Research On The Career Development Path Of Fashion Buyer

In recent years, with the rapid development of China’s economy and the continuous improvement of people’s living standards, the fashion industry is very booming in China. More and more fashion brands, from the foreign countries and domestic, are presented to consumers in China. The fashion industry is also in rapid development.With the fast development of fashion industry, the career in fashion industry is refined, from fashion design to sales in retail stores and different occupations are gradually independent. More and more occupations emerge, such as fashion stylist, visual merchandiser, color diagnosis etc. Fashion buyer is also one of the occupation. Although fashion buyers in China is a new occupation, it has a strong market demand and more and more people are choosing fashion buyer as their career. Because China is the largest apparel production base and it also has a big market. Thus, it is essential to do research on the career development path of fashion buyers.As a headhunter working in a middle-scale company, the author was working for clients in fashion industry. Fashion buyers is eagerly needed by fashion brands. I selected the candidates now working as fashion buyers as the research object and each candidate is regarded as a sample. In this research, 100 samples are collected. By induction and analysis, I concluded 4 regular career development paths for fashion buyers. Then, by further research on 4 samples, I proposed a career path model for fashion buyers. By reading a lot of papers on research of career development and the career of fashion buyers, I have a better understanding of the theory of career development. Through this study, the author hopes to be able to have a deeper knowledge and understanding on fashion buyers and their career paths. The author also hopes this research will help fashion buyers to plan their career in a better way.