How to join the OVS Group
We are looking for candidates from a wide range of backgrounds, educational studies, and geographic origin, but our Group offers everyone the same opportunity for the growth and development of their skills.
#WearYourChance. This is the invitation we extend to our candidates, who will be able to meet new challenges with OVS Group. The range of prospects we offer is broad enough to give everyone an opportunity tailored to their needs and aspirations.
Regardless of whether they are students looking for a part-time store job to support studies, graduates at the start of their career in a specific area, or professionals interested in new opportunities, OVS offers the ideal program for any area of interest.
Openness and accessibility are the drivers for the development of our brands. With us you can create outfits and accessories that are within everyone’s reach; you will learn how to identify trends, develop collections and verify the response from customers, monitoring sale KPIs. In our Men’s, Women’s and Children’s Product Directions you will have the chance to start out on an experience that will lead you to see the whole process of creating and developing new collections.
The sales network is the beating heart of our business! With a network of over 2000 stores worldwide and a widespread presence in Italy, we are close to our customers inspiring them in their purchases. With us they find a warm welcome, politeness and passion. If you are looking for an opportunity in Fashion Retail which can satisfy your entrepreneurial spirit, this is the opportunity for you.
Our roots are based in Italian tradition, culture and style, but our gaze is directed to the future and to innovation. Our Group’s online stores supplement the network of physical outlets, offering customers an omni-channel experience. Join our team of digital experts and write the future of retailing with us.
We don’t only need skills, but the desire to transform and to have an impact on the future of our business. In the OVS Group technology is the heart of our development strategies.
To continue in our digital transformation and to keep guaranteeing an effective service for our stores and so for our customers, join our IT team.
Attention and prompt deliveries have an immediate impact on the customer experience. For this reason our Logistics and product distribution team play a key role in our strategy which puts the customer at the centre, both in store and online.
TIPS & TRICKS
In the OVS Group we have started to change the paradigm, we are disseminating an approach which favours the engagement of the candidate. In this sense, the interview is a meeting with the company, which must help the candidate understand the work context, measure themselves against the corporate culture and understand whether that may be the right ground on which to grow from a professional viewpoint.
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TIP & TRICK 1
For us, recruiters or hiring managers are ambassadors who set out their experience in the company transparently and passionately. Do not hide or underestimate what you consider your failures: in each person’s progress there may be situations that are not always positive, the important thing is to see how we reacted to complex and difficult situations.
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TIP & TRICK 2
LinkedIn is an important channel to communicate with our potential candidates. The stories of our employees, the projects we are developing, the new store openings, the business results: there is room for everything on the OVS SPA page. The suggestion we offer you is to use these contents in order to better understand the company. Take inspiration to ask questions during the interview and valorise the reason why you would like to work with us.
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TIP & TRICK 3
If you know someone who already works in the company, of course ask about their experience, but don’t be influenced in the opinion you form after meeting them. Come to the interview with some good questions, on the role and skills required or which you will develop during your experience, take care over your LinkedIn profile and the presentation of your CV.
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TIP & TRICK 4
Don’t focus solely on the interview, whether in person or by video. The interview is not the only opportunity to make yourself known and collect information on the company. Equally important are the way in which you handle the phone calls with the recruiters, the email exchange before and after the interview, the style you use in every contact you have with the company, the care with which you updated your CV or your LinkedIn profile: these are all equally important elements in the process of knowledge and discovery which is the recruiting stage.
TALES OF TALENT
Carmelo, Buying & Merchandising GAP Italy
Business trip to New York? Check!
With OVS Group, Carmelo realised a little big dream of his, "to take a business trip to the US, to get to know a different and complementary retail environment".
"I handle Buying & Merchandising within the team that manages GAP in Italy. After 4 years with a major Italian department store, in October 2021 I decided to move from Milan to Venice to start this new adventure.
"For a travel enthusiast like me, the international aspect, albeit totally within an Italian context, was something not to be missed along my career path."
Valeria, Head of women's department
"Every time I think back to my first days in the company, I just smile."
Valeria works in Rome, in the OVS Cassia Olgiata team. "It is a reason of pride for me to know that, in my own small way, I helped launch our shop. When I started, I had no retail skills, now I am the head of the women's department.
"I am usually a very cautious person, but with OVS I felt I could launch myself into a new adventure. It is the same adrenaline and satisfaction that I felt when I bought a one-way ticket to London."
Zelda, Product and Supplier Development
"The life cycle of clothes, from production to purchase, is a fascinating world that I love exploring."
After graduating in foreign languages from the University of Padua, Zelda began her professional career in the clothing industry. With a wealth of experience in the industry, she joined OVS as a product and supplier developer, working with teams from all over the world!
"What I love most about OVS is the opportunity to work towards sustainability every day. In fact, I took part in the Cotone Italiano project, which produces T-shirts made entirely with cotton grown in Sicily, and Italian yarn.”
Join our teams and be the hero of your own story too!