SWOT Analysis of Rebekah:
Strengths- intellectual, diligent, open-minded, flexible, work well with others, creative, articulate.
Weaknesses- negative thinking/stress easily, need order and structure to some extent.
Opportunity- the fashion and textile industry has many different avenues to pursue employment in, and hopefully my minors and eventual graduate degree will boost me ahead of some competition.
Threats- The industry is a international one, and at this point all i am fluent in is English which could be a set back. Also, many jobs are being sent over seas due to lower costs or replaced with new technology.
this is an self-analysis as far as employment in the industry is considered.
Sunday, January 27, 2008
Thursday, January 24, 2008
Blog assignment 1- Personal Mission Statement: Rebekah Bailey
I, Rebekah Bailey, am a twenty year old undergraduate student striving toward a degree in consumer, apparel, and retail studies with a minor in business and art history. All the while working as a children's studio art instructor and for an organization for the mentally handicapped, and coordinating a youth group through my church. I plan to continue my education further after completing my under graduate studies by attending grad school for textile development and taking extra classes to become fluent in Spanish.
My ultimate goals are to work for a textile development company to help advance the industry and to make a difference. I also hope to become a wife and mother, and continue my activity within the church.
All this will be brought into fruition by solid work ethic, extreme patience and well rounded time management.
I, Rebekah Bailey, am a twenty year old undergraduate student striving toward a degree in consumer, apparel, and retail studies with a minor in business and art history. All the while working as a children's studio art instructor and for an organization for the mentally handicapped, and coordinating a youth group through my church. I plan to continue my education further after completing my under graduate studies by attending grad school for textile development and taking extra classes to become fluent in Spanish.
My ultimate goals are to work for a textile development company to help advance the industry and to make a difference. I also hope to become a wife and mother, and continue my activity within the church.
All this will be brought into fruition by solid work ethic, extreme patience and well rounded time management.
Thursday, January 17, 2008
WEEK ONE of RCS 261:
Noelle Crist and I (Rebekah Bailey), will be combining our efforts to make this blog each week throughout the semester. This week, so far we have been discussing the topics of advertising, online shopping, discount retailing, sweat shops and various other issues. Noelle and I furthered our discussion outside of class on the idea of sweat shops , and the possibilities of different outcomes that would result from different hypothetical changes made.
We are both "pro-sweat shops" in the sense that without the income that those workers receive, no matter how small, they would be worse off without because there are little to no alternative for them. We do think the conditions of the shops could be addressed and made more pleasing for these laborers and probably at a seemingly small increase to the end apparel cost. If there was say a 2% tax increase to go to the revitalization of these work conditions, that money would add up quick as a whole and provide a decent fund to start with, yet the consumers would not suffer great price increases. Say a gap shirt costs $30, with a price increase of 2% the consumer is only paying 60 cents more, but after adding up every one of those sweaters sold times 60 cents adds up quick!
After these hypothetical renovations to work conditions in the sweat shops took place, this small taxation could go to increasing the actual wages of the workers. We realize this wouldn't completely solve or resolve the issues at hand, but we do think that it's a start, and we've got to start somewhere if we want to make a change.
Noelle Crist and I (Rebekah Bailey), will be combining our efforts to make this blog each week throughout the semester. This week, so far we have been discussing the topics of advertising, online shopping, discount retailing, sweat shops and various other issues. Noelle and I furthered our discussion outside of class on the idea of sweat shops , and the possibilities of different outcomes that would result from different hypothetical changes made.
We are both "pro-sweat shops" in the sense that without the income that those workers receive, no matter how small, they would be worse off without because there are little to no alternative for them. We do think the conditions of the shops could be addressed and made more pleasing for these laborers and probably at a seemingly small increase to the end apparel cost. If there was say a 2% tax increase to go to the revitalization of these work conditions, that money would add up quick as a whole and provide a decent fund to start with, yet the consumers would not suffer great price increases. Say a gap shirt costs $30, with a price increase of 2% the consumer is only paying 60 cents more, but after adding up every one of those sweaters sold times 60 cents adds up quick!
After these hypothetical renovations to work conditions in the sweat shops took place, this small taxation could go to increasing the actual wages of the workers. We realize this wouldn't completely solve or resolve the issues at hand, but we do think that it's a start, and we've got to start somewhere if we want to make a change.
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