If you make fashion products for a living, you may need assistance getting this business off the ground and running. An executive may be the perfect professional to hire for this role and if it is, make sure you approach the search for one in the following ways. 

1. Identify Your Reasons for Needing Said Professional

To figure out what skills you'll need out of a fashion consumer products executive, you first have to think about why you're searching for one in the first place. What does this professional need to do the moment they start working for your fashion company?

Once you can answer this honestly, you can point out attributes that will help this executive accomplish meaningful tasks. For instance, you might be hiring this executive to help you with marketing and in that case—they need to have a background in fashion marketing.

2. Have All Viable Prospects Complete Paid Sample Projects

Probably the best way to gauge the skills of fashion consumer product executive candidates is to see them work in real-time. That is possible if you ask viable prospects to complete paid sample projects.

You'll then be able to see how each executive candidate performs on the same project and then gauge important attributes like work efficiency, multi-tasking abilities, and solving tough problems. The candidate that performs the best on these paid sample projects can move up towards the top of your hiring priority list.

3. Save Time by Hiring an Executive Search Agency

Even if you want to have most of the control in the hiring process for a fashion consumer products executive, you can still benefit from working with an executive search agency. What they can do is find you the most talented fashion professionals in your industry.

The executive search firm will take time to screen all candidates in their hiring pool, making sure they are experienced with fashion and meet your qualifying criteria. Then you can take over with structured interviews and performance-based assessments that help you narrow in on certain executive candidates in particular.

If your company is looking to make the most out of a fashion consumer products executive search, then you have to structure the process up in a way that reveals the best candidates quickly. Then you can assess them for as long as you want until you're sure your fashion company is making the right hiring decision.