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• Fashion Design Career: Getting Started
• Fashion Journalism: Write Your Own Career Path
• Fashion Marketing: The Trendsetting Business
• Fashion Merchandising: A Career in the Fashion Business
• Fashion Retail Management: Career Training in the Business
• Fashion Visual Merchandising: Career Training for the Style Business
• The Four Hottest Fashion Jobs and the Career Training Information You Need to Get Them

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The Four Hottest Fashion Jobs and the Career Training Information You Need to Get Them

Do you daydream about working in the fashion business? Designers aren't the only people with their fingers on the pulse of the fashion world--the industry offers a wide variety of careers. Online degree programs can give you the training you need to launch a stylish career from the comfort of your own home. You just need to know where to look for these dream jobs.

Dream Job # 1: Fashion Retail Manager

Take charge of the store--and your career--as a fashion retail manager. Ensconced in the business side of fashion, a fashion retail manager works with designers to develop ideas for showrooms, store windows, and customers' shopping bags. Event planning, sales management, and product development for stores, malls, or other retail businesses are some of the duties of this job. And the future looks bright. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported a median annual salary of $106,790 in 2007, and employment opportunities are predicted to grow faster than average.

Dream Job # 2: Fashion Journalism

Write the latest in fashion trends with a career in fashion journalism. In this job, you can put your pen to work, opining about fashion in magazines, books, trade publications, or even blogs. You can get the inside track on the latest trends and conduct interviews with fashion business insiders, such as photographers, designers, and public relations specialists. The BLS states that the median annual earnings for salaried writers were $60,120 in 2007, and job prospects are even better if you're trained in a specialized field.

Dream Job #3: Fashion Merchandising

Fashion merchandising lets you work behind-the-scenes to ensure that everything at a store or boutique runs smoothly. You'd be involved with manufacturing clothing and accessories, as well as buying, promoting, and selling them. This dream career combines your fashion sense with business expertise. According to the BLS, marketing managers (including fashion merchandisers) earned a median annual salary of $113,400 in 2007, and college degree holders should have the best job opportunities.

Dream Job #4: Store Design and Visual Merchandising

Visual merchandisers and store designers bring together artistry and technical business expertise to conceptualize, design, and implement in-store and window displays. Their design techniques can incorporate customer psychology, current fashion trends, and the brand image of the store or department. They have to be flexible and ready to change the business's appearance for promotions and, of course, to reflect seasonal holidays. The BLS says that interior designers (including store designers) earned a median annual salary of $50,190 in 2007.

Land Your Dream Job in the Fashion Business with an Online Degree

An online degree can give you the personalized, fast-track career training to succeed in one of these fashion careers. Get a college degree in your free time on your computer. With so many choices, why put your dreams on hold? Fashion the life you want and land that career with an online degree today.

• Bureau of Labor Statistics, Advertising, Marketing, Promotions, Public Relations, and Sales Managers
• Bureau of Labor Statistics, "Writers and Editors"
• Monster Trak, "Visual Merchandisers: Retail's silent salespeople."
• Bureau of Labor Statistics, "Interior Designers"