Y-PATH: How to become an NRI in 10 stages? By Xavier Augustin, CEO, Y-AXIS

XAVIER AUGUSTIN

Founder & CEO, Y-Axis Overseas Careers

Never deprive someone of hope; it might be all they have.

Y-PATH®How to become a successful NRI in 10 steps

The smart way to increase your global employability & mobility

(C) Xavier Augustin 2013

XAVIER AUGUSTIN

Y-PATH®How to become a successful NRI in 10 steps

The smart way to increase your global employability & mobility


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To my father

who imbibed in me the love of words, drama, travel and entrepreneurship.


Note from the AuthorAbout Y-Path10 Stages of becoming a successful NRIEnlightenEnvisionEmpowerEnrichEvolveExpress Entitle Embark Exist Expat

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Note from the Author

“Over the years of my entrepreneurial journey, nothing was more fulfilling that helping others find their way to a better life. Y-PATH is a product that is meant to institutionalize our counseling philosophy and methodology across all borders. We hope it will help you start your journey, take a turn, if necessary and sometimes even a u-turn but never come to a dead end. Bon Voyage”Xavier Augustin, Founder & CEO, Y-AXIS Overseas Careers


About Y-AXIS’ Y-PATH

• This patented counselling model has been built over 15 years of experience through actual counseling sessions of over 100,000 candidates around the world in various fields with an aim to increase a person’s mobility and employability abroad.

• The Y-PATH philosophy is founded on the ideal that a person should be able to find work anywhere in the world based on his or her merit and should not be denied an opportunity because of his or her gender, race or age.

• Y-PATH has 10 stages and each stage addresses various issues and concepts in the course of one's journey to become an expat. Y-PATH informs, counsels, analyses, inspires, motivates an persuades to make a successful international journey.

• YPATH offers overseas career counseling and not career counseling per se. It does not tell you want to become someone but tells you how to pursue an overseas career once you choose what you want to become.

• Y-PATH never gives up. Its guiding philosophy is never to have a dead end. It is designed to figure out an innovative and of course, legal way out should you face any roadblocks. With Y-PATH there will always be a light at the end of the tunnel.


ENLIGHTEN ENVISION EMPOWER ENRICH

EVOLVEEXPRESSENROLEMBARK

EXIST EXPAT

10 stages of becoming a successful NRI


Are you ENLIGHTENed?


ENLIGHTEN

Before anything else, enlighten yourself about your own capabilities and potential and what the world has to offer to you.

Y-PATH®Enlighten> Envision > Empower > Enrich > Evolve >

Express > Entitle > Embark > Exist > Expat

Knowledge is Power.- Francis Bacon

You must be able to Get a self-evaluation done. Know your strengths and weakness Know your opportunities and threats. Know your options. Know your resources.

verb: Give (someone) greater knowledge and understanding about a subject or situation.

Ask Yourself: Who am I? What can I do? Where should I go? How should do it?


Can you ENVISION

where you are going?


ENVISION

Unless you become serious, you will not allocate resources: Your mind Your time Your money and Your effort



As you desire, so is your willAs your will is, so is your deedAs your deed is, so is your destiny.- Upanishad

Verb: Imagine as a future possibility; visualize

You need to envision your future. You need to imagine the end. You need to visualize and

internalize the journey. Once you achieved this, all else will follow.

Ask Yourself: • Am I able to imagine myself abroad?• With a job that pays well and makes me happy? • With a house and a car? • With new friends from around the world?


Are you EMPOWERed?


EMPOWER

The most essential THREEE® Education Experience Exposure.

Y-PATH®Enlighten> Envision > Empower > Enrich > Evolve > Express

> Entitle > Embark > Exist > Expat

I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock: And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock. - The Bible

Verb: Enable (someone) to do something.

Empower yourself with a solid foundation: knowledge, experience and wisdom. Make yourself a capital asset that is capable of being curious,

learning, being adaptable and solving problems.

Ask yourself:How can I get the best THREEE in my formative years?

Is there any way I can enhance my THREEE?


Are you getting

ENRICHed?


verb: Improve or enhance the quality or value of...

The KEEEYs®that open new doors and friendships

Keep upgrading your English, your communication and presentation skills

Increase your Cultural Sensitivity Fine-tune your Expertise Pursue Excellence



Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

ENRICH

Enrich yourself by improving your language and culture sensitivity; developing a deeper understanding of your work and pursuing perfection within costs and time constraints.

Ask Yourself:• Are my communication skills mature enough?

• Am I becoming an expert? Or am I stagnating as generalist?• How can I become perfect in what I do?

• How can I become world-class?


Is it time for you to

EVOLVE?


EVOLVE?

Keep evolving to the ones you would be best at. Abandon anyone, anything or any place that holds

you back.



That which does not kill us makes us stronger.- Friedrich Nietzsche

Points to consider Transform to become a Specialist, Manager & Entrepreneur. Decide on changing your job, role, boss, department, company, city, country.

Ask Yourself•What do you want to become?•What is the change you seek?•Do you want to transform yourself from your current role of a Specialist, Manager or Manager to something else?

Verb: Develop gradually, esp. from a simple to a more complex form.


Are you EXPRESSing

Yourself?


EXPRESSExpress yourself in everyway you can professionally. Flaunt your skills, your

expertise, your feathers.Build your personal brand and become visible to the market.



Unless you make yourself noticed and believed, you ain't got nothin'.- Leo Burnett

verb: To manifest or communicate, as by a gesture; show.

Action items•Create your resume in traditional and contemporary media formats. •Update your profile on social networks.

Ask Yourself• Do I have a resume?• How can I market myself?• Is my profile on Linkedin updated?• How do I look on Facebook?• How can I build a personal brand?


Are you claiming your ENTITLEments?


ENTITLEverb: Give (someone) a legal right or a just claim to receive or do

something.

Don’t lose the chance to get all that you are legally entitled to - through paperwork. It will remain with you for a lifetime and possibly for future

generations. Apply in time before you become ineligible forever.



Strike while the iron is hot.

Ask Yourself• Am I not doing something as simple as filing an application when I can?• Am I being penny wise and pound foolish?• When will I become ineligible to apply?

Action itemsGet your documentation in order and apply for your jobs, permanent resident visas, admissions and licenses.


Are you ready to EMBARK on your

journey?


EMBARK

Embark on the journey that you long dreamt of. Begin winding up, relocate and settle down in your new country



By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.- Benjamin Franklin

Verb: Go on board a ship, aircraft, or other vehicle

Action itemsBuild reserves for a job search. Do you homework.Relocate when you are ready.Job search efficiently within your limited resources.Find a house.Relocate family when you are settled down.

Ask YourselfAm I prepared?Do I sufficient funds for a job search?Have I done my homework?


Do you EXIST in the system?


EXIST

You are now available, accessible, eligible and qualified to the market.You are in the G.A.M.E ®. (Globally Available, Mobile & Employable) now. When a recruiter or business contacts you, you have all the documents

and credentials in place. You exist in their eyes and databases.



A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.

verb: Be found, esp. in a particular place or situation.

Be readyTo market yourself before you are on bench.To take interview calls.To attend meetings in person.

Ask Yoursel•Am I available to recruiters? •Can I get to a meeting on the same day?•Do I have the credentials?•Do I have the work authorization?•Do I have the mobility to go in and out of the country?


Are you a good EXPAT?


EXPAT?

You went in as a foreigner but don’t remain one forever. Don’t abandon your identity either but adopt a dual mind-set and live best of both the worlds. Assimilate well. Don’t stand out. You are

an ambassador of a whole culture and country. Set an example as an Expat.



When in Rome, do as the Romans do.

noun: a person who is voluntarily absent from home or country

Action itemsLearn all the art of living and working in you new adopted homeland.

Ask Yourself•Am I adapting well to my new place of work, my neighbourhood and country?•Have I made new friends?•Am I earning and learning?•How can I make this better?


About the Author

Xavier Augustin is founder and CEO of Y-AXIS Overseas Careers, India’s largest overseas career consultant. He graduated from the University of Carolina’s prestigious Master of International Business (MIBS) program where he learned the fundamentals of an idealistic borderless world where capital and labour and flow freely. Xavier seriously believes that he is doing his bit through Y-AXIS in building that world. He lived and worked in the US for over a decade. He now lives in Hyderabad with his wife and two daughters.

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