Clothing Industry Experiences

I have worked in Finnish clothing industry before my academic career. I was hired as a trainee and after successful internship they hired me as a product assistant including design tasks. My boss wrote to my employment certificate that I have competed my tasks exemplarily and I´m perceiving wide areas of clothing procuring and production fields. She describes that you rarely see that high level of initiative as I have and I am very precise and trustworthy employee.

I am thankful that this experience introduced me wide areas of work tasks and I learned a lot! Several seasons were in the making at the same time and I wrote plenty of emails everyday to communicate with the overseas factories of the production. I also learned about cultural differences.

Here are some of my work tasks:

• Designing
  • clothesprint patterns for garmentsplace print patterns for gaments
• Instructing the production factories
  • seasons´sample collections
• Measuring and instructing changes to the factory
  • proto garmentsapproval sample garmentsproduction sample garmentsshipping sample garmentsfitting sample garmentscouter sample garments
• Checking and commenting
  • washed garment samplesswatch samples
• Instructing and/or approving
  • care labelshangtagscustomers´ price instrictions and stickers for suppliercustomers´ EAN codes for suppliercustomers´ polybag instructions and stickers for supplier
• Instructing and drawing vectors
  • garments for production production color decomposition suggestions for saleproduction color decomposation after orders
• Drawing vectors
  • seasons´ garment and catalogs making changes
• Tracking
  • ordersorder confirmationsdelivery/shipment scheduleflight schedulearrivals of the ordered products to the retailersmissing products
• Authorizing
  • shipping approvals
• Organising
  • seasons´ garments to the racks
• Checking and updating
  • prices to the production´s instruction cardssuppliers to the production´s instruction cardsforbidden chemical lists and signatures
• Printing and combining
  • seasons´ catalogs
  • sclients´ orders from collections
• Collecting
  • seasons´ digital collections
• Working with production software
  • opening the information for productsupdating the product information
• Modeling
  • fitting model for womens´ wear
• Familirization
  • of the technical parts of the procuring process