Jamaicans are always been a people on the move. We are a people who have a magnet for opportunity where ever it may be located.
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The continuing global economic tsunami has created a new momentum for a significant movement of peoples, from the diaspora:
- Loss of wealth from our 401K and home equity
- Increasing unemployment
- Limited job prospects going forward
- Constant retooling of one’s skill set
- An increased sense of strengthening family links
are just some of the factors driving this renewed pilgrimage.
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As always, there is an easy way and a hard way to accomplish this task. Some fool hardily saunter into this experience and usually pay dearly for taking this path. Help is available if we just look.
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It was my privilege to enter into conversation with Dale Pilgrim-Wade who is a resident guru on relocation to Jamaica.
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Ms. Dale Pilgrim-Wade , relocation Expert
Dale Pilgrim-Wade is an Associate with Framework Consulting and currently heading up its Transition Service practice. She possesses a BA. in International Relations, with a focus on Latin America & The Caribbean and an MA in Counselling. She has worked as a Communications Manager with organizations such as the AAMC located in Washington DC, Kaplan College in Boca Raton Florida, and specialized in designing Mentoring & Retention based programmes intended to change student behavioral outcomes.
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Dale is no stranger to Adults in Transition, as she left a career as a College Academic Advisor who specialized in adult student populations returning to college to change careers, to now assisting expatriates settle in a new environment. She currently utilizes her skills and talents for by providing mentorship, support and guidance for expatriate families relocating to Jamaica and in the Carribean.
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Dale has been living in Kingston Jamaica for the last three and a half years, and recently co-authored the ” Trinidadian Executive in Jamaica,” a Framework Consulting study of Trinidadian Executives and the challenges they face as expatriates running companies in Jamaica West Indies
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Click & listen to the wisdom of Ms. Wade
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The wise knows how to leverage experience, and gain momentum. Check out Dale’s resource rich site :
Dale’s website
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Remember:
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; Skill is knowing how to do it, and Virtue is doing it.
David Corn