Immigrant Workers to the Uk: A Personal Journey to Success

By Jenice Revers

An immigrant worker herself, the author gives an open and honest recount of her journey from the Caribbean to the UK. Its a vivid portrayal of how she navigates different hurdles which essentially could have caused devastation in her career and permanent setbacks. Through the utilization of tested and tried strategies she gained her breakthrough to professional advancement and launches herself as an entrepreneur.

Its an easy enjoyable read capturing best practices and sharing insights on pitfalls to avoid as immigrant workers to a first world country. Its a must have handbook for any professional who have already taken the plunge of migrating or thinking about migrating to the UK or to any first world country-for recruitment agencies, policy-makers, decision-makers, team managers so as to better understand the plight of the people they work with, govern or manage, in order to better communication and enhance the team building process.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse UK
• Release date: Nov 1, 2013
• ISBN: 9781491882146

Jenice Revers

Jenice Revers a seasoned professional who started her career in the Jamaican classroom as a qualified teacher. She later discovered her passion for working with children and families outside of the classroom setting-in the local community so gained qualification as a social worker at the University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica. Her service to her country, to children and families in particular spans over a decade. Prior to migrating to the UK in 2007 she served as lecturer on contract to the National Youth Service Jamaica, classroom teacher and school counselor in a number of volatile and under developed areas in the island. Overcoming great obstacles she has successfully practiced in a number of children and families teams in the UK and is currently contracting as an Independent Social Worker. Her burning passion is to work in the Motivation and Self Development Industry, hence, serving as Life Coach and developing various self help materials for people navigating various life experiences. She is married with three lovely children.

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Published by AuthorHouse 10/25/2013

ISBN: 978-1-4918-8213-9 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-4918-8214-6 (e)

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CONTENTS

Dedication

-Foreword-

Introduction: Where I Came From

Chapter 1.   Preliminaries to Arriving in the UK

Chapter 2.   Achieving Work and Life Balance

Chapter 3.   Other Impacts on Family Life

Chapter 4.   Requirements for Additional Training

Chapter 5.   Visa Restrictions…

Chapter 6.   Challenging a Negative Appraisal

Chapter 7.   Overcoming Communication Barriers

Chapter 8.   Dealing with Stereotypical Beliefs

Chapter 9.   How I Succeeded (Part 1)

Chapter 10. How I Succeeded (Part 2)

Chapter 11. You Will Certainly Succeed…

Acknowledgements

Resource Section

DEDICATION

To my mom Phyllis Bruce who has given sacrificially to ensure that I win in this journey . . . you are my angel . . . sent to help me graciously engage with the process of self actualization.

I love you forever . . .

-FOREWORD-

J enice is a dedicated social worker who was educated to tertiary level, trained as a teacher and qualified as a social worker in her homeland Jamaica. She worked there for over a decade as a classroom teacher, a school counsellor and lecturer in the National Youth Service. When the economic crisis occurred in the Caribbean region, she was among those who experienced loss of job security, and faced the dilemma of struggling to exist in straitened circumstances for herself and children.

In this book she gives a riveting account of the momentous decisions taken before migrating from Jamaica to England in search of employment as a social worker and further professional development, through which she would achieve a better standard of living for herself and her two children. She vividly relates the numerous obstacles of her journey to success, the strategies used to overcome the difficulties encountered in the early period of settling in a new environment and how her willingness to learn and adapt to new ways of practising, helped her to negotiate her way through the various systems. She never lost her unique touch of relating to those she helped. Her independent spirit, her high self-esteem, her belief in her ability to succeed, and her thirst for knowledge shine throughout the narrative. She is also mindful of all those, family, friends, Church colleagues who supported her on the way to success.

Jenice is generous in sharing her experiences with those professionals who are thinking of migrating to a developed or first world country, hoping that they may benefit from the examples of best practices and avoid unpleasant pitfalls. She gives useful advice to young and seasoned professionals not only about the qualifications acceptable in the new country, but about thinking carefully of their support networks and an understanding of the new country’s attitudes to other cultures. Briefly, she is saying that ‘forewarned is forearmed’.

The style of writing draws the reader in; it is positive, encouraging and inspirational and relevant not only to immigrant professionals from the Caribbean but to those from other places who seek to work away from