Author: Eoghan O’Donnell

The Insider Advice series offers advice from leading fashion and beauty professionals, HR leaders and academics to answer topical careers questions for today’s employees and help inform and guide you in your career. Discover the latest job opportunities with 2,700+ roles on BoF Careers today.The fashion and beauty industries experienced a wave of redundancies in 2025, from Burberry reporting it would cut over 1,700 jobs globally to beauty conglomerate The Estée Lauder Companies reducing its workforce by 7,000 amid profit recovery and growth plan.With “challenging” overtaking “uncertainty” as the most frequently used word to describe the industry in 2026 by…