They’ve invaded your Facebook with pics of half naked emo-hipster models (by the way, we’re dorks and had to look up the definitions of emo and hipster on Wikipedia, kind of like when Peter, Samir, and Michael Bolton look up money laundering in the dictionary in Office Space). A certain Ivy League campus in New York City has also been overrun with people dressed straight off this company’s website. Even when you win a t-shirt, it’s not Hanes or Fruit of the Loom anymore. American Apparel is attacking on all fronts. And before we go any farther, we should warn you that their site is filled with near-nudity, so don’t go browsing it in a public place or whatever.

American Apparel is a company whose defining advantage is the way they treat their workers. Yes, their clothes are trendy. Yes, American Apparel has provocative advertising. But without their made in America by fairly paid workers philosophy, they’d have no identity. And think about this: if they treat their sewers (people who sew, not where things go when you flush the toilet) well, they’re going to treat you well too. It’s definitely working for American Apparel, they’re growing rapidly and have been featured in Businessweek and more recently the Inc. 500.

American Apparel has a ton of entry-level jobs available in many different areas of work (almost all of which are located in Los Angeles, CA). There are more than we’re going to list, so if you want to see them all, head over to American Apparel’s jobs page. In Customer Service there are jobs such as: CSR & Reports, Retail Operations for Japan and Korea, Sales Coordinator, Showroom Sales Representative, and Wholesale Customer Returns Agent. In Production jobs include: Fabric Planning Assistant, Field Fabric Quality Control Assistant, and Technical Package Specialist. There are also a number of IT related jobs that might be good for new grads, but we feel we’ve listed a lot of tech jobs recently, so you can find them yourself. If you’re not quite ready for that desk job, you can always work at one of their retail stores.

Beyond paying above market wages, American Apparel also offers significant training for entry-level hires. So if you’re nervous about some of the skills needed for that position you really want, they might be able to help you get where you need to be. Beyond a willingness to train, they also offer free fitness and English as a second language classes, on-site masseurs, and company-subsidized lunches. From what we can tell, American Apparel also offers a very different work environment, so if their ads make you uncomfortable, working there might not be for you.

Don’t want a day job just yet? Want to just get by on your pretty face? Try modeling for American Apparel instead.

Note: On April 23rd we revisited entry-level jobs at American Apparel.

Links to Help You Begin Your Research

• The American Apparel Home Page
• Jobs at American Apparel
• American Apparel Daily Blog
• American Apparel FAQs
• American Apparel’s Management Team

Do you like American Apparel’s ads? Or do you find them offensive? Leave a comment.

We've identified American Apparel as having career opportunities in the following categories:

• all employers
• apparel
• California
• Canada
• customer service
• fashion
• international
• nationwide
• operations

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3 responses to “American Apparel”

1. American Apparel Sexist says:

   January 18, 2008 at 8:04 am

   Well, they supply jobs and have a good employment plan, however, are they exploiting women with their advertising?

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2. Willy Franzen says:

   January 18, 2008 at 11:40 am

   Thanks for adding to the conversation. We’re definitely concerned about the alleged actions of American Apparel’s CEO, and we think that anybody who is researching jobs at American Apparel should dig a little deeper and use the information they find to make an informed decision about whether they want to apply for a job.

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3. anonymous says:

   November 13, 2008 at 11:09 am

   i onced work for american apparel i was there for a year a a few months that company is no good but most of the people you work with are really good the CEO is a sexist he is way to ridiculous and a perve so yes really do look into that before applying you would not know what you’d be getting yourself into. american apparel advertisements are way to provacative especialy for the young girls who work there.

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