Become a ready-to-wear sales assistant or sales consultant

Do you need extra pay? Are you at the end of a fixed-term contract? Are you looking for a job that is at least part-time? Or an income-generating activity alongside a permanent job?

You're thinking about the sales sector. And job vacancies in the ready-to-wear sector, particularly for women, appeal to you because you're interested in the skills and know-how involved in the clothing industry and, more generally, in fashion items.

Being a ready-to-wear sales assistant or consultant is not something you can improvise. ELORA, the leading home fashion retailer, has all the information you need!

QU'EST-CE QU'UNE VENDEUSE DE PRÊT À PORTER ?

The role of a ready-to-wear salesperson whether it's in a shop or at home, it's all about helping customers to discover products during the buying process.

The driving force behind our business is to provide advice on clothing choices, fittings and sizing, so that we can find each customer the items best suited to their style and body type.

Being a ready-to-wear sales assistant or sales consultant is a passionate profession, a type of work that requires a great deal of empathy with customers.

Whatever your skills or your starting job, if you want to succeed in the ready-to-wear sales business, you need to love fashion, have good commercial sense and/or the right training.

The wording of job offers and the selection of profiles by recruiters vary according to each brand, retail chain or boutique, but there is one constant. On the job market, a ready-to-wear sales assistant or sales consultant must position herself as aan "expert in customer advice".

A fashion specialist driven by genuine motivation, she seeks to create a climate of trust, whether in shop or at home. The ultimate aim is to enable her customers to leave with the products they've been dreaming of, while offering them a great sales experience.

THE ACTIVITIES OF OUR SALES ADVISERS

There's no question of repetitive, stressful work at ELORA. It's nothing like working in a department store, at the checkout or even as a floor manager, with the sole aim of collecting your salary at the end of the month!

Just like a sales assistant in a ready-to-wear shop, the activity of our independent home fashion consultants at ELORA is structured around the following skills:

• helping customers choose their clothes and wear them well;
• enable customers to select items that match their body shape;
• provide qualified and professional image advice;
• knowing how to analyse the needs, desires and tastes expressed by customers beforehand.

It's a much more human and friendly approach than in mass retail! It's not a question of following repetitive instructions to the letter, or keeping up a daily work rhythm in a shop, or feeling like you've been beaten to a pulp "stuck" in the straitjacket of an employment contract.

At ELORA, a ready-to-wear home assistant is her own manager. She sets her own sales targets, based on her personality, the time she has available and her expectations in terms of business income.

Good to know: organising even two door-to-door sales a week means you can earn an income comparable to the minimum wage, while still holding down a job at the same time!

WHAT SKILLS ARE ESSENTIAL FOR THE JOB OF SALES CONSULTANT?

Being a good saleswoman in ready-to-wear, this requires a number of essential qualities and skills:

• feel at ease in the sales sector;
• good people skills ;
• be rigorous and responsible ;
• be an ambassador for the brand, its products and its offers;
• know the products well, in detail, to be able to give good advice;
• express themselves convincingly, with a tone that is both warm and commercial;
• be genuinely motivated by their field of activity and by customer relations.

WHAT YOU NEED TO STUDY TO WORK AS A SALES CONSULTANT

At ELORA, whatever your background, experience or previous jobs, we can offer you training and a dynamic professional environment, so that you can launch your career in ready-to-wear home shopping with confidence.

Our only prerequisites are a strong passion for fashion and the qualities that are essential to the profession.

As a result, we are not specifically looking for a "Bac Pro Commercial or "Sales BTS or even "DUT marketing techniques. While this type of training is a plus, it is not a real selection criterion for our company.

The fact that you don't have a degree shouldn't stop you from pursuing your career or from applying for our vacancies. We do not require a lengthy CV or a 3-page covering letter. On the basis of your application, we believe that your motivation for working as a sales assistant and your natural liking for fashion are the two key elements that will enable you to succeed as a home-based sales assistant.

QUALITIES OF A GOOD SALES CONSULTANT

• Being a good listener :a fashion consultant is in constant contact with customers. To find the perfect outfit for each of your customers, you need to quickly identify their needs and intuitively understand what they want to wear (or... what they won't wear!);
• Be on the lookout for trends and the fashion line of the new ELORA collections: a fashion sales assistant is considered to be a real expert on clothes and looks;
• Be enthusiastic: the shopping experience must be enjoyable from start to finish, for all customers, at least as much as in-store;
• Be patient: choosing new clothes isn't easy for everyone. The decision to buy can take time and very personal advice.

In short, to be professional and committed, across the board!

If you're convinced that you meet these criteria, you're ready to apply for a job as a fashion sales assistant / consultant, so go for it! You'll be able to become a home sales assistant.

To find the job of your dreams at ELORA, simply fill in our contact form or give us a call to find out what we have to offer and benefit from our advice.

You'll get detailed answers to all your specific questions. For example: How should I present my application and any covering letter? Then, how will the training go? What about my first fashion sale? How is it different from working in a shop? What type of contract will bind me to the brand? If I'm already working, do I have to quit my job? How do I check my agreements with my current employer? etc.

TRAINING AND EXPERIENCE REQUIRED

At ELORA, we are constantly offering new opportunities for you to join our ready-to-wear sales team. What sets us apart as a recruiter and employer is that we are open to a wide variety of profiles and offer free training tailored to the profile and expectations of each salesperson.

Depending on your strengths and weaknesses, your skills and your needs in terms of technical knowledge, we offer several training modules, focusing on customer relations, product knowledge, marketing, etc.

Coached from the outset by a "godmotheryou can take advantage of these training courses, either in the field or remotely via the internet. All are optional and free of charge.

DEVELOPING YOUR SALES AND CONSULTANCY SKILLS

A sales assistant at ELORA is a real sales consultant. That's why each new member of the team is given the opportunity to develop her area of expertise, to become "Personal Stylist. This involves both general and more specific training in home sales techniques.

To bePersonal Stylistit also means being an advisor, or even a coach, which includes expertise in styling, colour matching, morphology, matching clothes to customers' personalities and so on.

With ELORA, enter the exciting professional world of fashion! At a time when everyone is looking for a more relational and emotional approach, you'll find an exceptional place in a sector with a bright future.