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23July2008

What Kind of Jobs You Can Expect from an MBA Degree

Posted by Raymond Lam under: Business.

Gone are the days when entrepreneurs used to learn business on the job. This was the most prevalent way of getting business education, though informal. There are numerous successful entrepreneurs who succeeded in business field without any formal business education.

One can learn business on the job as has been demonstrated by a large number of businessmen. That route takes longer and is fraught with uncertainties. With the complexities of modern business, business education has now been formalized. In order to do business, it is necessary that one should be conversant with so many business practices. Any business is now interdependent on other national and international factors. Formal business learning is now necessary in order to understand business environment as a whole.

It is not very easy to get an MBA job that allows an MBA degree holder to use his or her acquired skills and abilities. However, there are a number of ways to make use of your MBA. Networking, MBA career placement services, headhunters or executive recruitment, and internet sites with MBA jobs are four main approaches that assist you to get an MBA job. About 70% of MBA jobs are never advertised and are usually filled through internal appointments. So, to get a job in a particular post or organization the job seeker will have to build a good network with many talented individuals.

Business schools with MBA career placement services organize MBA job fairs and maintain active links with reputed business organizations. These allow the students to get a better understanding about these business jobs and help them to search for a good career. Executive recruitment services collect your details and help you to search for a job that you actually want. Another job search strategy is to surf the Internet sites advertising MBA vacancies. WorkTree is a complete job portal which holds up-to-date MBA vacancies as they become available.

MBA grads most commonly work in the following fields: *Accounting *Consulting *Finance *General Management *Human Resources *Marketing *Sales

23July2008

Can Organic Skin Care Products Stop You Ageing?

Posted by Taroon Shah under: Health-Beauty.

Growing old gracefully is no longer a maxim we are satisfied with. A year later and another wrinkle. Increasingly in a capitalist, commercial world, we want to live longer, but not in the traditional sense of growing old and living longer.

In some way we all aim to redeem our youthful features whether it’s our faces or our bodies. Many people agonise over creeping wrinkles and crows feet. And lines around our eyes are an age giveaway to the opposite sex. So is it looking to the organic skincare for more natural, longer lasting alternatives?

Women are probably the biggest consumers of anti-ageing creams, moisturisers and cleansers and the plethora of skin care products available. Magazines and TV adverts play on the national consciousness and make us feel we need to look young to be beautiful. Glossy womens’ weeklies or the classier monthly mags plaster screaming headlines about the latest celebrity to slip under the knife or going for a botox top-up.

Anti-ageing skincare has become big business. Euromonitor, found that the UK facial skincare market was worth 751m in 2005, growing to a massive 71% since 1997. The fastest growing category is anti-ageing products, which together with regular moisturisers account for 61.7% of total market sales.

Skin care companies long criticised for focussing on younger women, now have older role models to be the face of their products. Dior recently signed 47 year old actress Sharon Stone for a new advertising campaign for its anti-ageing line Capture and Estee Lauder has re-engaged Karen Graham, erstwhile model and spokeswoman for Resilience Lift.

Organic anti-aging skin care is yet to make its debut but there are a few secrets the organic skin care user should know. More than one in five new products over the past year in the UK claim to be either all natural, have botanical/herbal ingredients, no additives or preservatives, this represents a big increase from 180 in 2004, compared to 928 in 2005. Which anti-ageing products are the best? Anti-ageing products receive rave reviews for the amount of peptides, fruit acids, antioxidants or Coenzyme Q10 and Retinol which is basically vitamin A. Pay up to 229 for a 30ml pot of the La Prarie Range, but according to the latest scientific study from the US on beauty-counter anti-ageing products, expensive products are not the best. The best performing anti-ageing product is actually the considerably cheaper Olay Regenerist, 16 for a 30ml pot.

There are a few organic, natural anti-ageing products on the market. Ren’s Glycolactic Skin Renewal Peel Mask is good for brightening dull or mature skin and decongesting blemish-prone skin but it’s probably not suitable for very sensitive skin. Plante System Intensive Anti-Wrinkle Cream is from a French organic range new to the UK. IT features an antioxidant-rich plant complex and lily extract which plumps the skin and works against age spots. It’s also paraben free and certified by Ecocert, the French organic body. For those worried about ageing, a trip to the a good beauty expert will set you back about 100 but at least you will get a proper consultation and most people would leave with a bag of samples to try at home.

Neal Yard’s Organic Beauty Oil is an excellent age-defying oil too. Drizzle over your porridge or your salad and take it internally or apply onto your skin. This beauty oil is packed with nourishing omega fatty acids, essential nutrients and anti-oxidants that encourage the skin to regenerate naturally itself. According to the women’s magazine, Easy Living, Neal Yard’s skin-nourishing oils is the only thing that worked for one of the team’s persistent eczema.

For those not in the know, the rose or Argan oil is best for anti-ageing. For centuries Argan has been a well-kept secret known only to Berber women in Morocco who use it to nourish their skin, hair and nails. Argans’ anti-ageing properties, due to high levels of Vitamin E and saponins (which soften the skin) are well documented. It helps to reduce wrinkles by restoring the skin’s water lipid layer and it also cools and soothes inflammation. Its ant-oxidant properties contribute to the neutralization of free radicals, particularly useful in the polluted Western hemisphere. It helps cool skin that has been exposed to wind and the sun and also protects it in cold weather.

23July2008

Travel Blogs Can Give You Insider Tips

Posted by Stuart Russell under: Travel.

If you too are among those who don’t expect travel companies and agents to be completely honest with you, then travel blogs are what you should check out. Since tour agents and travel companies take extra steps to convince a person how good a particular destination is, travel blogs can provide you the real details.

Travel blog posts are done by those who travel and have seen many cites and countries. These blogs are written and maintained by people who know what it’s all about.

When you are travelling, knowing the facts is very important. Most travellers are unaware of visa regulations, health requirements, customs restrictions and other such important factors which prevent a person from entering a country. Sometimes, travellers must be well-prepared for conditions in a country, especially if the atmosphere is completely different to where they come from. Travel blogs are an excellent place to find out all about different destinations in their real form, because they are provided as tips and reviews, rather than teasers.

Travel blogs might focus on one area, such as news or guides related to travel destinations, or keep the posts different each day, with various topics. Discussions, commentaries, images, videos and recommendations are commonly found in travel blogs.

The majority of blogs are there to provide updated and correct information about different destinations. These blogs are extremely useful for travellers, particularly when they offer valuable information on good airlines, car rentals, hotels, nightlife spots, restaurants and sightseeing etc.

Quite often, readers can depend on travel blogs to be recent and accurate, but before you believe anything that’s said in it, take some measures to find out if the author is credible. Some unscrupulous tourism companies publish their own blogs to promote their services through this method and it’s often undetectable at a glance.

If you read through and realise a blog post sounds too good to be true, it probably is. Every travel destination has its pros and cons, so failing to mention the negative aspects is a good indicator for a blog you shouldn’t trust.

People who are planning trips to other countries can benefit the most from travel blogs. There are a lot of cultural aspects to consider when you are travelling away from your home country. What is acceptable behaviour in your country may not be so in the country you are travelling to. You will want to know this information before you head off on your trip. You want a highly accurate and well written travel blog to give you the information you need on your travels.