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The Effects of Global Terrorism on the Events Industry

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Many people consider the impacts on industries that are directly related to the terrorist actions, such as the insurance industry. However, few consider the impact on an industry such as the events industry. While some people may not be able to see a link to the events industry as strongly as to an industry such as the airline industry, it is there. While there are many different types of events they all have some aspects in common. They all need attendees in order to occur or at least occur more than once. In order for an event to be successful people need to be drawn to the event and motivated to attend. There are many different factors that can persuade people to attend an event, but one of the main factors is whether they can get to the location of the event.

The ability to travel to an event for any attendee has now been seen to be endangered by Global terrorism. This is especially felt in regard to air travel since the tragic events in New York in 2001 which have lead to such huge changes throughout the world. People no longer feel as confident traveling to other countries on airplanes and as therefore less likely to attend events that require them to make use of that form of transport. Other forms of transport are also perceived as dangerous to use when traveling to an event in different areas of the world. This then limits the number of people who are willing to travel to a particular event, in particular well known people who may fear that they will be targeted during their journey to an event.

Global terrorisms effects may not be overtly visible, but they have lead to a curtailment of a completely carefree way of life. Many people can also fear to attend an event as it may be a magnet for terrorists who wish to make a statement by disrupting the event. The disrupting of a particular event due to the forces of global terrorism can take many forms. These forms could include protesting particular actions of parties associated of the event. Otherwise it could take the more dangerous form of violently targeting parties attending the event. This has lead to many people avoiding any event where many people are gathered or where subjects related to the event are seen as controversial by terrorist organizations.

Different events may carry a different level of risk for people attending them so a meeting of government agencies may be far more likely to be targeted than a musical event in a park. The importance or perceived importance of a particular event can also determine whether it could be targeted. The thought of being targeted by global terrorism is enough to prevent people from attending any event, which has lead to a great decline of many different types of events that may previously been well attended, particularly by people who are not local to the area. This has lead to a direct link between declining fortunes of the events industry and global terrorism.

Careers – Entering the KPO Industry

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After riding a successful wave of BPO, now India seems to be all set to repeat and achieve the same feat in the KPO industry also. The industry which came in to reckoning in early part of 2000 is currently witnessing exponential growth with CAGR (Cumulative Annual Growth Rate) of 21% and is expected to provide employment opportunities to about 250,000 professionals in India by 2010.

With more than 3,000,000 students graduating from about 200 Universities and 10,000 colleges in India, KPO provides an outstanding opportunity for an excellent career path. A KPO job not only provides for excellent remuneration, but also provides international business exposure and tremendous learning and development opportunities for skill development. At the moment key areas within KPO industry lies in the domain of Business Research, Legal Support, Market Research, Financial, and Investment Analysis. Although, KPO provides significant opportunities to all kinds of graduates; but offers even better opportunities to Finance graduates including MBAs, Lawyers, CFAs, M.Com, and CAs.

Graduates, pondering over possible opportunities within this sector need to introspect themselves and evaluate their key skills and personality fit. A career in KPO may attract graduates from compensation and growth point of view, but is one that is immensely challenging and requires well polished attributes for success. Even though there are a number of KPO jobs available in the industry, but still landing in the most appropriate profile and company could be a significant challenge for the applicant.

To succeed in getting a suitable job in the KPO segment, one needs to do gap analysis of the pre-requisites of job profile and self-competency. This would not only include testing ones analytical capabilities through quantitative and data interpretation techniques, but also taking psychometric tests to evaluate personality and key attributes to survive in the KPO industry. Reaching out for professional help or career consulting could be one of the ways to prepare for such techniques. Not only this, a number of KPOs evaluates job fit candidates based on case interviews either discussed in a group or one-on-one basis. Apart from that, a precisely written resume in a professional manner and cover letter briefing your key competencies significantly increases job seekers chances of selection in an interview process. A professional guidance in this regard could be more than helpful for preparing a career path in the KPO industry.

About KPOPlacements.com: KPOPlacements.com website is meant for providing Human Resource solutions aiming exclusively for the knowledge process outsourcing industry. It is an exclusive KPO and LPO industry focused job site that offers simplified solutions for recruiters and jobseekers. This website/portal has been result of our in-depth Need Analysis of companies operating in the domain of knowledge outsourcing industry. We at KPOPlacements.com are committed towards the interests of all the stakeholders job aspirants as well as the industry, clients. Abiding by our values of trust, integrity and excellence, we seek to secure the best opportunities for you.

Finding a Music Industry Professional

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Lets face it shall we, finding a music industry professional is as simple as taking a trip to Los Angeles, New York City or Nashville and heading to the lairs where they work and hang out. That can however be rather cost prohibitive unless you happen to be geographically located close to a city that has the resources you need.

Luckily the World Wide Web has made it a snap to visit the far corners of the globe and choose from a pool of talented folks that you could not even dream about otherwise. It is simply a matter these days of figuring out the need that you have and going on line and finding someone with the skill to fulfill that need.

You can find anything from a musician to a producer to a mastering facility and never leave your bedroom. In fact, you can do it without even getting dressed. How is that for convenient? You can have the proverbial brainstorm at 2 in the morning and get on the Internet and find the solution as quickly as a few moments later.

Places like myMusicCircle have made this portion of trying to locate a music industry professional as easy as getting a dish of ice cream from the freezer. If you are on a search engine such as Google, for example, and type in a music-related key word. You never know what or whom you are going to pull up. It could be a legitimate music pro. It could be stripper. It might even be someone from a foreign country just there to rip you off.

There is a fairly good chance that if you are on a site that caters to the music industry professional, that you are not going to find anything there other than what you are after. The people that frequent and use the site and the site administrators would put an end to that quickly.

So the next time you are in need of a music industry professional for one reason or another, point your browser to a site that actually caters to the exact need that you have and quit wasting time looking over the millions of non-related hits at some other locations.

Your time is valuable and you have none of it to waste sifting through the plethora of miscellaneous non-entities out there that wouldnt know a music industry professional if he slapped them across the face.

Indonesia Insurance Industry – Overview, Trends, Prospects And Swot Analysis

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Emerging Markets Direct (EMD) released their latest Indonesia Insurance Industry Report 2H10. The report says that Indonesia insurance industry is a very attractive and largely untapped market. As of 2008, the country was home to more than 210mn people while the number of insured people was 16.48mn, which implied that only less than 10% had life insurance. Seen in this light, foreign insurance companies had entered into joint ventures with local companies due to the low market penetration rate and the policies set by the Indonesia government.

Next to India and China, Indonesia is definitely one of the insurance markets in Asia with huge growth potential. The Indonesia insurance sector consists of a number of players. As of end 2009, there were 283 companies in Indonesia owning insurance business licenses. There were no much changes made to the number of life, non-life, reinsurance, social insurance program and workers social security, and insurance for civil servants and armed forced companies as compared with 2008. There were even no new insurance companies over the past 5 years due to the relatively high minimum equity of IDR100bn set by the government.

Over the past 5 years, total assets and total investments of the insurance industry as a whole have risen, especially for the reinsurance sector which saw the highest growth rate y-o-y of 21.79% for total investments and total assets. Net premium for non-life insurance and reinsurance has been rising since 2006, from IDR 8,147bn to IDR11,810bn in 2008.

Despite the vulnerability of the Indonesia Insurance industry to natural disaster, the overall industry ratio of gross claims to gross premiums was still manageable. It was recorded that the ratio varied from 48% to 61% in 2008. Whats more, a major part of risks covered by local insurers was ceded to offshore reinsurance company. In recent years, the retention ratio (measured by net written premium to gross written premium) was very conservative and ranged from 34% to 54%. Indonesias insurance industry suffered from deficit transaction, in this regard, our analyst thought that consolidation was vital for insurance companies to strengthen their capital base in order to stay competitive.

What are the market trends and outlook of the Indonesia Insurance Industry? How did the issuance of Indonesian Insurance Architecture (Roadmap) affect the industry? How many insurers licenses were revoked as a result of the minimum solvency requirement specified by the Ministry of Finance? What are the prospects of Takaful (Islamic insurance) in Indonesia? What were the requirements set by the Ministry of Finance (MoF) for foreign insurers to enter the Indonesian market?

Want to have an overview and competitive analysis(SWOT) of the major industry players?
-PT Asuransi Allianz Utama Indonesia(Allianz)
-PT Asuransi Sinar Mas (Sinar Mas)
-PT Panin Life Tbk(Panin)

Check our pages to see more details about our latest Indonesia Insurance Industry Report:
http://www.emergingmarketsdirect.com/products/Indonesia-Insurance-Industry.html

Table of Content
1. Industry Profile
1.1 Sector Overview
1.2 Sector Size and Value
1.2.1 Insurance Companies
1.2.2 Total Assets and Investments
1.3 Sector Performance
1.3.1 Gross Premiums and Claims
1.3.2 Non-Life Insurance and Reinsurance Net Premium
1.3.3 Industry Retention Rate
2. Market Trends and Outlook
2.1 Regulatory Issues
2.2 Sharia Products
2.3 Foreign insurers
3. Leading Players and Comparative Matrix
3.1 Leading Players
3.1.1 PT. Asuransi Allianz Utama Indonesia
3.1.2 PT. Asuransi Sinar Mas
3.1.3 PT. Panin Life Tbk
3.2 Comparative Matrix
3.3 SWOT Analysis

4. Tables and Charts
Table 1: Life Insurance No. of Insured People 1998 2008
Table 2: Insurers Licenses Revoked 2005
Table 3: Financial Summary 2007 – 2009
Table 4: Financial Highlights FY09
Chart 1: Inflation Trend of Indonesia Oct 2008 Oct 2010
Chart 2: Number of Insurance Companies 2004 – 2008
Chart 3: Growth of Total Assets According to Line of Business 2004 – 2008
Chart 4: Total Assets for the Year 2008
Chart 5: Growth of Total Investments According to Line of Business 2004 2008
Chart 6: Total Investments for the Year 2008
Chart 7: Growth of Total Assets Compared to Total Investment 2004 – 2008
Chart 8: Types of Investments
Chart 9: Growth of Gross Premiums According to Line of Business 2004 – 2008
Chart 10: Percentage of Gross Premiums for the Year 2008
Chart 11: Growth of Gross Claims According to Line of Business 2004 2008
Chart 12: Percentage of Gross Claims According to Line of Business
Chart 13: Growth of Gross Claims and Gross Premiums 2004 – 2008
Chart 14: Non-Life Insurance and Reinsurance Net Premium 2006 – 2008
Chart 15: Retention Rate 1996 – 2008
Chart 16: Sinar Mas – Total Shareholders Equity 2005 – 2009
Chart 17: Sinar Mas – Surplus Solvency Margin 2005 – 2009
Chart 18: Gross Premium Income 2005 – 2009
Chart 19: Total Investments Income 2005 2009

About Emerging Markets Direct

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Industry’s Need For Plaster Builders Rubble Bags In Bulk

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Almost every industry will be in search of a suitable vendor for plaster builders rubble bags, because waste by-products for, every industry, is too bulky, to fit into thin plastic bags, even if they are large in size. If industries are not able to manage waste appropriately, they may be fined or are liable under law, and earn bad reputation as a result. An industry would not risk, being marked with bad reputation, at any cost.

Any industry, which has earned its name with its clients, will want to retain its crown of being best host and a responsible host, and hence, makes sure that waste management is up to the mark. If it is a start up industry, then it would not risk earning, a bad name and go down, as soon as it began its business. This is why, every attention is paid to have enough stock of plaster builders rubble bags for handling waste easily, by a start up industry.

An industry owner, of current times, is clever, in that he or she ensures that good amount of research is done before choosing any vendor or dealer for their raw materials, tools or waste management or plaster builders rubble bags, and maximize on profits without compromising on quality. Even a small aspect like choosing a vendor for plaster builders rubble bags is given deep search and study, for cheap deals available. Teams are constituted for this study and results are reported in a systematic manner.

Industry is a huge organization, and for its smooth running, needs are also huge, making it necessary for choosing a dealer who is able to provide constant supply of raw materials, tools and all other accessories required. Although plaster builders rubble bags are small things, efficient industry owners are always keeping an eye on, minute aspects as these.

Industries that are into food processing or clothing, construction, or refinery, will always, produce waste in bulk. Shifting raw materials or waste from an industry or simply packaging material, that needs heavy duty bags, will always need plaster builders rubble bags.

Hence an industry will be buying bulk orders regularly from a chosen vendor dealing in rubble bags. There are many vendors online, who are ready to offer bulk orders at very low prices, finding the appropriate one, needs, only small amount of research.

For finding right kind of vendors, one may use, classified websites online, and contact them for further quotes. Or, simply search online for, cheap plaster builders rubble bags, to find many web links to vendor websites. But, checking the vendor’s authenticity by visiting the manufacturer or dealer in person is also good practice, because once a reliable vendor is found, all they have to do is, finish paper work, for contract based supply or choose an appropriate method of supply and pay, that is suitable to both parties.

It is always good to choose plaster builders rubble bags made from polymers(recycled), for they can be recycled again. It is easier to manage waste along with being environment friendly. To do so, choosing the right material is very important.