Before You Land in Dubai: Essential Tips for Job Seekers

Pre-Travel Guide for UAE Job Seekers: Strategic Preparation for Success

1. The ideal times to visit the UAE for job searching are from February to May and from September to December.

2. It is advisable to go with a 2-month visit visa (which will cost you between AED 600 to AED 850 depending on your travel agency) but if your travel agent warns you that there are chances that your visa application may be rejected (especially since March 2020 due to COVID 19 Local govt has imposed restrictions on international flights and visas issuance several times) then apply for 1-month visit visa as it will cost you less (between AED 350 – AED 550 depending on your travel agency). One month visit visa can be extended to 2 months later while staying inside the country (subject to extra charges avg. AED 500 for an inside country status change). As of today, a visit or tourist visa can be extended a couple of times while staying inside the country.

3. Prior to departure, plan or budget your trip and bring enough money to cover expenses such as visa fees, airfare, living expenses, local transportation, etc.

4. Try to search online for fellow professionals (if you don’t have relatives/friends in UAE) and hire a room/bed space with them if possible.

5. Get your degrees/professional certificates attested by the relevant authorities in your home country before arriving in UAE and once you have arrived then attest your degrees/professional certificates from the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs office as well. 

6. To save money, bring your daily necessities from home rather than purchasing them in the UAE (such as a blanket or towel).

7. Try to move to the UAE early in your career (after completing your studies) with adequate abilities because prior work experience from your home country typically carries less weight in the UAE.

8. Your chances of landing a job will rise if you are proficient in Microsoft Office (especially Excel and PowerPoint) and ERP software (SAP, Oracle, Microsoft Dynamics, QuickBooks, Tally, Peachtree, Sage, etc). You can focus on software or skills relevant to your industry if the above is irrelevant.

9.  Must carry your laptop and relevant accessories while traveling to UAE.

10. Try to connect with as many professionals as you can before arriving in the UAE through LinkedIn, WhatsApp, Twitter, Facebook, etc. Your professional network is important to your career, and personal contacts in the UAE may be the most important factor in helping you land your first job in the market (perhaps, total dependence on relatives and friends is definitely not a good idea).

11. Start creating your profile on well-known job search portals and websites like Bayt, Dubizzle, Gulf Talent, Naukri Gulf, BAC Middle East, Hays, Charterhouse, Michael Page, LinkedIn, Indeed, etc. at least two (2) months before your arrival.

12. Create a succinct, professional CV that is 1 to 3 pages long depending on your level of expertise, and if at all possible, try to include references from the UAE. You should save a few copies of your resume from your hometown along with some A4-sized plain white envelopes. Always have it prepared to give to any prospective employers, recruiters, or contacts. Keep a few of your passport-size photos on hand as well in case you need to utilize them. Save time and do it before taking off.

13. Explore your industry’s best players in UAE, visit their websites and search for professionals working in those organizations where you intended to join. Start a conversation with them and try to build affiliation to make an appointment (LinkedIn is the best place to develop such contacts).

14. Preferably, try to fix at least 5 to 6 prospective meetings prior to departing for UAE.

15. Try to familiarize yourself with UAE laws and regulations that are pertinent to your job function (for example, for accountants and financial experts, the UAE Labor Law, VAT and imports Law, etc).

16. Keep a soft copy of your resume or curriculum vitae on your phone or other mobile device so you may share it quickly if someone requests for it.

17. In short, planning (before traveling to Dubai) is the key to landing a successful career in UAE.

 

"IF YOU DON'T PLAN, YOU PLAN TO FAIL," they say.

Other Job Seekers Tips post arrival in UAE

1. Get a sim as soon as you arrive in the UAE, then register your WhatsApp account using the UAE number.

2. Change your location on LinkedIn and Facebook etc. 

3. Put your status open to work on LinkedIn.

4. Use WhatsApp, LinkedIn messaging, etc. to simply inform your circle that you are looking for a job in the UAE on a visit visa.

5. Connect with Hiring managers and your co-professionals on LinkedIn.

6. Do recommend others whenever you are not a qualified applicant for a position or have received multiple offers.

7. Join WhatsApp groups for job seekers, participate in them, and help out whenever possible.

8. Plan your every day, get ready early in the morning, and divide your day into at least three activities: i) Online application
ii) Networking
iii) Skills development. 

9. Write your desired jobs on Google on a daily basis and through the tools bar select the timeline of posted jobs like 24 hours then apply to recent ones.

10. Must know about each and every word of your CV and prepare of possible questions that can be asked based on your CV. 

11. Mention important information on the front of your CV like expected job role, education, contact details, skills, visa Status, and experience. 

12. Contact and inform all your friends about your stay in UAE, share your CV, and take information from relevant persons.

13. Be patient and have trust in Allah because He has a better plan for everyone so keep trying for a Job till the last day of your stay in UAE.

14. Create a support network of your friends & professionals, share experiences with others, and use all channels for job applications.

15. Prepare the interview through YouTube tutorials.

16. Write questions for each interview and search for the appropriate answers to questions by reading and discussing with other relevant persons.

17. Always use a complete degree name like Chartered Accountant (Finalist) not use CA Finalist. 

18. In response to the expected salary question from the interviewer, ask about their budget and then give a range showing flexibility.

19. Download the 2GIS App from the Google Play Store. It can operate without an internet connection and will direct you to the locations of all businesses in the UAE.

20. Send a thank you email after the interview by getting a business card during an interview from the interviewer.

21. Keep strong follow-up of interview

22. Call at 800-60 for any assistance regarding UAE labor laws.

23. Call to Road Transport Authority (RTA) at 8009-090 to help with local transport services.

24. Try to stay near any metro station in Dubai during the visit for easy and convenient movement.

Best of  Luck🤞

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Top quotes to relieve Stress/Tension

 

أهم الاقتباسات لتخفيف التوتر

There will be days when you'll feel absolutely stressed out, regardless of who you are, what you do, or how happy you think you are.

Everybody experiences stress at some point in their lives because it is an inevitable aspect of living. That said, it still isn't any simpler! When you're under a lot of stress, it might be difficult to envision a way out. Stress can feel overwhelming.

Sometimes, all you truly need to get through a stressful situation is a gentle reminder that the end of the tunnel is in sight and that light is just around the corner.

So take this as your reminder! To help you remember that there is always a stress-free tomorrow on the horizon, here are some encouraging quotes to read the next time you are feeling stressed:

Here are a few quotes to assist you cope with your stress at work:

Quotations to remember when feeling frustrated at work

You probably spend more time at work than anyplace else, and as a result, it is most likely one of the sources of stress in your life.

Here are a few sayings to assist you cope with your stress at work:

“One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.” –Bertrand Russell

“Sometimes the most productive thing you can do is relax.” – Mark Black

“Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes…Including you.” – Anne Lamott

"Of all the things that matter, that really and truly matter, working more efficiently and getting more done, is not one of them." — Mike Dooley

“The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.” – Stephen Covey

“You can do anything—but not everything.” – David Allen

Quotations to remember when you're anxious about the future

It can be quite stressful to not know what will happen next (What is the best course of action for me to take next? Which direction should I go? How will everything turn out?) —this explains why so many individuals worry about the future.

Read these quotes if you're anxious about what the future may bring:

“When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened.” – Winston Churchill

“Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it.” – Kahlil Gibran

“Do not anticipate trouble or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.” – Benjamin Franklin

“Somehow our devils are never quite what we expect when we meet them face to face.” – Nelson DeMille

“It’s not stress that kills us, it is our reaction to it.” – Hans Selye

“It's a good idea always to do something relaxing prior to making an important decision in your life.” –Paulo Coelho

Quotes that help you cope with stress over past mistakes

You are a human. You will also make mistakes, just like everyone else, possibly a lot of them.

Here are some quotes to help you let go of the past and move forward if you're feeling stressed over a mistake, a poor choice, or a "failure":

“The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.” – Elbert Hubbard

“It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all - in which case, you fail by default.” – J.K. Rowling

“Stress is the trash of modern life; we all generate it, but if you don’t dispose of it properly, it will pile up and overtake your life.” – Danzae Pace

“We can easily manage if we will only take, each day, the burden appointed to it. But the load will be too heavy for us if we carry yesterday’s burden over again today, and then add the burden of the morrow before we are required to bear it.” – John Newton

“Today expect something good to happen to you no matter what occurred yesterday. Realize the past no longer holds you captive. It can only continue to hurt you if you hold on to it.” – Sarah Ban Breathnach

“When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.” – Alexander Graham Bell

When you're anxious about your relationships, read these quotes.

Relationships with your partner, close friends, relatives, coworkers, and colleagues can be very helpful in lowering stress (is there anything better or more stress-reducing than someone you care about listening to you vent?!). However, if you have difficulties in such connections, they may also be the cause of those tense circumstances.

Here are a few quotes to help you deal with the stress (and get your relationships back on track) if your relationships are causing you to feel more worried than usual:

“Do not listen with the intent to reply. But listen with the intent to understand.” – Stephen R. Covey

“Choose to love each other even in those moments when you struggle to like each other. Love is a commitment, not a feeling.” – Dave Willis

“Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“A good way to overcome stress is to help others out of theirs.” – Dada J. P. Vaswani

“In times of stress, the best thing we can do for each other is to listen with our ears and our hearts and to be assured that our questions are just as important as our answers.” – Fred Rogers

“Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.” –Mary Oliver

Quotes for all types of stress

You may occasionally experience extreme stress without being aware of its source. It might be challenging to determine how to handle the stress when you cannot identify the cause.

When you can't quite pinpoint what is causing you stress in the first place, the following quotes can help you decompress:

“Many a calm river begins as a turbulent waterfall, yet none hurtles and foams all the way to the sea.” – Mikhail Lermontov

“Even too much sunshine can be devastating, while only with rain can growth occur. Accept both as part of the growing process in the garden of life.” – Donald S. Neviaser

“Rule number one is, don’t sweat the small stuff. Rule number two is, it’s all small stuff.” – Robert Eliot

“If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago.” – E. Joseph Cossman

“Every day brings a choice: to practice stress or to practice peace.” – Joan Borysenko

“It is not a daily increase, but a daily decrease. Hack away at the inessentials.” – Bruce Lee

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“Happiness doesn’t result from what we get, but from what we give. - Ben Carson

 “Always give without remembering and always receive without forgetting". - Brian Tracy

Careers at Chalhoub Group

 

وظائف في مجموعة شلهوب

Since 1955, The Chalhoub Group has been the premier partner for luxury in the Middle East. The Group has grown to be a significant regional player in the beauty, fashion, and gift industries as a specialist in retail, distribution, and marketing services based in Dubai.

منذ عام 1955 ، كانت مجموعة شلهوب الشريك الأول للرفاهية في الشرق الأوسط. نمت المجموعة لتصبح لاعبًا إقليميًا مهمًا في صناعات الجمال والأزياء والهدايا كمتخصصة في خدمات البيع بالتجزئة والتوزيع والتسويق ومقرها دبي.

The Chalhoub Group is creating brands in the area by providing outstanding service to all of its partners and a distinctive experience to its clients by fusing its expertise in the Middle East with a personal understanding of luxury. The Group is quickly transitioning from a conventional luxury distributor and retailer in the Middle East to a hybrid retailer that puts premium experiences at the fingertips of customers everywhere.

تقوم مجموعة شلهوب بإنشاء علامات تجارية في المنطقة من خلال تقديم خدمة متميزة لجميع شركائها وتجربة مميزة لعملائها من خلال دمج خبرتها في الشرق الأوسط مع الفهم الشخصي للرفاهية. تنتقل المجموعة بسرعة من موزع وتاجر تجزئة تقليدي للسلع الفاخرة في الشرق الأوسط إلى تاجر تجزئة هجين يضع تجارب ممتازة في متناول العملاء في كل مكان.

For current openings, please click the link below;

https://careers.chalhoubgroup.com/jobs

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Careers at Majid Al Futtaim

وظائف في ماجد الفطيم

Majid Al Futtaim, established in 1992, is the Middle East, Africa, and Asia's first shopping mall, community, retail, and leisure pioneer.

ماجد الفطيم ، التي تأسست في عام 1992 ، هي منطقة الشرق الأوسط وإفريقيا ، وأول مركز تسوق ومجتمع وتجارة التجزئة والترفيه في آسيا.

Majid Al Futtaim is a wonderful example of a corporate success story. It all began with a single man's idea to change how people shop, enjoy entertainment and relax in order to "create fantastic moments for everyone, every day." Since then, it has expanded into one of the most reputable and prosperous companies in the United Arab Emirates, operating in 15 different countries, employing over 43,000 people, and earning the highest credit rating (BBB) among privately-held corporates in the area.

ماجد الفطيم هو مثال رائع لقصة نجاح الشركة. بدأ كل شيء بفكرة رجل أعزب لتغيير طريقة تسوق الناس والاستمتاع بالترفيه والاسترخاء من أجل "خلق لحظات رائعة للجميع ، كل يوم". منذ ذلك الحين ، توسعت لتصبح واحدة من أكثر الشركات شهرة وازدهارًا في دولة الإمارات العربية المتحدة ، وتعمل في 15 دولة مختلفة ، وتوظف أكثر من 43000 شخص ، وتحصل على أعلى تصنيف ائتماني (BBB) ​​بين الشركات الخاصة في المنطقة.

In the region, Majid Al Futtaim runs 36 Magic Planet family entertainment centers and more than 400 VOX Cinemas screens. Along with well-known places for recreation and enjoyment like Ski Dubai, Orbi Dubai, and Ski Egypt, among others. Abercrombie & Fitch, AllSaints, lululemon Athletica, Crate & Barrel, and Maisons du Monde are just a few of the multinational brands that the Company represents in its fashion and home retail operations. The Company also serves as the parent company of the consumer finance company "Najm." Additionally, Veolia, a world leader in resource management for an optimized environment, and Majid Al Futtaim jointly own Enova, a facilities and energy management firm.

تدير ماجد الفطيم في المنطقة 36 مركزًا للترفيه العائلي في ماجيك بلانيت وأكثر من 400 شاشة وكس سينما. إلى جانب الأماكن المعروفة للترفيه والاستمتاع مثل سكي دبي وأوربي دبي وسكي مصر وغيرها. أبيركرومبي آند فيتش ، أول سينتس ، لولوليمون أثليتيكا ، كريت آند باريل ، وميزون دو موند هي مجرد عدد قليل من العلامات التجارية متعددة الجنسيات التي تمثلها الشركة في عملياتها في مجال الأزياء والتجزئة المنزلية. كما تعمل الشركة كشركة أم لشركة تمويل المستهلك "نجم". بالإضافة إلى ذلك ، تمتلك شركة Veolia ، الشركة الرائدة عالميًا في إدارة الموارد من أجل بيئة محسّنة ، وشركة ماجد الفطيم شركة Enova ، وهي شركة لإدارة المرافق والطاقة.

Please click the link below to explore current openings at Majid Al Futtaim;

https://careers.majidalfuttaim.com/ 

Note: Please do comment and share with your network if the current openings are not relevant to your profile.

ملاحظة: يرجى التعليق والمشاركة مع شبكتك إذا كانت الفتحات الحالية غير ذات صلة بملفك الشخصي.

Careers at AL Tayer Group

 

وظائف في مجموعة الطاير

The Al Tayer Group is active across a number of sectors, including automobile sales and service, luxury and lifestyle retail, distribution of perfumes and cosmetics, engineering, real estate, and interior design.

تنشط مجموعة الطاير في عدد من القطاعات ، بما في ذلك مبيعات السيارات والخدمات ، وتجارة التجزئة الفاخرة ونمط الحياة ، وتوزيع العطور ومستحضرات التجميل ، والهندسة ، والعقارات ، والتصميم الداخلي.

You can explore opportunities available at AL Tayer group if you are interested in the following industries;

يمكنك استكشاف الفرص المتاحة في مجموعة الطاير إذا كنت مهتمًا بالصناعات التالية ؛

- Automotive

- Retail

- Perfumes & Cosmetics

- Engineering

- Real Estate

- Interiors Contracting

Visit the relevant link given below to have a detailed review of the roles & responsibilities of the open positions.

قم بزيارة الرابط ذي الصلة أدناه للحصول على مراجعة مفصلة لأدوار ومسؤوليات الوظائف الشاغرة.

:Click the Link below to see current openings

https://altayer.taleo.net/careersection/ex/jobsearch.ftl lang=en&iniurl.src=LinkedIn_Slots

Note: Please share the open positions with your network if the jobs are not relevant to you.

Finding The Best Suppliers On Alibaba (How To Do It) / Amazon FBA Sourcing Tricks From Alibaba

 

Alibaba is China's largest e-commerce platform and the second largest search engine after Google. It was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Beijing. Alibaba is best known for its online shopping marketplace where consumers can find products at competitive prices. In addition to selling consumer goods, Alibaba offers services like payment processing, shipping, and logistics. Alibaba is currently ranked 8 in the world by market capitalization.


Finding a reliable supplier is crucial for sourcing because they have control over your final product, raw materials, price, product quality, packaging, shipping, and communication. Literally, they can make or break your business. If you're ready to buy from China, especially from Alibaba to start your Amazon FBA business. Please read this article, before you place your first purchase order with the Chinese suppliers. 

Why? because not all of the suppliers listed on Alibaba are direct manufacturers despite there being millions of products and suppliers. Not all of them are trustworthy with clients. Resells are widely available. The middlemen are prepared to take a portion of your earnings. There are also evil folks. Your money will be scammed by them. Don't be afraid, gentlemen, but be careful. I'm going to outline four easy stages for you to follow while you conduct your Alibaba research in this article. If you take these actions, your chance of being conned will be almost zero. Additionally, your chances of discovering a reliable direct manufacturer will significantly increase.

I'm going to give you a bonus tip at the end of the article. When you are ready to contact the Chinese providers, that will save you a ton of time. Are you guys prepared? Let's start now.

All right guys, before we continue onto Alibaba, let's briefly go through the steps I utilize. I can find suppliers on Alibaba without having to spend days evaluating them to maximize the effectiveness of our research. We require a shopping manual. Rookies and professionals look at products on Alibaba, but rookies quickly comment on pricing and MOQ while pros won't do that. They won't waste their time doing that because we are now shopping for suppliers and quality. We can always negotiate prices when we identify a reliable supplier who can create high-quality goods. Let me use MOQ as an example.

If you search on Alibaba for a yoga mat, for instance, there will be over 100,000 product listings, but if you search and sort by suppliers, I'll show you what I found. Only 287 suppliers out of the 980 suppliers will be selling these 100,000 products when we get onto Alibaba. There are only 287 suppliers who have been assessed as gold suppliers and have trade assurance. That indicates that the gold supplier is a paid member, and the supplier is evaluated by either the Alibaba team or a third-party business that has visited the factory audited, and validated the existence of the supplier's factory. Their tools and equipment are real. Additionally, Alibaba provides a free service called trade assurance. You can dispute payment through Alibaba if the product from your purchase order does not meet the requirements. This pyramid, or matrix, is actually the supplier rating system used by Alibaba.

To get Alibaba to discover the suppliers at the top of the pyramid, we need to make use of all the building screening criteria that are already available on their website. My task, if I'm seeking a yoga product, is to choose a few of the 287 suppliers to work with as my business partners. Having learned how to sort, you can now sort suppliers. Let's go over these suppliers' qualifications in four easy steps. Discovering their identity is the first step. You might be wondering why I look at these four criteria when I look at a supplier profile: supplier name, business type, and the number of years selling on Alibaba under the company certification. Why is it important, anyway? When a business is registered in China, the company name is actually extremely structured. Four important components—registration, location, company name, and primary product—must be included in the business name.

For instance, a business in Ningbo City might desire to register itself there and change its name to Golden Star. Additionally, they work on rubber and plastic-related items. They also have limited liability. The company in question is Ningbo Golden Star Plastic. This Ningbo corporation, however, cannot call itself Judd's because Ningbo has a city-level registration. Jud Young is the province above Ningbo and the Young Golden Star Plastic Company. Furthermore, as China is the country with the highest level of corporate registration, they cannot legally name themselves China Golden Star Plastic Company. As a result, suppliers must identify themselves as either manufacturers or trading companies when they advertise their products on Alibaba, depending on the business type. The supplier may occasionally list themselves as a manufacturer and trading company. This means that this provider is able to immediately export the goods to foreign businesses in addition to producing it.

Not all Chinese factories are authorized to export. As a result, they must sell the product to you through a middleman, or trading company. This is certainly quite subjective to say how long you've been selling online. In order to avoid having to watch over and mentor the supplier, I needed them to have at least three years of experience in the eCommerce industry in terms of communication and business maturity. Any business can create any product. Ask the third party to provide a certification, but not all businesses have the infrastructure in place to go through the process of obtaining a business certification. For instance, ISO 9,000 and ISO 14,000 both certify a company's quality system and environmental system, respectively.

Therefore, it's undoubtedly a great to have if a company has gone through these processes and obtained the ISO certification as a business. So you should be able to get a general picture of who they are by looking at these four factors: supplier name, business kind, number of years in operation, and corporate certification. Now, The second step is what they do. You should be able to tell if a supplier has a focused line of products linked to the item you intended to purchase or if they are dispersed and offer a wide range of items, which makes them less effective, by looking at their key products and product categories. As a company focuses more on a single product, they have more negotiating power when buying raw materials, and because they perform repetitive tasks every day, their workers' skills improve and the quality is much more dependable and consistent.

And if you're looking for the product, do you know what you should search for and what you shouldn't? You can check the product page of the supplier to see if they provide those. The next phase is determining where they are and who they are. In essence, the detailed address check shows that they are located in suite 101, room 120, on the 15th level. It goes without saying that you should inquire as to why the supplier claimed to be the manufacturer if their address is listed as an office address. The factory's address should be in an industrial area two hours outside of the city. This is really crucial, however if they are providing an office address, you should raise a concern with the provider on a high level. Guys, you need to check if the city where the supplier is located is outside of the five major coastal provinces.

The reason is because 80% of the manufacturer activities are done in these five coastal provinces. If your supplier is far away from coast and they're in an inner inland city, when you are ready to purchase the product, you are going to have to pay a lot more money. Transporting the goods from the city to the factory, where the factory is located near to the port. And when you are adding the three, the number two and three products, it will be much harder for you to consolidate this supplier with the other suppliers. So, keep this in mind, when you check the supplier edges, finally, the step number four is your suppliers. Naturally, you can learn more about this after contacting the supplier, but if their English is so fluent, you would wonder if they make a living doing this. Is this a supplier factory rep, a middleman, or a trading firm in reality?

If you don't trust what you have checked, you can always do these two things. Number one, use a surprise factory tour. For example, you can call your supplier contact and tell them that you have a purchasing agent in China. He's happened to be nearby the factory area. Can he arrange a quick factory tour for your agent? Or you can ask your supplier contact to do a quick video call. Hey, I wanted to get an idea of what your factory looked like. Can you get onto the production floor and do a quick video call with me using these techniques to find out if your supplier is truly a direct manufacturer? If they always find excuses, you need to put a question mark. Whether they are the direct manufacturer. Now you guys, you have a basic idea of who your supplier is, what they do, where they are at, and how they conduct the business. Let's move on to Alibaba and do a practice run and don't forget the bonus tip on Alibaba. 

If we search for a yoga mat in Alibaba, you will see that our search will show us over 100k products. If you sort these a hundred thousand products by suppliers, you will see that it's about a thousand suppliers offering these a hundred thousand products. 

And if you continue to apply filters by product gold suppliers, assessed suppliers and trade assured suppliers, we will have a 286 suppliers. You can continue to apply futures listed on the web on the left-hand side. For example, if you want your supplier, absolutely have a ISO 14,000 (environmental  standards). Then you can click on this filter that will give you 20 suppliers that meet that standard. 

Let's use the first supplier to practice on the supplier qualification steps. If you click on this supplier, first thing I wanted to know is their name. They're calling themselves Yangzhou Chenghong plastic and rubber company. Youngzhou should be their registration name. This is a Yangzhou province. One of the five coastal provinces (as shown above) and Chenhong is their business name. And they're involved in plastic and rubber product (their business type). Now the business type, they claim themselves to be both a manufacturer and a trading company. They can actually produce and export the product directly to you, which is good. Now, if the company has any certifications, they do have ISO 9,000 certification, which gives you a basic idea about the company. Now let's look at their product by looking at their main product. They listed mostly yoga products. And if you look at the product categories, you can see everything about yoga, mostly PVC products. They're very concentrated in doing yoga products, which is good. Their company size is quite small, but that doesn't concern us right now because they obviously can export a lot of products to overseas.

Now, its a time to share with you the bonus tip. When you're ready to contact the suppliers the right way to do that is to check the favorites button and select each one of them that you wanted to contact. All the selected suppliers will be added to your favorite list.

Once you have selected the relevant suppliers (to contact them) then you will be prompted to enter the code, so do it.

Now as you can see that all relevant suppliers have been selected therefore draft your message and it will be sent to all of them;

Once you send your message or query to your suppliers, some of them will reply and may be other feedback is delayed. You should delete the suppliers from favorite list who send their feedback already and later you can send reminder to others;

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