Those who have ever read the New Testament and have come across the Gospel according to Saint Matthew, specifically in chapter 5 of verse 3 to 12, will have observed from a Christian perspective the qualities that people will have to be considered worthy candidates for enter the Kingdom of Heaven, according to the words spoken by Jesus himself. The vision of these spiritual qualities are masterfully expounded by Mark Copeland and translated into Spanish by Nicolás Hernández in a religious dissertation on that version of the Christian faith.
However, without trying to cover the philosophical and transcendental knowledge of Jesus of Nazareth, whose words and truths remain unchanged over time, it is possible to extrapolate the beatitudes of the Sermon on the Mount to the labor field and describe in eight statements the competencies that, In general terms, employable professionals must possess at least until many of the existing paradigms evolve enough to make way for other elements that are also of interest, since as knowledge progresses, most of the elements which are described below will be universal domain and practice.
The 8 job beatitudes not only point out the competence that human talent must possess in the present and in the immediate future that awaits, but they dare to establish the benefits that will redound to the people who display them. These are:
1. Blessed are those who speak more than one language, because they will connect with the world
The world has changed so much in the last fifty years that it is difficult to summarize in a few lines what this means.
These changes have produced a variation in the concept of the professional that is far from the one that dominated industrial thought in the past; Nowadays you have to have a broad-spectrum multicultural mentality and this responds to simply being in the presence of a world without borders.
This reality, mainly supported by technology, also requires the modern professional to be able to unfold in any scenario and stand out as an entity capable of generating empathy with its interlocutors, understanding that likewise the semantics of the regions of a country must be known in order to not to dazzle in internal negotiations or exchange experiences, there is the same requirement to address foreign scenarios where the language is different from the mother tongue.
Although it is true that there is an important predominance of the English language and its use is practically universal, it is no less true that knowing a language other than your own is not enough and it is necessary, at least, to be able to communicate in a third language.
This reality is not new, several centuries ago the paradigm of existing societies understood the need to know several languages, regardless of whether it was the enemy or the conquered lands, as that ensured that they were kept informed and trained to face any demand.
This almost forgotten paradigm is reaffirmed in this globalized world and that is why every day there are more professionals learning languages such as Japanese, English, French, Russian and German, while their representatives study Spanish, Portuguese and Italian., to name a few.
A complete professional is one who fully develops the competences he or she possesses and understands that the more he communicates and the better he does, the greater the chance of success.
This competence also opens doors to employment, since having the ability to communicate in several languages opportunities will multiply geometrically for those interested in venturing into other settings.
2. Blessed are those who know programs and systems, because they will never lack a tool
When talking about homo cyberneticus began in the nineties in the twentieth century, the concept associated with such expression could have been misinterpreted, since it was not an eminently technological generation that would dethrone the analogical vision that prevails in society, transforming it into obsolete everything previously known.
On the contrary, the vision of this “evolution” consisted primarily of the knowledge and skills that the professional had to possess in the technological field, both present and past, keeping their attention on the changes that the future brings.
Currently, a significant number of programmers and experts in systems that do not handle current programs and modern systems can be seen. Their specialty, although existing, has been reduced, narrowing the market where they must operate, this has occurred because there has been no orientation to the update.
However, such oversight does not seem to be exclusive to programming and systems professionals, young professionals tend not to worry about knowing how machines operated in the past and some mature professionals want little or nothing about new technologies, this puts at risk the transfer of knowledge and the development of technological skills, since in extreme situations both parties would be disabled.
Likewise, it seems that the need to deepen technological knowledge has not been fully understood, some companies are oriented to developing only skills in handling spreadsheets, word processors and electronic presentation formats for a large part of their staff, but They reject the possibility of increasing the participation of the same in technical conferences that prepare them for the programming and development of systems, obviating the principle of managing the use of technology proposed by Cybergerencia, which assumes that the use of the systems is not exclusive of a group of individuals but of the entire environment.
The contemporary professional must measure up to technological knowledge without it being understood that he or she must have an expert level, but just as knowledge of accounting and financial principles is required to run a business, along with marketing and advertising Knowing systems, both past and present, and being attentive to future ones, will offer you a place of honor that will differentiate you from those who resist moving forward and from those who consider that knowing the origin of things is a waste of time..
3. Blessed are those who value people, because they will be leaders
Once the premise that says: "people are the company" is fully assimilated, many of the managerial deficiencies present in contemporary organizations will disappear immediately.
As proposed in the World Congress of Human Resources in Mexico held in 2002, the vision that companies must develop must be oriented to "return to the people" and this means granting all importance and value that she owns. Simply without people there is no company.
That is why those professionals who develop a true sensitivity to this concept, are inclined to seek the benefit of people, without this implying exaggerated sacrifices in the management of the business and know how to manage the skills and abilities of people to allow them to intervene in The destiny of the organizations will end up being considered true circumstantial leaders and their influence on the staff will generate true extraordinary results.
Otherwise, and as long as personnel continue to be viewed as a simple "resource" to achieve the business vision without actually involving them in the process, leadership will continue to be exercised vertically and under the premise of the formal leader imposed by the hierarchy of your position in the company.
Organizations are changing, it is becoming more important every day to value people because in doing so the professional is evaluating himself, therefore those who assume that position will be worthy of being imitated and followed.
4. Blessed are those who have knowledge, experience and add value, because they will always be busy
The new selection paradigms and the new vision of job stability are opening a door for professionals, both those who are certified and those who have accumulated significant intellectual capital and a similar number of skills.
The (immediate) future will be dominated by those who manage knowledge from a holistic perspective, individuals whose capacity for multi-skill and wisdom will allow them to move from one scenario to another, guaranteeing the quality of the product or service and without losing the ability to innovate.
This human talent will know what is necessary of everything that is involved with their work without being labeled as "the one who does everything" because their expertise will be oriented to a specific vision.
Obviously, organizations will have to adjust their processes to the presence of these individuals, making their schedules more flexible, concepts of job performance and guaranteeing a significant percentage of social life.
5. Happy are those who thirst for wisdom, because they will never be obsolete
Those who have not understood that the (immediate) future will be dominated by knowledge and its implementation, will simply be isolated from the labor community, which will constantly demand the presence of updated and avant-garde data.
Every day the certification of knowledge will become more necessary, not only in the traditional way, through academic studies, but the organizations or schools existing in each field will begin to intervene directly, and even in a related way, since as It has already been pointed out that professionals will have to venture into those areas related to their specialty and therefore will have to be certified in them with the same level of demand.
In this sense, all those who constantly renew or deepen their knowledge will be the first to obtain and maintain professional certification that will keep them updated and attractive to the market, regardless of the subjective limitations present in the current selection, since for the world of work, they will never they will be obsolete.
But it is evident that this will apply spontaneously only at the beginning and while it takes time to understand the need to maintain direct contact with past, present and growing knowledge, which will be easy for those who have assimilated such responsibility, later it will be an exclusive requirement. and inescapable.
6. Happy are those who learn from their mistakes, because they will be called experts
Managing mistakes will be a competitive and comparative advantage for the professional of the new millennium.
Just as successes are documented today, so much more reason and sense will errors be documented, studied and discussed to find clever ways to capitalize on failure and avoid repetition.
Error will begin to be seen as an experience that requires the implementation of various managerial competencies: reflection, responsiveness, decision-making, immediate planning and risk sensitivity, which will hardly be experienced with the same intensity when only known success.
Those who experience mistakes and learn from them will become the ideal experts that companies require, people with the sharpness necessary to observe the weak points of a system and who are fully aware of the possible consequences and distortions that an error generates.
7. Happy are those who accept changes, because they will always be pioneers
Those individuals who see the changes as an opportunity to grow, as the result of a stage that ends and another that begins, offering those who experience it that feeling of uncertainty that requires a positive attitude, full of excellence, attention, dedication and dedication, they will be the most apt to survive in the contemporary world where the only constant will be to change.
The ability to stay afloat before the different waves that the professional of the 21st century and the coming centuries will experience, will be an enviable and imitable competition by the vast majority.
Beliefs brought about by changes such as lack of consistency will collapse, since those who accept the changes will always have a clear vision in mind, they will know exactly where the changes are heading and they will circumvent the changes to achieve their goals, using them as tools of success.
To be a pioneer is to accept the challenge of uncertainty, and change is the result of uncertainty and vice versa, therefore, those who look with pleasure at the presence of change will be happy, because they will be successful in any scenario.
8. Happy are those who break paradigms, because they will build a better tomorrow
Accepting the rules of the game does not mean sharing them, sometimes you have to learn enough about a rule to have the strength to break it. If this were not the case, man would still live in caves, walk naked and eat hunting, gathering and fishing in the most basic expressions of his concepts.
Thanks to those who have dared to say, do, and develop what jeopardized the status quo, significant advances have been made in the sciences, arts, societies, and cultures.
But breaking a paradigm merits responsibility and judgment.
A rule cannot be altered by simple whim or mere distraction, because the shock wave that generates a change in the vision of things can create ideological barriers that generate a lot of damage or expressions of debauchery that end up unbalancing a system.
Paradigms are broken to advance in the evolutionary scale of thought and action, it is known that the right thing has been done when the result of the alteration generates well-being in those who experience it without distinguishing any condition, otherwise a paradigm but a rule has been relaxed.
The working world in which we currently live will be perfectly synchronized with the social life of the human being, this constant equilibrium relationship will require people capable of observing the paradigms as evolutionary steps whose overcoming will generate a higher state and therefore the elements will disappear. that make the present order imperfect and questionable, that is why they will be happy those who consciously and responsibly propose innovative ways of observing, living and facing the (immediate) future because they will demonstrate that that tomorrow full of chaos and destruction that is usually imagined it will be very distant from what man has to build.
Final thoughts
As it could be observed, nothing new has been said, just as Jesus did in his sermon, the qualities of the employable professional have always been the same, but obviously they have been adjusted to the time they were required, today they are it demands to be more attentive to the new knowledge without it means to dismiss the past knowledge.
Much has been said about the capacity and multi-ability that the individual must possess, but sometimes it is seen more from the perspective of how it benefits the company than from the point of view of the personal benefit that it generates. One of the contributions of the eight work beatitudes is that the competence is described and the benefit of having it is pointed out, again in analogy to the Christian beatitudes, therefore the individual is being offered the opportunity to reflect on their potentialities and promote their development and organizations are being encouraged to value them in the right way.
