Living Your Dharma

2. Leahcim Semaj, PhD
November 10, 2015
Optimizing Brand
YOU!

3. "Where Do I See Myself in
10 Years Time?"

4. Dr. Leahcim Semaj
Chief Ideator & Resultant
The JobBank/ Above or Beyond
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#BrandYOUWI

5. How to Not Just Make a Living
But Make a Fortune
Career Planning Matrix
in The New Work Order

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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

7. UNDERSTAND IT
AND BENEFIT FROM IT
IGNORE IT
AND BE THE VICTIM
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Nothing Can Hold Back
the Tide of Societal Transformation

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READING THE TRANSFORMATION
1970 - Future Shock - Alvin Toffler
The coming post-industrial
1980 - The Third Wave
The New Work Order approaches
1991 - The Work of Nations- Robert Reich
• The New Work Order is here
1995 - The End of Work- Jeremy Rifkin
The Coming NEXT Work Order

9. is largely unstoppable
This holds out the potential to be as beneficial
to a society
as a whole as past market evolutions have
been
There is only one message:
You have to constantly upgrade your skills
Or get left behind
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The Flattening of the World

10. ANYTHING CAN BE MADE ANYWHERE
wherever it’s cheapest
AND SOLD EVERYWHERE
where it fetches the highest price
This is great for individual companies
not necessarily good news for individual nations
and some workers
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FOR THE FIRST TIME IN
HISTORY

11. What Got You Here
Wont Get You There
Unless You Find A New Gear
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The Reality of Change

12. 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

13. 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

14. 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

16. 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

18. Thoughts on Careers

19. 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

21. 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

22. Steve Jobs

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Two Basic Needs
1. WORK
2. INTIMACY
At the Foundation

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

26. Western World’s Biggest
Social & Economic Problem
Male
Young
Uneducated
Unmarried
Unemployed
Unemployable
The Economist, Sept 28, 1996
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27. A Parent
Until you are
able to
Pay Rent
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You Are Not Ready to Be
A…

28. 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)
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29. ‘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".

30. The 8 Road Blocks to
Prosperity
 1. Post slavery laws forbidding Black people from doing business.
 Mothers and Wives
 2. Your DT Degree
 What did your parents do? What did they tell you to do?
 3. Poor Understanding of what people want and who is willing to pay for what.
 4. Limited knowledge of how money really works.
 5. Forgetting how Human Capital and Social Capital built rural Jamaica.
 6. Ignorance of the work of Adam Smith - 4 Capitals.
 7. Lack of Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs).
 8. The top third of the class still waiting on the bottom third to create jobs.

31. 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.

32. 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’

33. 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

34. The 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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35. 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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36. 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
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37. You are in the best position today!
Path 1. The Best And The
Brightest
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38. 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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39. What do they bring to the table?
 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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40. 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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41. What do they bring to the table?
 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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42. IT is now time For Them to
Get Disruptive!
Innovation Starts With
Disruptive Hypotheses
(Luke Williams)
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43. 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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45. Dear to Dream
November 12, 2015

47. 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
November 12, 2015

48. What is Your Bold Vision?
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49. From DREAMS to GOALS
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51. 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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Choosing an OCCUPATION
Getting a JOB
GROWING in your job
Possibly CHANGING CAREERS
Eventually
Rethinking Retirement
CAREER PLANNING

53. is an oxymoron?
Career Planning
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54. The Reality
Learn
new
skills
every
5 years
Change
career
every
10
years
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The New Illiterate
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56. 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.
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57. 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.
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58. 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
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59. No More Lifetime
Employment
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GOOD WORK
+ CROSS TRAINING
+ CONTINUOUS EDUCATION
 =
Lifetime Employability

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The New Work Order Resume
1. NAME
2. ADDRESS
3. PHONE #
(Email)
4. SPECIAL SKILLS
5. MAJOR
ACHIEVEMENTS
6. WORK EXPERIENCE
7. EDUCATION & TRAINING
8. COMMUNITY EXTRACURRICULAR
ACTIVITIES
9. DATE OF BIRTH
10. REFERENCES ON REQUEST

61. 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
friends?

62. 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?

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Dharma – Passion - Purpose

64. What is Your Dharma?
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 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

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Develop Job Creation Skills
1. What is Your (Dharma) Passion?
2. What Desire can you fulfill
 Or Problems you can solve?
3. Who is willing to Pay?
4. What can you deliver?
a product - a skill - a service?
5. Go out and find customers

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1. Dharma
2. Professi
on
3. Vocation
4. Laborer

68. 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
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69. Aldous Huxley
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“Experience is not what
happens to you;
it's what you do with what
happens to you.”

70. Franklin D. Roosevelt
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“There are many ways of
going forward,
but only one way of standing
still.”

71. Time To Wake up &
Live
November 12, 2015

72. Dr. Leahcim Semaj
Chief Ideator & Resultant
The JobBank/ Above or
Beyond
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