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

First published in India in 2013 by Y-AXIS Solutions Pvt. Ltd
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To my father
who imbibed in me the love of words, drama, travel and entrepreneurship.

Note from the Author
About Y-Path
10 Stages of becoming a successful NRI
Enlighten
Envision
Empower
Enrich
Evolve
Express
Entitle
Embark
Exist
Expat
Contents
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III
IV
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VII
VIII
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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
Y-PATH®
As you desire, so is your will
As your will is, so is your deed
As 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®
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
Y-PATH®
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.
Y-PATH®
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?

EXPRESS
Express yourself in everyway you can professionally. Flaunt your skills, your
expertise, your feathers.
Build your personal brand and become visible to the market.
Y-PATH®
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?

ENTITLE
verb: 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.
Y-PATH®
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 items
Get 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
Y-PATH®
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
- Benjamin Franklin
Verb: Go on board a ship, aircraft, or other vehicle
Action items
Build 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 Yourself
Am 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.
Y-PATH®
A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
verb: Be found, esp. in a particular place or situation.
Be ready
To 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.
Y-PATH®
When in Rome, do as the Romans do.
noun: a person who is voluntarily absent from home or country
Action items
Learn 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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