Employment Programs
Members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints are taught the value of work and follow the command to work and provide for the needs of their families. Work also gives a person the opportunity to develop talents. Sometimes finding a job may be difficult because of the area in which a person lives or because that person has not had the opportunity to develop marketable skills. This is why the Church offers Employment Centers.
The purpose of LDS Employment centers is to help people get marketable skills to get a good job, start a small business, or improve a business they already have. In 1999 the Church approved increasing the number of Church employment centers. There are now Church Employment Centers in 43 countries around the world. There are 103 in the United States and Canada and 153 in other countries of the world.
In 2004 Church employment centers helped 45,830 people get into schools to gain needed skills, 145,572 people were placed in jobs, and employment centers helped 9,432 people become self-employed. All of this was done with the help of unpaid volunteers. Missionaries provided 731,008 hours of service in employment centers, and members in the area provided another 351,116 hours of service. That makes a total of 1,082,124 service hours in 2004 alone.
At the employment centers people are able to learn various techniques that will help them find a job or reach their career goals. One way this is done is through career workshops. In the workshops, the first step that is taught is to create, evaluate, and set goals. The next part of the workshop is to identify and develop resources needed to meet the goals, then learn how to make good impressions while networking, in interviews, on resumes, and applications. The final part of the workshop is to learn how to grow in a new job. The workshop has been very successful in helping people find jobs quickly with better pay.
See also Perpetual Education Fund
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