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Career Ministries Overview
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How to start a career ministry at your church!
The best way to start a career ministry to help unemployed church members is to start by contacting Joe Jones at Career Ministries. He has gathered the best job ministry practices from churches across the US, and put those job search training and support processes in place at churches ranging in size from 200 members to 8,000 members. He can tailor a ministry plan that fits your church size and resources.
Many churches help their unemployed (and “under employed”) members by sponsoring a seven hour faith based “Quick Start” job search workshop followed by weekly support group meetings. Career Ministries provides the instruction and materials to start the program. They may then train your volunteers to sustain the program. This process is tested and proven to be the most successful program for helping people find work.
What is your church doing to help your members at their greatest point of need?And what is unemployment costing your church now? The unemployment crisis is huge and costing churches more than they realize. For example, a church with 500 members is losing well over $50,000 per year in lost tithes! And that doesn’t include the increase in benevolence funds expended by churches to support their unemployed members! Nor does it include the stress that affects each family of the unemployed.
Contrary to popular belief, there are jobs out there – you just have to know how to land them! Yet over 80% of job seekers waste time and money on ineffective and outdated job search strategies! When a person is unemployed who makes $40,000 per year, it costs that person $154 per day! The cost to give that same person the job search training they need to find work will only cost from $18 to $105, if we do the training. Even less if we train your facilitators to do the training!
Recent testimonial from a workshop participant:
“Joe, years ago I was in the same situation as a transitioning professional and my wife got into a placement agency which cost us $6,000 and was not as thorough as your presentation was Saturday. Keep up the good work!
Ed Stohr"
Bell Shoals Baptist Church “Quick Start” workshop participant, March 21, 2009
These are great community outreach programs! This is one ministry that virtually pays for itself as members go back to work and can support their families and their church. If church budgets are a problem, some churches ask the workshop participants to donate the cost of the workshop back to the church after they get a job.
1. The “Quick Start” Job Search workshop covers everything a person needs to know to begin an effective job search campaign the next day. The workshop takes 7 hours (usually offered on Saturdays) and covers the following topics:
- Managing the Stress of Job Loss and Job Search
- Career Transition Strategies
- The Best Job Search Strategies
- Developing A Job Search Action Plan
- Job Networking
- Writing Cover Letters and Resumes
- Developing Your Portfolio
- Winning the Interview Game
- Salary/Compensation Negotiation Strategies
These Quick Start workshops may be led by Career Ministries, or your church volunteer facilitators who have been trained and certified by Career Ministries.
Call for a quote from Career Minsitries! 813-960-1876
The need for job search training and support has never been greater.
Call Career Ministries today for a consultation to discover what you can do to help your members find the work that God designed for them!
Career Ministries is a 501(c3) non profit organization based in Tampa, Florida. www.careerministries.com 813-960-1876 Joe Jones, Executive Director
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