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Dr. Leahcim Semaj
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Dr. Leahcim Semaj...
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Solvers in the Caribbean.
This Psychologist combines ancient wisdom
with contemporary ‘livity’ to bring fresh
insight to old human problems.

"Where Do I See
Myself in
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Career Planning Matrix
In The New Work Order
Joint Committee For Tertiary Education
How to Live and also
Earn a Living
Leahcim Semaj

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“We have all that we need
to create what we want
because all the resources
we need are in our minds”
Theodore Roosevelt

Thoughts on Careers
Your career is like a garden.
 It can hold an assortment of life’s energy that yields a
bounty for you.
 You do not need to grow just one thing in your
garden.
 You do not need to do just one thing in your career. -
Jennifer Ritchie Payette

Thoughts on Careers
 “Learn to fish (income),
 share your fish (community service),
 teach others to fish (multiply yourself).
 Then find another sidestream, with different fish
(diversify income).
 And before THAT sidestream dries up,
 plant a garden (manage risk),
 like Thomas Jefferson (genius) would have done.”
 Jennifer Ritchie Payette

Thoughts on Careers
The worst days of those who
enjoy what they do, are
better than the best days of
those who don’t.
- E. James Rohn

Thoughts on Careers
It’s not what you achieve, it’s what you
overcome.
That’s what defines your career. - Carlton Fisk
Work to become, not to acquire. - Elbert
Hubbard

Thoughts on Careers
 The best way to predict the future is to create
it. Abraham Lincoln
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up.
The most certain way to succeed is always to
try just one more time. - Thomas A. Edison

Thoughts on Careers
I think everyone should experience defeat
at least once during their career.
You learn a lot from it. - Lou Holts
Begin somewhere. You cannot build a
reputation on what you intend to do. - Liz Smith

At the Foundation
Two Basic Needs
1. WORK
2. INTIMACY
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Human Development
CHILD
ADOLESCENT
ADULT
Boys and Girls
Males and Females
Men and Women
WORK
INTIMACY
PARENTING

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The Road Ahead
DENY YOUTH ACCESS TO PRODUCTIVE MEANS
USE
REPRODUCTIVE
MEANS
USE
DESTRUCTIVE
MEANS
PREGNANCY
BABY MOTHER
PARASITES
PREDATORS

Western World’s Biggest
Social & Economic Problem
Male
Young
Uneducated
Unmarried
Unemployed
Unemployable
The Economist, Sept 28, 1996
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You Are Not Ready to Be A…
A Parent
Until you are
able to
Pay Rent
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The Creation Story
God made man and placed him
in the garden of Eden
 “to dress it and keep it”
 (Gen 2:15)
Adam given work to name all
the animals (Gen 2:19)
Then God provided him with a
woman (Gen 2: 21-24)

Rex Nettleford
 in his inimitable way,
 long ago reminded us that the
foundation of the Jamaican
economy was created by the
bottom third of the class (room),
 those with less academic
achievements, that left school and
went out and created businesses.
 They then hired the top third of the
class to run those businesses.

‘Pathways to Prosperity’
One of the major reasons for Jamaica continuing to
be poor is because we have not succeeded in
unlocking the entrepreneurial productive
capabilities of the majority of our people.
To a large extent our socialization mantra for the
majority of our people has been and still is –
"Go to school, study hard, pass your exams then go
beg a job".

We are now in The New Work Order.
It is no longer muscle of the masses toiling in the cane
field and factories that drive the economy.
It is now brain power driving intellectually based
enterprises that powers knowledge based economies.
The requirement today is for the top third of the class to
go out and create the jobs for the rest of the class,
if Jamaica is to be able to evolve into new economies
that runs the world.

Post Colonial and Post Independence Jamaica
had a different dynamics than we do today.
The realities of the global, regional and
especially the national economy
is that job growth has been disproportionate to
population growth.

The Prediction Today
Globally, 2 Billion jobs will be lost between now and
2030.
These will be replaced by new jobs
created by and for the new economy.
If we are to move this country forwards we must
stimulate
 ‘New Pathway to Productivity’

The Purpose of This Intervention
Is To Do Just This
We have identified six (6) pathways which we
believe that if we energize them and
proportionately shift more of our people's
consciousness in these directions,
 all built around owning the means of production;
we will create a more secure future

6 Paths to Prosperity in Jamaica
The Best & The
Brightest
•The best way to get a job today
The Tried & The
Proven
• No more retirement
The Fittest & The
Fastest
• Our natural resource
The Dangerous &
Desperate
• Productive or Destructive
Health & Wellness
• Leading force globally
The Resurrection
of Ganganomics
• Our green gold
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The
Entrepreneur
The Employee
The Dependent
Transformation of the Work World

The Youth Challenge
Global youth unemployment (ILO)
 2013 – 12.6%
 2018 – 12.8%
Jamaica – 38.5% (STATIN 2013)
Spain, Greece & South Africa – 50%
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Gleaner Study on Migration (Jan 12, 2014)
Education levels of those who would migrate
Less than high school …..28%
High School/HEART………….. 37%
College, University, Graduate School
……………………………. 43%
 If we don’t transform them, we will loose them
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They are in the best position today!
Path 1. The Best And The Brightest
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What do they bring to the table?
 They are the most tech savvy and demanding generation ever on
this planet
 Technology is in their DNA.
 The internet is their life.
 They will use it for everything
 They will be a transient workforce.
 They will 'follow the work' and live where the work is based.
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 For them the virtual world is real –
 Friends, Fans, Followers and Contacts
 Geography and distance are
 no hindrance,
 Everything is here and now - just a click away.
 They will be ‘knowmads’
 Able to go and work anywhere!!!
 Gil Scott Heron told us that The revolution would not
be televised. We have Facebook, Twitter and BB!
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What do They bring to the table?
They are more self-directed
They process information at lightning
speed
They are smarter than any other
generation
(how wise? Time will tell?)
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 They will give new meaning to the term Social
workers:
 Raised in an educational culture of working in
teams
 and being highly socially connected through
 computers, cell phones, text messaging,
instant messaging, social networking,
 blogs, multi-player gaming, etc.,
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IT is now time For Them to
Get Disruptive!
Innovation Starts With Disruptive
Hypotheses
(Luke Williams)
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A disruptive hypothesis
 is an intentionally unreasonable statement
that gets your thinking flowing in a different
direction.
…are designed to upset your comfortable
equilibrium and bring about an accelerated
change in your own thinking.
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Target Group
for the intervention
4th and 5th Formers
Sixth Formers
Tertiary Students
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The Epistemology of Overstanding
Believe
Feel
Think
March 23, 2016

Visioning or Wishful Thinking?
The ability to ‘wish’ has equipped us with a most
powerful capability
but this process is best channeled by what is called
Thoughtful Wishing
With this we can create visions
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Begin With A Bold Vision
 One Year down the road
 “Life is one big road with lots of
signs.
 So when you riding through the
ruts, don’t complicate your
mind.
 Flee from hate, mischief and
jealousy.
 Don’t bury your thoughts, put
your vision to reality.
 Wake Up and Live”!
 - Bob Marley
March 23, 2016

What is Your Bold Vision?
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March 23, 2016
From DREAMS to GOALS

Set Your Goals – 100 Days Away,
defined and measurable.
“If you have a goal, write it
down.
If you do not write it down,
you do not have a goal
you have a wish.” Steve
Maraboli
March 23, 2016

Discovering Your Personal & Professional Wins
 Goal setting is key. Define your short-
term and long-term goals, to develop
an unwavering sense of purpose
without compromising flexibility.
 You must elevate your performance
while raising the standards of everyone
around you.
 Knowing your goals and working hard
at them creates the context where
winning becomes habitual.
 You will learn to welcome sacrifice as
you dedicate yourself to excellence.
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Set Your Goals – 100 Days Away,
“It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our
powers,
but for powers equal to our tasks,
to go forward with a great desire forever
beating at the door of our hearts as we
travel toward our distant goal”. -
Helen Keller
March 23, 2016

NOW: Make Your Plans
One month at a time
in as much details as possible.
 “Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a
plan, in which we must fervently believe,
 and upon which we must vigorously act.
 There is no other route to success”.
 Pablo Picasso
March 23, 2016

Make The Best Decisions – Each Day
“What do I do today to improve my life with
respect to my health, happiness, wisdom, wealth’
based on all spiritual, mental and empirical
information.
“Once you make a decision, the universe
conspires to make it happen”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
March 23, 2016

Make the best decisions
– each day
If this is not what you are doing,
then we call it wishful thinking.
“Stop the habit of wishful thinking and start
the habit of thoughtful wishes”
Mary Martin
March 23, 2016

If you want to get
something you have
never had
You must be willing
to do something
you have never
done
You Must Do Something

Step 8: Use The Law of Attraction
Tristan Loo
March 23, 2016

March 23, 2016
Create A Vision Board

The Science Behind
The Law of Attraction
We attract into
our lives anything
that we give
attention to,
regardless
whether it be
positive or
negative
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From a psychological view,
the law of attraction can be best explained
by the information filtering system of the
brain
known as the Reticular Activating System
(RAS)
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The Reticular Activating System
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Maturity
Means That
We Know When To
Hold
& When To Let Go
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Maturity Means That
We Know How To Mix
Past, Present & Future:
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Daily Practice
Conscious Right Action
You will evolve to
Spontaneous Right
Action
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Spontaneous Right Action:
Spontaneous right action is the right
action at the right moment.
It's the right response to every situation
as it happens.
It's the action that nourishes you and
everyone else who is influenced by that
action.
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Spontaneous Right Action:
 At the moment you consciously make a choice,
pay attention to your body and ask your body, “
If I make this choice, what happens?”
 If your body sends a message of comfort, that's
the right choice.
 If your body sends a message of discomfort,
then it's not the appropriate choice.
March 23, 2016

Career Planning
CAREER
PLANNING is a
lifelong
process
 What was your earliest
aspirations?
 Your first job?
 How you got here?
 Is this really where you
want to be?
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The Power
of
Intension
and Desire

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Choosing an OCCUPATION
Getting a JOB
GROWING in your job
Possibly CHANGING CAREERS
Eventually
Rethinking Retirement
CAREER PLANNING

is an oxymoron?
Career Planning

The Reality
Learn new
skills
every
5 years
Change
career
every
10 years

US Trends (2012)

Shorter Job Tenure
Associated with a new era of insecurity,
volatility, and risk
It's part of the same employment
picture as the increase in
part-time, freelance, and contract work;
mass layoffs and buyouts;
"creative destruction" within industries.

Plan to
to provide own health care
bridge gaps in income with savings
Manage own retirement planning
invest in own education to keep skills
marketable and up to date.

In the future,
"everything that can be routinized,
codified, and dissected will
eventually be done by machines.
Social and emotional intelligence is
what humans are uniquely good at
at least for the next decade or two."

No More
Lifetime Employment
GOOD WORK
+ CROSS TRAINING
+ CONTINUOUS EDUCATION
 =
Lifetime Employability

Personal Variables
1. Your Personality

Personality
A person’s individual
Traits
Motivational drives
Needs
Attitudes

Personal Variables
2. Your Interest/Passion
The Law of Dharma
 Seek your higher Self.
 Discover your unique talents.
 Ask yourself how you are best suited to
serve humanity.
 Using your unique talents and serving others
brings unlimited bliss and abundance.
 Your job or your hobby?

The Law of “Dharma” or Purpose in Life
There are 3 components of Law of
Dharma:
1) Each of us is here to discover our true
and higher self.
We must find out for our self that inside us is
a god or goddess in embryo that wants to be
born so that we can express our divinity.

The Law of “Dharma” or Purpose in Life
2) Express our Unique Talents.
 This expression of talent takes us into timeless awareness
which is certainly will make you happy and joyful.
3) Service to Humanity.
 Ask yourself “How can I help all those that I come into contact
with?
 When you combine the ability to express your unique talent
with service to humanity, then you make full use of the Law of
Dharma.

To Raise the (spiritually) dead
Heal the (Mentally and Physically) sick
Teach those who did not learn
Remind those who have forgotten.
So that they may become
Wiser, Healthier, Wealthier and Happier
in Body, Mind and Spirit

Develop Job Creation Skills
What is Your (Dharma) Passion?
What Desire can you fulfill Or Problems you can solve?
Who is willing to Pay?
What can you deliver?
a product - a skill - a service?
Go out and find clients or customers

The Law of Karma:
What do I want to give?
Every action generates a force of energy that returns
to us in like kind.
Choosing actions that bring happiness and success to
others ensures the flow of happiness and success to
you.
 The world? my country? my family? my work? my
friends?

1. Dharma
2. Profession
3. Vocation
4. Laborer

Personal Variables
3. Your Skills
4. Your Education

All You Need is Already Online
http://www.skilledup.com/

The Future of Education
The OpenCourseware Movement took hold in
2001
MIT started recording all their courses
making them available for free online.
They currently have over 2080 courses available
downloaded 131 million times.

In 2004
 The Khan Academy was started with a clear
and concise way of teaching science and math
Today they offer over 2,400 courses that have
been downloaded 116 million times

Apple’s iTunes U
 The 8,000 pound gorilla in
the OpenCourseware space
 This platform offers over
500,000 courses from 1,000
universities that
downloaded over 700
million times
Recently they also started
moving into the K-12 space

FREE
 All of these courses are free for anyone to take
 how do colleges, that charge steep tuitions, compete with
“free”?
 The OpenCourseware Movement has shown,
 courses are becoming a commodity
 Teachers only need to teach once,
 record it,
 then move on to another topic or something else
GO TO EPIC 2020

In the middle of all this
 we are transitioning from a teaching model
to a learning model.
Why do we need to wait for a teacher to
take the stage in the front of the room
when we can learn whatever is of interest to us
at any moment?

Teaching requires experts
Learning only requires coaches
With all of the assets in place,
we are moving quickly into the new frontier of
a teacherless education system

Caribbean Virtual Academy
 The CaribbeanExams
portal is home to the
region's premier
examination
preparation platform
for primary, high school,
college and university
students
 Caribbean Virtual
Academy (CEVA)
 a private online
primary and high
school.http://www.caribbeanexams.com/

Social intelligence:
Trust
Collaboration
Teamwork
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Agile thinking:
Today uncertainty rules the market,
 changes are abrupt
 yesterday’s market conditions are different to today’s.
Creative thinking,
 the ability to innovate,
 deal with complexity, ambiguity, and paradoxes
 prepare for more than one scenario
critical for future success.
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Human-machine Collaboration
And Co-dependence:
Digital and technology skills are not only nice to have,
they are a necessity.
workplace automation and human-machine
dependence
a workplace where human-machine collaboration and
co-dependence is the norm.
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Cross-cultural skills:
 Cross-cultural understanding and communication
 global operating skills such as
 the ability to manage diverse employees
 understanding international markets
 ability to work in multiple overseas locations
 foreign language skills
 cultural sensitivity
 will be increasingly in demand over the next 5 to 10 years.
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The innovative, entrepreneurial
mindset:
 The ability to innovate
“self-starter”
“risk-taker”
“visionary”
someone who “spots opportunity”
 You don't need to own a business to be an entrepreneur,
 but you do need the entrepreneurial mindset to be
successful in business.”
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Leadership skills:
Businesses today operate in two time frames,
the immediate and the very long term,
the ability to manage contradictions will be
critical.
This requires finding new ways of working
together.
Major barrier to engagement is trust
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Personal Variables
5. Where do you want to live?
6. How do you want to live?

Job Specific Variables
The Present Viability of Post
7. Where you live
8. Where you want to live

Job Specific Variables
The Future Viability of Post
9. Where you live
10. Where you want to live

“Experience is not what happens to you;
it's what you do with what happens to you.”
Aldous Huxley
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"Past is experience.
Present is experiment.
Future is expectation!
Use your experience in your
experiments to get your
expectations."
Anon
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“There are many ways of
going forward,
but only one way of standing still.”
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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