Mansoor Danish – Corporate Connect – Jobs and Economic Downturn
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The speakers emphasize the importance of maintaining low utilization rates for production levels to avoid losing business and prevent further downturns. They stress the importance of finding a job and building skills to stay ahead of the age of the digital age, as well as finding job opportunities for students in specific sectors and working on a feasible study to determine the level of demand in the market. They also emphasize the importance of trust in Allah's substempting and the need for basic knowledge of the d union to survive in the modern age. They stress the importance of being patient and understanding in learning from experiences, and emphasize the need for a master's degree in Arabic language learning for businesses.
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Bismillah R Rahman r Rahim Assalamu alaykum Warahmatullahi Wabarakatuh. I welcome all of you to a brand new corporate Connect session with me in sha Allah Huhtala. I'm the annoncer Dhanesh and the corporate relationship head with the International Open University, and insha Allah Tala. Today, I'll be addressing all of you on a very important topic on economic downturn and job losses. Now, before we get the session started, I will just allow some more time for people to log into the YouTube session. Today, we are streaming live on YouTube, we are not on Zoom, I mean, we are not connected with our students via zoom, we've kept the session open so that more people can
participate using the YouTube link. So we will allow another couple of minutes for people to come in. But meanwhile, while you have already logged in, and I can see some of the people are commenting on the chat box, I would request you to share with me some of your expectation that you have from this program. What is it that has brought you to this program? And also if you can quickly mention Which country are you from in the chat box as well. And we will start the session? Precisely in two minutes. Thank you so much.
Okay, so we have Adam, who has joined us from Nigeria, and Abdullah, he says that he's been facing some challenges with regards to learning. And he needs guidance on how on the issue of Business Administration. So we're going to talk about that as well today in shallow Tana, how you can actually use knowledge at this critical juncture where we are looking at so many economies
hinting at a possible economic recession, a downturn, we'll talk about that as well.
Okay, what about the others over here? Well, we have people who have joined us from South Africa, J Hobbs has joined us from South Africa. We've got people joining us from us, Saudi Arabia, Nigeria, of course, India as well. We have brother Massoud who's joined us from India, Pakistan as well. So we've got people joining us from different parts of the world, Masha, Allah Allah. And that's one of the benefits of studying with the International University as well, that we have a diverse set of students who are coming from different parts of the world. And this richness, which you bring in with terms of your diversity is actually going to help you in the long run. When you are studying
with students from different parts of the world. When you're studying with teachers who are spread across different parts of the world, you start becoming
better in terms of handling people with different culture, different backgrounds. So if you get a job in a country where there are people coming from different countries and working, for example, in the Middle East, for example, in in UAE, you have people in a job who are working from the who have come from different parts of the world, some are from Syria, some are from India, Pakistan, US, Australia, different parts of the world, Africa, and how do you survive in that environment? So studying in a university like IOU gives you that advantage that you are able to better handle challenges and issues which come up with diversity? All right. We've got people joining us from
Afghanistan, staying in UK, Malawi, and so on and so forth, Kenya as well, Canada as well. All right. Turkish participation is also there, or is it? No, I wanted to know about investing in Turkish participating banks. All right, I thought there's somebody joined from Turkey. All right. Okay. Thank you so much Malaysia as well. A lot of you are commenting. Thank you so much for commenting. I'm not able to go through each one of them. Now. We're going to get the session started off, I'm done with my two minutes, we will begin the session right away. Without further ado, I'm not being I'm not going to use any PowerPoint slides. So you're going to see more of me and let's
have a slight slide in front of you. I have few points which I want to share with you. Now at the outset. As we begin the session, we clarify that these sessions are not meant for people who are in an advanced stage of the career. This session is meant for students. Corporate connect sessions of the International Open University are meant for students to have an opportunity to understand how the job markets are. It gives an opportunity for students to interact with industry experts when we keep inviting from time to time, and so on and so forth. So, this particular session, we're going to discuss a bit more about the job market. Now. What's the topic that we're discussing today? The
topic that we
discussing and I will request you in the chat box where you can you're free to chat and have discussion and share your thoughts in the chat box. But questions will only be taken up once we are done. So if you put a question right now in the chat box, in all likelihood, I'm going to miss that out. So avoid putting a question in the chat box, but you're free to share whatever you wish to in the chatbox. You can interact and keep sharing your views. I can go through that later. All right, so going back to the topic, the topic is economic downturn and jobs. Let us start off by understanding what do we mean by economic downturns. And we're not going to get into technical
definitions, because we need to understand there are students who are coming from non business background, non economics background, we have students from psychology who have joined the session, students from Islamic Studies and Arabic language and psychology and education, who may not have a very clear picture on how the technical aspects work. So keeping all of that in mind, we will try to avoid the technicalities and take a very basic definition of an economic downturn. When we hear of economic downturn, all we mean to say is that the country or that specific nation is going to a decline in the economic growth, the economic growth is an a decline, there has been a negative
economic growth, look, every economy is striving to grow and they grow by increasing the consumption other than economic growth, what is the what are the tools to which you measure an economy, one of the tools that you use is the gross domestic product. And it is basically the summation of your consumption pattern. So the consumption in terms of what you buy in terms of products and services, and investment, and so on, and so forth. government expenditures as well, all of that is taken into account. Now, when I am looking at economic downturn, and trying to tell you that there has been a fall in demand, there has been a fall in consumption pattern of people. And all of this is leading
to a decline in the economic growth of a particular country. All right, now, this fall in demand can happen due to various factors, which we will not try to touch on. Today. We just tried to touch on a couple of them. But coming to the most critical aspect is that there is a falling pattern in the demand.
Citizens of that particular country, people like you and me living in a country, we tend to spend less on our consumption or we are delaying certain purchases. We don't want to buy right now we are delaying postponing our purchase decision. Why? Because we feel that we need more money in hand right now. Because we are hearing that there is pike happening in oil prices. We are hearing that the Ukraine war is taking place which will lead to rise in oil prices, and so on and so forth. All of this causes concern amongst people when COVID happened, what was the knee jerk reaction that people did, many people started stocking up, many people started postponing the normal purchase
decision, they stopped buying things which they felt was not a necessity, it was item of comfort and luxury. They started postponing those decision when you postpone such decision. And in a larger nation, when most of the citizens start following that pattern. It puts a there's a decline in the demand. And when there is a decline in the demand, naturally, there will be a fall in the growth of the nation, the economic growth of the nation. Now this fall will have a impact which we'll talk off. But this is what economic downturn is so there is a decline in the general consumption pattern of people. When I say consumption, we're not merely talking about consumption of food. Okay?
Consumption means could be anything, you know, buying decisions of people that is getting delayed investment decisions of people are getting delayed, I want to hold on to my money. I don't want to invest my money anyway. Why? Because I know that this is a critical time and I may need money during emergencies. Example, job losses as we are talking about it today. When you know that you're going to lose your job because there is a recession in the economy. What is the knee jerk reaction, you decide to postpone taking any decision to purchase anything you want more money in your account? Because you're worried that God forbid if I lose my job if there is a layoff in my company, I need
to survive for a couple of months or three months till I find an alternative job. So all of this can you can see is going to lead to a drop in the consumption by
Turn, and therefore, the economic growth of that particular nation will tend to decline. Now with 2023, economists have been wanting giving a warning signal that all the effects of the COVID and the and the Ukraine war which is taking place, they will start impacting economies continue to impact economies more so in the first half of 2023. So the first six months of 2023 is a critical period for many nations. And the alarming or rather the, or rather, the countries which have a higher risk of falling into this recession are mostly European countries and the United Nations, the United States of America, these are countries which are running that risk of reporting negative economic
growth or a decline in the economic growth.
Countries like in the Middle East and South Asia and Africa, are supposed to have a moderate growth. So if you are in one of these nations, some economics are hopeful about how Middle East is going to fare they are hopeful about it, they feel that there will be a moderate growth, or they may not be declined, which will impact deeply so that there is expectation has high expectation with Middle East and South Asia and African nations. Alright, so this is how it what economic downturn is now what does economic downturn lead to we spoke about falling economic growth, we spoke about a recession, a potential recession, what is recession? Now recession means since and this is the
economic definition, consecutively, there are two quarters of negative economic growth, which means there's a decline consecutive two quarters there is a steady decline in the growth of the economy of that nation. The moment it fits two consecutive quarters, the country is supposed to have entered into the stage of state of recession. So this is something which you have to keep in mind. So when you hear about recession, recession, one quarter when the economy falls, it is not a recession. Alright, one quarter falling is not a recession and economic and fight back and get back necessary measures are being taken steps are being taken by the government by the Central Bank of that country
to see how the economic can be pushed back to its original levels. Another aspect of economic downturn is that there's falling levels of income. So you might still continue to have a job, but the income levels may fall. Now, I have personally seen this in my, you know, experience over the last so many years, that there were times when a specific job used to attract a lot of salary, a lot of money, but subsequent to the 2008 subprime crisis, the same level of jobs we had were offering lower amount of pay. Now there are two reasons for that. One is from a company's perspective, the company is now trying to ensure that they don't have to lay off people. So the jobs remain. And at
the same time, they have to make sure that they have control over the spending. So they start cutting off the income levels. That's one of the thing. The second thing is
people are looking for a job, whether it's a good market or a bad market, as you have graduates graduating, they want jobs. So companies know that people don't have much of an option in terms of seeking a job, you know, whichever job comes the way they just want to grab the job and hold on to a job. So that's why sometimes the company is also tried to, you know, push the push back to through lower levels of salary. But largely the reason is that companies are trying to protect the existing employees. So they tell the existing employees that well, we might have to lower the levels of income in this period of time. And then of course, in the long run as things will sort out, we will
try to bring it back to the original levels. So there is falling levels of income, which is another characteristic of a downturn. Now, employment levels start falling, why do employments level fall and this is something which we have to discuss today.
You have to understand that one of the factor of production in any economy is what?
Well, there are four factors of production. The first is land, the second is labor. The third is capital, and the fourth is entrepreneur. So
one of the factor is labor. The second factor, which I mentioned was labor. Labor is a factor of production in order to carry out a production. I need people. I need employees, I need labor. They are an important factor for production. If I have to, let's say
manufacture this mobile phone, I will need people. It can't be simply digitized, everything can be digitized, some level of manpower is needed. If I have to manufacture this computer screen or desktop, which you're using right now to watch me or if it's a television to which you're screening this, you need some people involved to run this and then to provide the after sales services Well, so what happens is that labor being an important factor of production when consumers and citizens and people stop their consumption pattern or reduce the consumption pattern, what's happening, the demand is falling. When I as a manufacturer, know that the consumption patterns are on the fall,
it's on the decline, the demand is falling, the purchase decisions are falling as in people are postponing the purchase decision, what am I going to do as a manufacturer, will I keep on running the factory at its original level? Will I keep on producing the same number of units, which I used to do when the markets were all good? No, I will have to cut down my production. Now when I cut down my production, my usage of labor will fall I will not need so many laborers, because production levels are falling. So when production levels will fall, they will be laying off of people which will take place I don't need so many people because the I have no option. How will I run my
business? How will I run my company? How will I run my factory I don't need so many people at my workplace. So you start laying off people. This is an important point which I want to make you understand that one of the primary reasons why companies and factories layoff people during recession is because they want they are not able to produce at the original levels. Now, if they keep hiring people, they know that they will not be able to produce at the original levels. Why? Because there is no point producing so much when there is no demand. If there is no demand and you keep producing more goods, there will be excess surplus which will be created demand we even wastage
because if you're not able to sell that surplus, you will be forced to sell it at a lower price so that you're able to get rid of your items in the warehouse. And this is actually going to impact the goodwill of your company because you might be lowering your price levels, which after a point of time, you might have created an image of the company, you know, Apple, for example, if it starts selling mobile phones tomorrow at a throwaway price, while people might go and buy. But there is an element of you know what I wouldn't call it state status, because status can be mis understood. But when you buy an Apple phone, you know that there is a set of audience which will buy an Apple phone.
So when the prices will keep falling. Some people who would buy an Apple phone would think there is nothing unique about an Apple phone today anyone and everyone can afford an Apple phone and buy an Apple phone. So that's why they might even delay the decision making. So as a company, I have the situation where I know that I can't really lower my prices by going on a on a production screen. At the same time. If I have people hired when the production levels are low, I have to pay them when I pay them salary or wages.
When there is no production, no sale taking place, it will start hitting my reserves. The reserves that are created, which are supposed to be used back to enhance the production level and enhance the marketing and let it be used for growth will now be used for paying off of salaries and wages to people who are working without generating any major productive, you know, without generating any productivity. Because we don't need them we just have them on a payrolls. So companies will be forced to lay off such people. Now this is about the layoffs that will take place. So we spoken about consumers a customer spending less they will tend to even save more what happens is as I told
you, if I have to take an investment decision if I have to buy a property and I know a huge amount of money is going to go out if I buy a property. I postpone that decision. Because I know that I'm hearing about recession taking place first half of the year there is already a fear a concern being raised. So as a consumer I'm going to postpone that decision because I know I need that money in case there will be what they call rainy days. So you okay you can see the clouds are building up and the rainy days that might be around. So you are apprehensive because of this apprehension. You spend less you
delay your savings investments, I beg your pardon. You keep more money in your hand in your saving bank account, you want to have ready access to that money.
All right companies. Now this is as far as recession and job losses are concerned. Before I move forward. Do you have any questions over here quickly in the chat box? I'm going to take two or three questions. If there are any.
Any questions, please let me know.
I'm waiting in the chat box. So if there is anything, just let me know in the chat box.
Okay, we don't see any questions at this point of time. So we're going to proceed with our discussion in shallow Tala. So we come back to the issue of jobs. Now.
As a student, I have to understand yes, quarter is a three month period massive, what is a three month period? So you have four quarters in a year fall into 312 months? Thank you. All right, let's come back to our discussion. Honey firm in the chat box. Please wait with your question. And moving on. Inshallah, we'll take the questions towards the end. All right. So from a student perspective, why should you be worried or concerned as a student, you will be worried or concerned because you're going to graduate soon. And as soon as you graduate, you would, you would want to land up with a job, you might be looking to start working and getting some experience in the industry. Now, for
that level of industry experience, you will face a challenge because it might be difficult to find a job for yourself, which already companies are laying off. Already companies who may not be laying off would also want to, you know, go slow with the hiring process. Unless, of course, there is a need for hiring a specific person, they will be a little slow in terms of their hiring process, companies would want to have more cash in hand, so that they can run the operation of the company during difficult times. Because remember, companies are unsure whether the revenues will keep coming in the way it was coming during the good days, because people in the society will be spending less.
It's a chain reaction, you see, it's a chain reaction. Now, imagine you're working in a company. And the
company says there is a recession taking place, we might be laying off people, they've just announced they haven't laid off anyone what happens, you stop spending, when you stop spending, you are contributing to the falling of the economic levels or the other growth level of the country, isn't it? Because we just said that economic growth includes the total consumption pattern. So when you're reducing your consumption, when you're delaying your decision to buy something postponing your purchase decision, what are you doing, you are contributing to the decline in the economy.
So like you, there will be others who might be even laid off. So people who are now laid off, they know for the next two to three months, they have to survive on the savings. So they will delay any kind of unwanted expenses, which can be postponed, like buying a comfort, I don't need to buy a sofa set right now. I might even delay buying a bed for myself, I'll try and just do with whatever I have, till I find the job.
Are you getting the point that I'm trying to make. So just losing jobs, or not getting jobs is not enough. There are people who are working in an organization in a company, and they would also be contributing to this because they will not be spending much. So that's an important point that I wanted to make. Now, coming to the issue of jobs and I came across a very good quotation the other day where it said in one of the blogs which I was reading, unemployment, when it happens when people start losing jobs, it happens rapidly. It happens like a rocket unemployment rises up like a rocket, but it settles down. It's falls back like a feather. So you know how a feather falls. If you've ever
seen a bird flying and if a feather comes off and it falls, it comes down slowly. And what another characteristic of a feather is when the feather comes to rest, it doesn't make any sound so when unemployment goes away from the economy, it goes away gradually, without making too many sounds too.
Too many noise. So but when unemployment happened, it creates a lot of hullabaloo load of sound like a rocket, you know, taking off. So unemployment when it rises at prices like a rocket, and it falls back like a feather. So recession, unemployment, economic downturn, I hope you've understood the link between all of them. Now as a student, what are the things that I have to take care of when it comes to finding a job? First and foremost, I make it absolutely clear that not only should companies be looking for alternatives, when a recession is about to take place, when economics are sending alarming signals that the global recession will take place. First half of the year, few
countries are being sent warning signals countries in the Europe and the West are being sent signals that you need to be prepared for a fall to take place. What are you supposed to do a water companies in this country supposed to do? They have to start looking for alternatives, they have to start seeing what are the ways by which we can have an alternate plan in process.
Similarly, my dear students, you do have to work on an alternative. If you were thinking that you're going to just simply graduate and look out for a job and get a job, it's not going to happen, you have to be prepared, that the markets are changing. So in the market, which is changing, one of the things I need to keep in mind, the first thing which I say and this is something which is my personal favorite. And I have been sharing this in my posts on social media on my reels and videos and other lectures, which I give, I always stress on this. And the International Open University also has the skill development session that we conduct for our students regularly. And yes, I'm
talking about skill development, when the times are tough, you need to find a way to survive.
You know, when necessity comes, you start inventing things, right? Like they say necessity is the mother of invention. How did invention take place? There is a scene necessity led to invention, we needed something so we started inventing something. Similarly, if you need a job, and you know the prevailing situation is not conducive for you to get a job with your degree. What is it that you need to add to your degree to get a job, a skill,
you need to focus on building and soft skills, short courses on communication, short courses on leadership, short courses on how to negotiate how to effectively sell products, how to build in emotional intelligence, how to have time management, self management, how to manage yourself, how to work on mental health of an individual, if you do the short courses. These are skills which you are adding to yourself. They are all feathers on your cap, which is going to help you fly high in the long run, the more feathers you're going to add to yourself to help you fly. So if you want to fly in this difficult period of time, if you're not finding a job, try to pick up this strat courses,
get a certificate. Once you have a course done a certificate with you, you know you can display that on your curriculum vitae, your resume, you can talk about it. You can discuss about it with your hrs for interviews. So you're trying to stand out with competition. Okay, you're seeing competition and you want to stand out alright, there's Zan taking place right now around my vicinity. So we'll just pause for a couple of minutes and then we'll continue our session.
Okay, let's Salam Alikum warahmatu Allahi wa barakato Welcome back to the session and we will continue discussion on jobs and what kind of jobs that we should be looking for. We started off our discussion and I'm just going to quickly recap actually, we started off our discussion by talking about building in skills. And I told you that skills are extremely critical, even in the downturn, spend a small amount of money building in a skill, if you know how to communicate, do a course on communication, look, talking with friends and communication is not the same thing. Professional Communication is different. Communication required at workplace is different. So please know the
difference between the two. Just because you're able to talk with your friends, five of you are able to hang out and you know, one of you are very glib talker, it's not necessarily that you know, the level of communication required at the workplace. So, you need to work on getting those necessary skills. I as a company, if I have to hire someone and if I see that there is a application in front of me, where a person has the same level of knowledge or more or less similar level of experience with another candidate, what is going to be the clincher what will be the factor which will get the deal clinched for you. The clinching factor. The deal clincher for you will be the skills that you
have, what makes you different from the other person is your skill. qualification, we you and me can have the same level of qualification. We've got so many students studying with us in our psychology and education and business administration. They'll all be graduating soon. So they're all have the same level of qualification. Where is the clinching the deal clincher? The deal clincher is you have a certificate on professional communication, you have a certificate on critical thinking, work place organizations like people who are able to analyze things critically. Because in your workplace, it's not a herd mentality. They don't want a herd mentality. Companies good companies don't want people
to just simply take orders and work. They want people to come back and give feedback. If they have a different opinion, a different approach, which can be more effective, they would like you to share that, that you need to have a critical mindset as well analyze things critically. But it doesn't mean you become a person who's pessimistic, always criticizing and speaking negatively. There's a thin line between that for that you need to do a course on critical thinking a short course on critical thinking,
the art of handling a no and objection, if you are going to be in a market where consumption patterns are falling. People are delaying the purchase decision.
highly likely that as a company, I would like to have a person who knows how to convince people. If I have to hire Under Armour, I would see whether Abdul Rahman has the ability to successfully convince people in this market where people are delaying buying decisions. Can he go and convince someone to buy a product? That's what a company wants. Company eventually wants revenue. It wants sales. So do I have a particular qualification or a short course which I've done
through a professional who is an expert in the field to guide you, if I can see that certificate, I'm going to be confident as an employer. So I hope you're getting the point that I'm trying to make here, in terms of handling your professional, the soft skills. Now, let's come to the other issue. The hard skills are the technical skills, there are certain jobs which require technical expertise, there is growing awareness and focus on the usage of cryptography and interrelated, you know, products which are being used using the same
crypto knowledge.
Can I do a course on that it's a little technical. But can I do a course on that and bring myself to a level where I can actually grab a job in that sector? It could be that the sector where I had an expertise is now going to a downward trend. So can I actually do a course? A short course, which can make me move industries can make me move sectors, I changed my sector completely. Can I do that? Yes, you can do that. Why can't you do it? All you need to do is identify an opportunity. Remember, necessity is the mother of invention. If a situation demands that you have to change, you have to change, you have to change yourself with the situation with the you know, the only thing constant in
life. One of the things which I learned from my former superior, was the only thing constant in life is a change. And you should be willing to change and willing to adapt to changes. You can't be too hard on yourself, that will come what may, I'm not going to change. I don't think you're being hard on yourself, you're being too easy on yourself, I stand corrected, you have to be hard on yourself, if the time is such that you need to change so but so be it. I need to get more knowledge, and there is no age to learning.
Let us pause here for a while. In this university, we also look into the curriculum from an Islamist perspective. So let me share with you some teachings from the life of our beloved Prophet Muhammad, peace and blessings be upon him.
The Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam and his companions, most of them who got at that point of time were coming to the deen coming, you know, accepting Islam, the companions of the Prophet SAW Salem, what were the age? Well, the whole Young, were they all in the age group of you know, eight to 14, where they could learn and learn and not know, many of them were of the age of our beloved Prophet sallahu, and the prophets of salaam, the Naboo descended at around the age of 40. So most of the comparisons around him were in that age group as well. Or maybe a little younger than him. So the point that I'm trying to make is that people were learning at that age, they were
investing on understanding the knowledge of the the, they were memorizing the Quran, and here we're talking about companions who knew Arabic, not like some of us who don't know the language, we memorize the Quran, but we don't know how to apply it. But these were people who knew what they were memorizing, and they knew how to apply it. Because the prophets Watson was there to guide them. The point we're trying to say is there's no age to learning. And we saw that in the life of the prophet Sallallahu wasallam, we saw that in the life of his beloved companions, we saw it in the life of the early generation of Muslims. And that is why we see that one of the golden age of the Muslim world
was during the early period, because people invested in the learning, they understood the importance of seeking knowledge, knowledge does not mean that you gain knowledge to the age of 2025. Once I have a postgraduate or I have a PhD, call us, I'm done. I don't need to do anything else in life. Now I can just work and work and work. No, you have to keep investing, the only thing that keeps you young is learning. Because the more you're learning, you're remaining abreast with the changes taking place, you're young in your mind, the age, the body, it's all going to wither away, it will all go away with time, the only thing that will remain with you is the knowledge that you're
learning. And for that you need to keep acquiring knowledge for with times, keep upgrading yourself, unless you upgrade yourself, you can't survive in this market. So I'm telling you that four technical skills could be something related to let's say coding. It could be something related to digital marketing. I was having a word with one of my students this morning. And she I think had done her graduation with geography as a specialization, if I recall correctly, and she after that did a few courses and she tried
hile in different things. But finally she did a course in digital marketing. And now she is doing pretty well for herself, Mashallah. And she's exploring options in the field of digital marketing, no correlation to what she did in graduation days, etc. So the point I'm trying to say is when situation is tough, and you have to survive, necessity becomes the mother of invention. So necessity leads you to taking decision, take those decision, invest in these small skills. If you feel you have creative urges in you, and you want to explore this option, take up a course on digital marketing, there's a big demand for that, because growing that is advertisement today social media,
you know, social media advertisement, and so on and so forth. content writing, can you do a course on content writing for yourself? Can you become a good content writer, can you understand the nuances required for being a content writer, you're good with your language, you can write well, but you don't know the nuances required for content writing. So you can do these courses in sha Allah Tala, which can benefit you. In addition to this, there is a growing demand and need for having SEO experts, SEO, SEO experts, not SEO, SEO, search engine optimization. When you type something on Google right now, and you search, if your company name does not pop up amongst the top 10, or top
20, or top 50, it means your company is not ranked by Google on the web page, it may still appear on Google. But it does not mean that is highly ranked. So what happens is when I have to search for training courses, I'm going to type the name of a company and search for training courses, when I type for training courses, and if it does not appear in the first two to three pages, highly unlikely that I'll keep on searching for another company, the search normally gets
limited to the first two to three pages, that's by that time people are ready to take a decision.
So you need to get people who will be able to push your website, your company's profile in these three pages, can you become one of those, that's a very interesting field, then you actually do a course on how to be an expert with SEO,
to a course on that, this business model for you. You can be a freelance, you can work for many companies, you can offer the services to many.
Alright, so I'm giving you these options over here as I'm talking to you. Because all of these skills, once you have become expert in applying and using it, you can actually sell your skills. All right, we'll talk more about that now, which are the sectors which you will feel will continue doing well in this recession period as well. If there is a recession in your country, or whenever you see an economic downturn, this topic is applicable for all time, because downturn can happen at any point of time, no country keeps on growing all the way till the end. And you know, there will be downward trends.
One of the sectors which I have always felt there has been a need, even in difficult time is the education sector. How does it work?
When the markets are doing well, and there is competition, and everyone's applying for a job, you want to stand out emirate you want to stand out, you want to make sure you get the job. So you are trying to get into the best universities, you're trying to make sure you get a higher level of qualification. So education sector remains in demand. What happens when there is a decline? When there is a decline, people are rushing back to the universities to upgrade themselves. That's what I just told you a while back, upgrade yourself. So people are going back to universities. So education sector is one of the unique sector which continues to remain in demand. By and large, even during
difficult times. People are ready to invest more on themselves so that they can get that spring that push to move to the next level, even in a downward economic trend. And this is a blessing of Almighty Allah subhanho wa Taala Allah subhanho wa Taala has blessed us Allah the most has blessed us that knowledge continues to remain in demand, whether the economy is going up or going down.
So education sector is something you need to look at. So if you're looking for jobs, you might even try your hand if you have the knowledge and the skills and now you're ready to move into a level where you can impart or share that knowledge. You can do it at a university level if you have the necessary qualifications, or you could be doing it at a high school level, depending on what your expertise are. Okay, um, I mean, we're keeping this wide open because we have students from different backgrounds today.
In addition to this, we're talking about medical professions as Okay before we come to medical profession
What about administrative jobs? Naturally, when there are more students applying etc, there will be demand for administrative jobs as well. So there is continuous requirements for administrative job. In addition to this, with COVID, the concept of learning has also tilted a bit alright, it's shifting slowly to online learning, learning in the virtual space. So can you actually bring in some expertise, because you're most of us at IU are students online. So, if you have studied in the virtual space, can you actually use that to get into a university where you can actually teach in a virtual space because you haven't had you will have been in that environment as a student. So, you
are better equipped to handle the challenges related to the virtual space. Now, that's as far as the education sectors are concerned.
Jobs, what are we trying to say we are basically saying that these are jobs that will cater to universal needs, whatever the situation is, any sector going up and down, there will continuously be demand for learning more. So you have to identify jobs, which are going to cater to universal needs, education caters to the university universe as a whole, everyone can come to a university and gain knowledge, right. So you need to identify universe jobs, which will cater to universal needs, you need to find jobs which are catering to important essential services. Now, essential services, we are going to talk about medical now first, and then we'll talk about other forms of essential
services medical field because of the COVID, which has taken place, there has been a rise in let's say demand for EMTs Alright, there has been a growing demand in many countries, where they want people who are EMTs to come and join them. So, if you are, let's say from the medical professional background, you need to identify which are the sectors where you can actually, you know, move in and make most for yourself. In addition to this, there is also demand for health, the health sector, with rising developments taking place in terms of saving lives of people,
there is more pressure on the health sector as well, because life is something that people are ready to literally go and ask for money to save lives.
You see, so, this is a sector which has a huge demand. And with more medical advancement taking place, the sector will continue to remain in demand. It's not like a tourism sector, which goes out of demand COVID the health sector was in demand, are we saying that they would have been no COVID health sectors would have been lying idle, no.
There's continuous demand which will be there. So, the demand will be at an administrative level also. So, if you are not a qualified doctor or a nurse, you will still be able to find a job if there is an administrative requirements and you fit the bill.
Alright, so sometimes you might be a business administrative, and you might have handled you know, these sectors or your specialization would be in sectors where you can actually handle the Diwan the challenges related to the hospital sectors etc. So, you can actually apply over there. In addition to all of this, you need to find jobs which are in demand in a specific sector. So another way of searching for jobs will be which other sectors which sectors which are doing well, if my sector is not doing well, let's say if the sector in which I am in is taking a downward trend if I'm in the automobile sector, and the automobile sector is running out of steam at this point of time, you do
recession, which is a sector which is doing well which is the sector which is growing which means they will have more demand coming up in the future, identify do a bit of search. We can all sit back, laid back and say we are resting everything on Allah subhanaw taala we are hoping Allah subhanho wa Taala will send in his help. He will not help you till you want to help yourself. You make the first effort, you make the move and Allah subhanaw taala is there to guide us he's there to show us the way put your Torkel in Allah trust in Allah and after that at the end. All right, again, another sector where you can be looking for jobs as the Islamic banking and financial services. The
Islamic banking and financial services sector has been a very fast growing sector. And with growing awareness happening amongst the Muslims, more and more Muslims are preferring to move to an Islamic bank to set up their account rather than choosing the conventional interest based bank or the secular Bayes banks. So when I know that there is a growing demand in the Islamic banking sector, can I actually do sessions and courses and skill gain skills on required thing
keys which are required in the Islamic banking sector. For example, if you're a student in Islamic studies or be in Islamic studies, you should be now looking on how you can use your titles, knowledge, leverage your knowledge, by moving into Islamic banking sector because there are a lot of demands for people who are experts. In terms of understanding Deen, and so on and so forth, you need to identify that you need to see where you can bridge the gap. If you're working in a conventional bank, if you're working in a secular bank, or you have knowledge in general finance, but you don't have knowledge on Islamic banking and finance. Maybe you can do a course with the International Open
University, a certificate course on Islamic banking and economics, which can work like a spring and push you to the next level.
You have a degree in Islamic banking and economics, but you don't have a knowledge in business administration do a certificate course do a shock diploma course acts like a spring pushes you to the next level.
All right, could be anywhere. I mean, I'm giving you the example of International Open University because we are in National Open University are offering you all of this. But beyond that, whichever part of the world you are in if there is something which let's reality doesn't offer, and you're looking for, look out, look out for opportunities, and then apply for that. Okay, so this is as far as the aspects are in terms of the sectors Alright, so for technical jobs, like we were talking about medical, there is a growing demand for pharmacists also. Alright, so if you can do that, I believe there is a qualification required to set up your own pharmacy. Some of those courses are
certificate courses. So you really don't need to do a degree based course identify what is the requirement? If I know that the pharmacy sector has a good demand, and I can do business using this knowledge? What is the thing required for me to set up my own pharmacy? Okay, maybe initially, I can hire somebody who's a qualified pharmacist to come and says, sit. But gradually, I can actually do that necessary qualification myself. So there is, as you can see, demand is there. You don't have to be hopeless, you don't have to feel things are all over for you challenges are going to be big. Yes, there will be challenges and challenges will remain all our lives. If our life would have been all
simple, then we would all be laid back and we would not express our gratitude to our Lord. The reason why we come back and express our gratitude to our Lord is because when we see the challenging situation around us, we realize the importance of the blessings that Allah subhanho wa Taala sent down upon us.
Alright, I hope these points appear to you. Now, the important point that I'm going to say before we will open up the forum for questions. And that is putting your trust in Allah subhanaw taala. He is a reserve. He is the one Allah is the one who's going to send you the provision. You think it's your knowledge, which will get you the job? Do you think it's a qualification, which will get you to the job? Do you think it's your skills, which will alone get you the job? No, they alone will not give you a job. Eventually, these are all going to add up. But eventually the job is going to come to you from your job. You're always seeing your effort. You put in the effort. When you acquire a knowledge
you acquire a skill, you acquire a learning you acquire qualification, you're putting in an effort. Allah sees you if
the job you're provisions will come from Allah subhanho wa taala. And therefore in this period of time, when we're talking about jobs,
you have to put your trust in Allah subhanaw taala.
It faith is extremely important. The worker is extremely important. Trust in God is extremely important.
Spirituality is an important aspect of a life of a common Muslim. This is what drives us to the next level
drives us to the level of growth.
Spirituality alone is not enough. You need many things along with spirituality. You need to have basic knowledge of the dunya as well so that you can survive in the dunya. But when you face challenges of the dunya Remember to hold fast to the rope of Allah.
Allah says in the Quran, to hold fast to the rope of Allah.
Wala to follow, go and do not be divided amongst yourself. Don't be divided, don't dispute with one another, over silly things and so on and so forth. remain together. Keep looking out for jobs and opportunities. If there are no jobs and opportunities, can you become a creator? Can you create a job for yourself? Can you create jobs for others?
Do you have that level of thinking that vision? Are you a visionary?
You need to be a visionary if you want to be successful in life and that is the note on which we are going to end
that you put your trust in God, you remember that he is watching you, he is ever watching you, and he sees you in which situation you are in, he sees you to the challenges you face, he sees you to the trouble you face. And he tells you and he assures you, he is not lie, your Kalief Allahu NAFSA, he will not put any burden on you, which you're not able to bear. He knows what steel you're made up of. And we all have that steel in us, he knows it. He's going to test us, he's going to, you know, when you have to give a direction to a steel, when you have to mold a steel, what do you do, you put it through a furnace of heat, Allah will put us through that furnace of heat so that we get the
right shape.
Don't lose hope. Don't run away. With that. We're going to conclude the initial presentation. And I'm going to invite you all to ask questions. If you have any. Avoid getting into technical questions, because it's not going to help others who are not from the technical background. Let's be on the topic and take questions on that. Thank you so much for attending the session. Now before the while you're typing your questions, and I'm waiting for the questions to come in. Here's a quick quick reminder to you the International Open University's CRP department invites companies and employers to come to the IOUs virtual campus and check out our students. Our students are graduating
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All right. Now Masek wants to know, middle class businesses should adapt to emerging economic conditions for students who should choose to do business should they? And should they? Oh, I'm trying to understand your question. When you say middle class businesses, you are saying that businesses are already established, then you say that students who are planning to do business? So I'm I'm getting a little confused. I'll address the students factor, right? Because that's of interest to me. And to those students who have joined here. What about students who are planning to do business? It's very simple. First and foremost, you need to do a feasible study and see whether
the business that you're planning to do what is the level of demand that it has in the market where you intend to function? That's the most basic rule. Now if you see that the demand in that particular sector is not there because of the economic outlook, etc.
See, where you can actually meet most identify where the demand is, if you're clueless what business should I start right now I have money. Some people, they have the knack to do business, whatever they touch is gold, but they don't know what to touch, they lost. So identify the business sectors which are doing well a D identify those sectors which will not be impacted by the economic crisis. Like give you an example of the health sector. I give you an example of the education sector. Okay. There can be many more sectors. I gave you examples about how many startups are coming. Many companies are now moving their marketing and promotion through the virtual space, social media, and
so on and so forth. Even if they hire you, they want you to be an SEO expert. They want a content writer, there's a growing demand for a content writer, a graphic designer, and so on and so forth. So all of these are in demand.
Now, can you actually work on this? Can you actually set up let's say, a firm, which has a group of graphic designers and IT experts and SEOs and those who can do coding of websites? Can you actually create a small team for yourself and now reach out to companies who need the services of yours? A lot of scope a lot of opportunities. Alright, so my said, I don't know whether that answered your question because you spoke about this. What businesses should students choose?
And yes, should they choose a business? In this economic outlook? Yes. Just because there's an economic downturn does not mean that you stop doing business, you have to look out for opportunities. As I said, necessity is the mother of invention, you have to do the effort, you can't say, Well, I'm waiting for the economic downturn to move to go away, you have to contribute to that, when you are setting up a business, you're spending some money, that some money is going to help the economic push back. Okay. So that's an important one that I was trying to make.
A, how would the investments fair in such conditions now, of course, you will have to give a longer period for the investments to come back. Alright. I believe in self funding, I am not in favor of going forward to banks and borrowing money and high interest rates, etc. Or taking money from third persons on loan and then doing it putting more pressure on yourself. You know,
you need to find out how much surplus is you have used that surplus judiciously to do the business. If I know that my surplus is X amount, let's say 100 100 amount $100, for example. And I know that this economic downturn will take at least a year and a half to come back to original level. Remember, it shoots up like a rocket settled down like a fed that takes time to come back to normal levels. So when I know it's gonna take 18 months, I need to make sure that this amount of money I'm able to spread over 18 months so accordingly, and will expand myself grow myself.
Okay, that's addressing mastered squarey master this as more question but I'm going to allow others to come in as well.
Okay, I'm a full time students at IU I do brand strategy and brand identity design on this, I'd like to know your opinion whether this is a good way. Of course, we just focus on that. I mean, firms at this point of time, will focus more on branding on more on projecting themselves as a solution provider. So branding is a very good field when which you are and of course if there are technical aspects which are required to further up your skills and knowledge, you should do that while you continue to work. You should try and invest a bit on your skills and develop your skills. Because remember, you're continuously facing competition from the new one ones who are graduating now are
coming up with latest knowledge. You are continuously competing with these people. So if you're already in the field, you need to find ways to upgrade yourself, stay on top of the competition. That is how you stay on top of the competition. If you don't upgrade yourself continuously, you will be forgotten in the annals of the history. All right, so you need to take care of that.
Okay, what are my expectation in terms of job opportunities as an Islamic banker? Have I mentioned to you how the Islamic banking sector is doing even in this period of time there is a growing awareness it is one of the growing it is growing at a fast rate fast pace yes economic downturn does impact financial services as well. So you will find Islamic banking slowing down in the growth but you don't tend to find negative growth as such because there is continuous growing demand amongst the Muslim world and there is still a large chunk of Muslim population which are still not using the services but there is a growing awareness so you need to cash in on that of a unawareness alright
that people have and you need to identify necessary skills for this I would request you to contact the Islamic banking and economics department that we have at the International pin University we can speak to its head his head will be the our head over there we'll be able to guide you better on what are the things which you can be focusing on in the sector inshallah Tala by the way you can also get in touch with me if you need assistance.
Okay, how about job opportunities in alternative medicine sector like acupuncture and therapies? Now since Gita on this question, I will say that I don't know what are the licenses firstly required does the government of the day gives license to these alternative medicine some alternative medicines do not have licenses to function. And so you need to check on that in the local country where you are the legal laws etc because you don't want to do anything which is going against the law of the land. So you have to stick to the law of the land and function. Now yes, you have given a very good example that if there are things like acupuncture and cupping for example, the hijama
therapy or cupping therapy
gained the necessary knowledge and skill I know of a very good friend of mine. Very good business that he is doing and continues to do that Masha Allah Baraka, Allah. It's in the field of garments. He's doing very well for himself. He's got a business running for years now. And at the same time, he and his spouse, they did it
Course on cupping therapy and they have kept on upgrading themselves. And today most of the time go on providing services on in the sector. And there are people who are worth walking in from all walks of life from all communities, all professions, it's not only Muslims who are coming in there are people from sports, film stars and actors, everyone is flocking to him to come for cupping therapy and so on and so forth. So yes, if you find that you have that knack, and you have that delicate you know, these are things which requires a soft hand. So if you think that you can be gentle with your clients in terms of carrying out these cupping, and acupuncture etc, and it's legal in your country,
please go ahead and do the necessary skills required but learn the knowledge Okay, to a professional It can't be just YouTube Yes, YouTube is a good for starters, but unless you have you're certified you have a certificate for somebody who's an expert, you should avoid it.
Or writing of a business plan is something else altogether. So I'm going to skip that question Ollie, but you can get in touch with me alright, so you can get in touch with me separately I can assist you with writing of a business plan all right.
Paula wants to know that she wants to know anything okay, fella fella has said it's an enlightening session on the current economic situation. Thank you for Allah for attending the session um do wants to say mashallah, you've pointed exactly the best way where we should focus Joseph Allah heron. Okay. BarakAllahu li Rahman is from taka he doesn't have any question.
Knowing Turkey's war on interest and its promotion on participation bank, Sharia compliant banks, is it worth keeping the money in them while getting profit and also the Turkish ruler rebounding?
Good investment. Now this is something where I must confess that I have not had a chance to study much about the show the Sharia participation, banks that they are coming up with and etc. I know that Turkey is focusing but then like Turkey, many other countries Middle East is also focusing on Islamic Sharia banks. So is far east in Malaysia and Indonesia, and even Singapore for that matter, is focusing and in fact, globally, other countries are also focusing on Islamic Sharia bank because they see there is a demand for it, they know that their customers are ready to buy the product. Turkey amongst them is as well, Africa is doing very well as well. There are a lot of African
countries who have been looking at ways to set them up in shallow Tala. For Turkey, I've not had a chance to study about what are the models that they are using. So if there's anything specific that is there in your mind relating to jobs, etc, working with them, if you can share details about a couple of banks, where you're looking at jobs, send me the URL, send me some documents on them write ups on them, I will inshallah be able to analyze and get back to you. But without that I will not be able to commend alright, I don't want to mislead you. So I'm going to avoid answering that question for now.
I will job opportunities we in in India for laborers and entrepreneurs. Now, you see with India, there is a very good thrust on what is called the making India brand. Now, there are continuous focus on the making India brand and therefore, you will see lot of startups coming in. And India does have lots of startups, it has a conducive environment for startups. So if you are a budding entrepreneur, you want to start off, India is a good place to start off, there's lots of opportunities available for you, as far as the labor market etc is concerned in terms of jobs and so on and so forth. Much like other economies getting affected, India might see some of it sector
getting influenced because India does provide services to a lot of European countries in the West, and as well as in the West. So naturally those jobs might see that there will be some level of job cuts which will take place, but then this is not something which will be unique to India, it is happening globally. So keeping all of those factors in mind, while the job market should, by and large, be moderately good, but you will see some impact taking place here as well. But we hope there is no such impact. And people don't have to lose jobs and people continue to, you know, flourish and do well for themselves. The key to the downtown I have already shared with you. The key is
investment in yourself. If you have that picture clear in your mind. If you are attending this session for an easy solution, that I'll attend monsoon session and he'll give me a solution class. I have the key I go open the key. Unlock the treasures. That's not what I'm willing to do. It's a treasure hunt. I'm inviting you to the treasure hunt.
You invite I'm inviting you through gaining of knowledge, invest in knowledge
invest in your skills
and put trust in Allah subhanho wa taala. All right, so that's the treasure hunt that I have invited you to. All right. Any other questions? Yeah, let's see. What do you think about the clothing sector? And I just lost it. Just give me a moment.
Yeah. What do you think about the clothing sector in the Middle East? Do you think it has a negative impact? Economic impact in Middle East? We are planning to start a more modest clothing business in Saudi Arabia and Medina Inshallah, Donna. Okay, a very interesting question, because I have you not been in the Middle East. And I have spent a few months of it recently, and I've been seeing how the demand is, and I've Hamdulillah I see that people are buying, people are buying. There's a big demand in the Middle East. Middle UAE, for example, is a melting point. So you know, people are coming from everywhere, the tourism sector in UAE is doing well. So when people are traveling to UAE
in big numbers, and tourism is doing well, naturally, there will be a tendency to buy things when people go on tourism, they don't just simply like to go around. That's it. They like to buy something as well. So there will be of course,
a demand which will be there. I already told you that Middle East African countries, South Asia are expected to survive this period. Well, they're not supposed to get very deeply impacted. So we're not looking at these economies getting impacted badly. The garment sector the clothing sector, is continuing to thrive. I see them doing very well. For Medina, when you say modest outfit, I'm assuming you're still planning to set up new jobs, etc. Hijab is something which has a huge demand if that is what you're looking at planning ahead when you said moderate, modest out clothing.
That's what you said, right? What did you say? You said modest clothing business. So if you're planning to do something to do with a job and a buyers and so on and so forth, then remember that there is an existing market already over there. There are plenty of players already over there at the same time. Hajin o'mara has again opened up Sahaja Nomura is happening people are coming there people will buy if your shop has got a good location. Your business has a good location and it has a good price to offer a competitive price to offer you will be able to do well for yourself. But remember the key to doing business is patience sub. If you don't have patience, alas, it will do if
you start a business people start a business hoping that in one month, two month three month they'll start seeing the return doesn't happen. If that would have been the cave case, Steve Jobs wouldn't be Steve Jobs Bill Gates when we will get the Amazon founder would not have been able to start Amazon Go to their history and see how many times they tried their hands and different things before they settled for something. You have to have somewhere and patience. things don't work out like this. If everything would work out like this for us. Everyone would have a very high level of happiness index, but we don't we're going to stress and that stress sticks out the best in us so let
the stress be the half suburb of patience Wait, if you're doing the right thing you're in the right direction you know there are people to guide you and and people around you are positive.
Keep moving in that direction shallow. Tada. Alright, so all the best for your clothing business. Ahmed Masha, Allah Tamara, let me Allah subhanho wa Taala give you success in that.
Kemal salifu has joined us from Ghana thank you so much. We have people joining us from different parts today. And as I told you that diversity is something which is special about the International Open University mashallah debacle. We have students from all parts of the world okay, there's a student who joined us from
okay stood Why are you doing a BA in Islamic Studies and want to teach the deen what I learned here? Is this qualification enough if I am to fly into Saudi Arabia or what are the qualification do I need no just to be in Islamic Studies is not going to be enough if you want to plan to study at a higher level. If you want to teach university student then you need to at least strive to have at least a master's and then pursue a higher study a PhD, a doctorate in philosophy you have to then only you will be able to teach. Doing a bachelor's is not enough to start teaching. Please understand that bachelors does not give you a license to teach a B it does give you teaching skills,
but knowledge does not come early by doing a bachelor's course please understand that you need to have at least a master's in that level. You need to at least start off as but with bachelors learning a bachelor degree and start learning teaching it. People who are teachers have probably put that into practice and learn from the experience. Today when I'm talking to you. I am sharing with you my experiences when I used to work I was sharing with you about things which I learned at my workplace challenges which I've gone through and now I'm in a position where I can teach all of this to you so I bring in with myself my experience. So I would suggest
If you're learning the knee deep, you're learning the knowledge of the dean, don't stop now continue at the next level. Don't be in a rush to stop here. If you are in a situation where you need to start earning immediately, then do start sharing some of the knowledge with students at primary school level or admit school level, maybe even high school level but that is not that is it, you will not be in a position to teach beyond that because with just a bachelor's, you will not be able to teach undergraduate students leave alone graduate students at a higher level. Okay, so I hope that has been helpful. There's another question of relating to it somehow is I missed it out so I'm
not being able to locate it right now.
Okay, but in conclusion, I mean, there are no further questions which comes to bear has asked the question how can a student who study Arabic explore or have lovely question how can a student lose learn to Arabic explore opportunities, there's so many requirements for translation Do you know that there are books which are getting translated there are there are classical books which are in Arabic, which are not translated, maybe you can work on translation of them. There are books which are written in other languages, which you might have a knowledge of which you can help in translation into Arabic, find out get in touch with publishers, identify these publishers, contact
publishers if they are looking looking for somebody who has the skills for translation. In addition to this, there are a lot of jobs which are available where you need to do translation, you know, the Middle East documents, etc, which come in Arabic translation services are required. So you can actually look out for those jobs as well. And of course, if you've learned the language of Arabic, put it to practice, put it to use, and then start sharing the knowledge as well. Alright, so maybe you can start your own center where you start teaching kids with basics initially and gradually moving to the next level. All right, thank you so much for your time and attending the session.
BarakAllahu li comm all of you have taken out your time on a Sunday evening. And I would like to thank you once again. Remember the corporate Connect session takes place regularly with the International Open University. We look forward to inviting industry experts as well. If you have any specific preference who you would like to invite for these sessions and you can put us through them please do that inshallah Tala we will get in touch with them and get them over for your benefit one free to the check and see whether you know they can benefit the larger audience at the IOU I wish you all the best. The International Open University is going through its revision session weekend
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