those carefully curated answers disappear from their head.

First of all – there are a whole heap of truth bombs that I introduce you to during interview coaching. The first being its NEVER as bad as you think it is!
Secondly – yep, like all things that our mums told us that is annoyingly true – practise does indeed make perfect(ly impressive)
Third and most important – an interview my loves is a TWO WAY STREET! Its not all about whether they love you – do YOU love them? When we get too wrapped up in trying to be the perfect example of whatever you have perceived they are looking for – you miss the opportunity to observe the interaction, ask crucial questions and decide if it’s a love affair worth investing 40 hours a week in!