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The world’s cashmere clothing and industry trends

Cashmere is the world’s rare animals, rare specialty fiber, textile industry, high-grade raw materials, known as the “diamond fiber” and “soft gold.” It is the goats to ward off the cold in the mountains, a layer of wool and root growth of delicate and abundant hair, referred to as cashmere. The more cold weather, cashmere and more rich, more slender fibers. As the Kashmir region of Asia has historically been the hub of cashmere export to Europe, so cashmere in the international market accustomed to being known as Cashmere, China uses its homonym for “cashmere.” Compared with other fibers, cashmere has a gloss natural, soft, pure, gorgeous and so on.

1, the world wool industry overview
1. Production profile
The world’s major cashmere producing countries are China, Mongolia, Iran, Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, Turkey and other countries. China is the world’s largest producer of cashmere production, accounting for more than 70% of world output; Mongolian cashmere production of about 20%, there is rarely a part of cashmere production in the rest of the country. As an important economic value of cashmere and a variety of uses, since the 20th century, 70s, Australia, New Zealand, Scotland, the United States, also have begun to develop cashmere industry.

In China, Inner Mongolia, Xinjiang, Tibet, Qinghai, Gansu, Ningxia, Shanxi, Hebei, Shanxi, Shandong and Liaoning cashmere region is the main producing areas in China. Inner Mongolia is China’s largest number of cashmere goats, cashmere Cashmere advantage of the highest-producing areas. About the world cashmere production of 1 / 3 (Table 1), known as the “World cashmere look at China, look at Inner Mongolia Cashmere” consensus.

2. Quality Overview
The value of wool affected by three kinds of factors: fineness, length and color. International Textile industry demands for cashmere fineness with a diameter of 13.0 ~ 16.0 m for the best in the international market 16.0 m in diameter below the maximum length of a long cashmere prices, with the diameter of bold price also brought down. Colors are divided into Cashmere, blue velvet, Zi Rong, including Cashmere most precious, the world’s cashmere production accounts for only about 30%. Mongolian cashmere production, color to blue, violet-based, about 5% of White Cashmere, 70% of blue velvet and Zi Rong, length 35 ~ 37mm, fineness between 13 ~ 15 m. Afghanistan, Iran, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and other Central and West Asia countries produced velvet, color to dark mainly coarse fineness, length short, feel worse. Afghan cashmere fiber diameter of 16.5 ~ 17.5 m; Iran cashmere fiber diameter of 17.5 ~ 19 m, only textile and woolen cashmere products: cashmere fiber diameter of the Don in Russia 19.5 m; Turkey cashmere fiber diameter of 16 ~ 17 m: Australia feral cashmere fiber diameter of 16.5 ~ 16.9 m. China’s cashmere is not only a good fineness, fiber diameter of 13 ~ 15 m, and a higher proportion of white cashmere, accounting for about 40%.

In northern China, including Xinjiang, Qinghai, Gansu, Ningxia, Inner Mongolia, Liaoning and other places, mainly produces more than the length of 34 ~ 42mm white dehaired cashmere. Is the main raw material for knitwear; the central part of Shaanxi, Shanxi, Shandong, Hebei and so on land. 22 ~ 32mm of dehaired cashmere products suitable for production of woolen woven products. Tibet Zirong to fineness 14.8 m, the length of 34mm to feel good, pure color and unique style, influenced by popular. Liaoning Cashmere goat Cashmere high volume of individuals. Alashan Inner Mongolia cashmere goats, cashmere goats Arbas, Erlang mountain goats, and Chifeng Saihan known Cashmere goats produce cashmere in Need “white in white” (the length of 36mm or more, fineness 15.3 m below) and Tibet Breeding of the northern Tibet since the production of Cashmere goats, quality Jia.

Second, the world’s cashmere industry’s trade status
United Kingdom, Italy, Japan, the United States and other countries are the world’s largest cashmere importer. According to “China Customs Statistics Yearbook,” Statistics show that in 2006, Italian imports of raw cashmere 2254t, British imports 408t, Japan, 345t, the United States due to the impact of slow economic growth, imports of raw cashmere less than usual.

For cashmere-exporting countries in 2006, exports of raw cashmere Mongolia 927t, export value of 22.224 million U.S. dollars: Kazakhstan out of 121389t, export value of 1.514 million U.S. dollars; Belgium out of 121318t, exports amounted to 2.264 million U.S. dollars: Turkey out of 121119t; Iran exported 115t. Read from the global pattern. Cashmere industry in recent years, great changes have taken place. The first is the United States to phase out large-scale production enterprises; followed by Japan, a lot of cashmere industry is shrinking. Because of their high cost, the Japanese textile industry have moved their factories produced in China. Dehaired cashmere imported from Japan in 1989 had 1000t, 2002, imports less than 400t. The traditional European cashmere producing countries such as Britain, Italy and other countries. Due to high labor costs, is also beginning to shift to the Chinese textile enterprises.

Good Physical Fitness In The Call Center Industry

With the rapidly increasing call center industry, more and more people are engaged in countless hours of grueling training and practicing on how to handle calls, file reports, schedule personnel and inventory checks, and more. With globalization, the different call centers required shifts even during the graveyard timeframe, which means that call center agents would have to endure the normal sleeping hours working just to be accommodate transaction calls from halfway around the world. Good physical fitness in the call center industry is simple and defined into three simple key words: coffee, cigarette, and alcohol.

With the long continuous hours in which the agent endures sitting idly talking to a headset, it would definitely cause the body to slow down and lessen the persons capability to circulate the blood within. This causes a reflex action of yawning, which signifies a greater need of oxygen in the respiratory – cardiovascular area. It would also manifest a sense of sleepiness.

As a result of this common phenomenon, coffee has been one of the mainstays of the call center agents, and personnels alike to combat sleepiness and degradation of competent performance. Even if the direct effect of coffee to the body is to keep us awake, there are detrimental effects of too much coffee such as possible kidney complications and dehydration.

Lessening the amount of coffee per day would also lessen the amount of urged moments for the agent to go to the bathroom. Furthermore, lessening of bone density has been found on chronic coffee drinkers.

Cigarette:

Another avenue for stress release of agents in the call center industry is by lighting up a cigarette or two during break time or lunch hour. Many of these agents claim that the habit of lighting up of a cigarette during free time not only increases their social sphere but also lessen their anxiety and work related stressors.

However, we all know the negative effects of cigarettes to the lungs and body of a smoker. For one, the smoke coming from the cigarettes passes through our respiratory system. This smoke is a combination of impure particles which we allow to reach our lungs and attach to our bronchioles. A gradual and significant blocking of the smoke in the linings of the bronchioles would lessen the amount of oxygen exchanged between, which causes us to have difficulty in breathing.

Alcohol

After work shift hours, one of the usual stress release methods of agents is to go to the local hangout place and have a round or two of alcoholic drinks. This happens especially when salaries have been doled out. However, when alcohol is excessively ingested, could damage the liver. The liver is mans natural fat and alcohol synthesizer. An excessive alcohol load on the liver to synthesize in frequency may cause the liver to malfunction or lead to alcohol induced cirrhosis.

These three things are the main culprits in lessening the health status of call center agents. Good physical fitness in this concept would entail being able to say no or lessen these three culprits. Staying in the call center industry is technically a tedious and health taxing job to undergo, especially due to the high demand of work. Nevertheless, substitutes for these may come on the form of healthy fruit juice, or any other healthy food. It is a matter of initiative and choice for one to good physical fitness when faced with a situation.

How To Get A Job In The Fashion Industry Even During The Recession!

Today a friend from who worked at a Designer Apparel company called me somewhat depressed. His company closed their showroom and he has been out of work for 4 months without any prospects for work. I felt his pain and asked him to join me for lunch so we could figure out his next step. Over lunch I asked him how he was feeling. Frustrated, concerned, worried, and wondering if he would find work were some of the emotions. He did everything you are taught to do when looking for a job. He had called everyone he knew, went on line to see what jobs were posted, sent resumes everywhere, but to no avail. Well, my first step was to change his attitude. Because feeling the way he was feeling was not going to help him one bit. Then I asked him where the opportunity was in this challenge? How could he turn it around so that his next position was perfect and soon? By the time we were done he had the beginnings of a great plan which if he follows through (which knowing him I believe he will) could give him his own business, that he would love, with the potential to earn oodles of money. I also told him to get the book “The Success Principles” by Jack Canfield to help him bring his plan to fruition. Which brings me to the basic concept which is: “Where is the opportunity in every challenge that you have?” Remember the right attitude is a big part of succeeding.

With the economy being what it is today every industry is fighting for survival and the fashion industry is no exception. Fashion is the only industry where styles go “out” of fashion and then they come back “in”. In a sense it is a very volatile and fickle industry. And in to this whirlpool of movement and the ins and the outs of fashion came The Recession.

With this economic scenario what is a person to do? Jobs are essential as more often than not, based on the take-home people are paying off mortgages, credit debts and loans. All your regular tried and tested ways of getting another job when the job market is so tight are sometimes in vain. You would really then need to sit back and take a long hard look at your methods and come up with something where you get a job and one that you enjoy that meets your career expectations.

Finding a job during recession need not mean you have to compromise to an extent you feel you are short changing yourself. It just means you have to find a way to get a foot in the almost closed door and make it open for you. Employers are now looking to boost their revenue potential and one way you could present yourself as a potential candidate is to focus on companies that are still growing. If your resume highlights your successes rather than your oh-so long list of qualifications then you stand a better chance at getting the second call. “Over-qualified” is a curse during recession because the more your degrees and diplomas the more prospective employers feel you are looking for a large pay package. Don’t forget, people are still buying clothes, shoes, handbags whatever just not as much. The fashion industry cannot come to a grinding halt we just have to continue wading their way through the recession period so cost cutting is paramount in our thinking.

You want that job and you want that the employers should notice your resume among the thousands they receive. Don’t fall in to the old trap of sending out a standard resume to a large number of companies. Doing this means you have given all companies an open invite to your resume thereby negating its potential value and you are commoditizing yourself. Your resume needs to stand out.

Jamie Varon 23, had her heart set on working at Twitter. She already applied for a position on the companies website. She had asked a friend at Google to put a good word in for her. She even showed up at the company’s web site with a bag of cookies in an effort to charm the recruiter into meeting with her. All to no avail. What she did next was sheer brilliance. She created a web site called twittershouldhireme.coom which included her resume and recommendations plus a blog which detailed her quest. Within 24 hours the company contacted her and she had a meeting set up at Twitter. She also received two job offers from other tech companies that had noticed her site. Talk about thinking outside the box. This is the kind of thinking you need to do in order to stand out from the crowd.

Your first move should be to make a list of what kind of job you really want. Design the job in your head. Than write down what it looks like down to the details of what you will be doing each day, how you will dress, and what you will be paid. Don’t let fear take over. By taking time off to detail what you are looking for you are giving yourself a vision of what your next job is. Than start looking at companies that fit the bill. Once you have narrowed them down to the top 15 – 20 companies, next start your campaign to find a job in those companies. Again be creative, look for companies that are doing well and growing. There is always someone doing good business in every kind of economy.

Four years ago I found myself unemployed. The division I ran for 17 years was being closed and there wasn’t another position being offered. This was a crushing blow as I thought of this company as my home. While I was incredibly upset on the day it happened the next day I found myself excited by the possibilities. Wow, I could reinvent myself. Four years later I have an even better position as President of a major celebrity brand with a very successful company making more money than at my previous company. Again having the right attitude is a major part of the process.

The next step is your resume. Seek help from professional resume writers. Remember if you reveal everything about you in the resume then you are giving the reader an open invite to make snap decisions. Matters are complicated enough what with your resume having to clear three levels in one go, the junior HR recruiter who is working on key words, the next level manager who is looking for experience and skills and finally the actual recruitment person who has to ensure you are the right foot for the shoe. A sluggish economy requires that your resume must fit every framework. Be exact and not vague in detailing your eligibility. They are looking for people who can think on their feet and offer viable solutions not general ideas.

Your aim is to let your prospective employer know you are flexible, your experience can only bring positive results to your new job, you are able to read situations, take required action and get positive results whenever the need arises. If you feel you can start at a lower salary for a short period on the condition that you will get an increment when the economy settles, be open to it. This indicates your willingness to adjust to the constraints the company is facing. It is always more important to take the best position than the most money as that is what will make your career more successful. In the fashion industry there are always people jumping from job to job with no staying power. Those peoples career always self destructs eventually. You need a home not just a paycheck. The money always comes as you grow in your career.

Now you have the interview. What are the next steps? You need to sell yourself in the interview the same way you would sell any product. Make a presentation on how you would benefit the company and fulfill their needs. Do your research. Know the company, know the job and it’s requirements and than show how your experience and strengths would solve their challenges. Show examples of how you have done this in the past. Be open and friendly in an interview and do not bring up any negative points. Do not tell them how hard it is to find a job, do not trash your old company or boss. Be very positive. Prospective employers want to work with pleasant people. I always wonder about negative people and have never hired one. I look for people who really want the job but are not desperate for the job.

Getting a job during recession is not an impossible task. All it requires is a little effort on your part, a little patience and some clear ideas on how you can bring opportunity to your doorstep.

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Tips to Choose the Best Oil & Gas Industry Jobs

The oil and gas industry jobs are available aplenty even with the recession making inroads into this enormously successful and lucrative career landscape. And being a vast and an oft uncharted territory for most of the elite of the recruitment seekers, the oil & gas job search is often sans the cut-throat rivalry that is now pre-dominant in most other job arenas.

However, this does not make the road to making a career in this domain a cakewalk. Most of the interviewees either do not have an idea about how to search for jobs in this particular industry, or do not have the soft-skill or prowess to make it through an interview in the said sector.

Here are 5 tips to help you out in locating and attaining an oil & gas industry job in a jiffy!

1.Identify the Entry Level You might be a graduate from an elitist college, but if you are willing to work in the oil and gas industry jobs, you need to work from the bottom rung and upwards from there. This is important because only then would you be able to handle managerial positions well- with the basic entities of the domain at your command.

2.Experience Experience is a huge factor in gaining a foothold in your oil and gas job search. The more experience you have working on oil rigs or offshore platforms, the better are your chances to locate a high-paid job from the industry. For freshmen, it is better to work and gain valuable experience at the junior levels being trying their luck further up the corporate ladder.

3.Use References Again, experience counts and also helps in making acquaintances that may help ply your case to the top management. Remember, the oil and gas industry jobs are all pretty elusive but can be pretty easy to achieve with the help of well-placed & well-informed references.

4.Stay Up-to-date About the Latest News from the Sector Knowledge is power practical or theoretical, or both! The more you know of the latest trends in the oil and gas industry jobs, the higher are your chances of making the cut in the interviews. This also includes some very hands-on research and banter with people already working on rigs or platforms offshore.

5.Focus on the Positives Remember, it is easy to highlight the negatives and shy away from the said industry. However, if you focus on the positives, you will find yourself better placed to answer HR questions thrown at you during the interview. This includes high-points like better pay, perks as well as an easy and quick climb to the top managerial positions if you are smart enough!

So you see, getting the coveted oil & gas industry job is not as tough as it is made out to be. However, it is no cakewalk either and preparation & knowing is half the battle won.

Automotive Industry- Hot Jobs For The Future!

If you are fascinated by cars then you should definitely check out jobs for future in the automobile industry. Today the employment rate is reaching all time highs, and at the same time security for jobs has become a priority for many people. The Automotive service industry has lots of opportunities for those who are interested in hands-on service-oriented career.

Jobs within the automotive industry are extremely different. It all depends on which section would you like to enter that defines the kind of jobs to choose for. To be clearer, there are two major sectors that divide the automotive industry. One is those who work in the manufacture, development and sales of new car, and the other one is those involved in the after sales garage industries.

Both can be fruitful areas to enter, especially the second one as there are majority of people who lack the real mechanical knowledge so your skill with the engine is often needed by many.

Automotive mechanic jobs within the car manufacturing industry have a wide scope and are not necessarily defined by the engineering qualifications. However, right training is essential and beneficial for those who have completed a technical degree. It is because the automotive industry is increasingly becoming technological and sophisticated, so proper training is considered important.

The automotive industry offers jobs that appeal to wide range of interests and options for development exist in abundance for those with the right training. Jobs in the automotive industry range from mechanics job to automotive service manager jobs. There are also opportunities for the individuals to specialize in any specific area such as engine repair, dent repair, detailing or customer service. The list does not end here.

One of the promising areas of specialization in the automotive industry is in diesel engine repair and service. According to the reports of The Department of Labor, the diesel engine auto technician jobs are expected to grow by coming 2016. There has been a steady rise in the usage of diesel engine vehicles, as more buses and trucks are utilized to ship goods across the country. And the experts predict that with the rise of diesel engines in trucks and buses and also with the increasing passengers, vehicles will contribute new jobs in the field.

Another area that offers a complete new distinction of impact in moving sales and assists is the big growth of alternative render vehicles. Faced with great pressure to reduce the dependency on gas and reduce emissions, today most automobile producers are on the fast track to offer electric car and hybrids.

Therefore alternative render vehicles open up a whole new area of automotive jobs. For the graduates who have had a proper training in hybrid engine maintenance, electric car can give interesting career opportunities and long-term job security.