October Crossroads Newsletter

CCNewsletter October 2014 In this Issue... Resume experiment reveals religious discrimination   Try Our Expanded Online Resume Builder Signup for Small Group Online Class Oct 7 Buy Fifty Get Something Nifty Improved Email & Text to Your Explorers and Employers Important Changes with Place Assesment.    Resume Experiment Reveals  Religious Discrimination Should you put your church or ministry activities in your resume?  It depends! Religion at Work in America  Religious discrimination may be growing in America.  The number of complaints considered by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) increased from 1,709 in 1997 to 3,721 in 2013. To shed light on this issue, social researcher Bradley Wright at the University of Connecticut sent 9600 resumes to 2400 job postings.  Half of the resumes included just one more additional word, such as, Catholic, Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Pagan, Atheist.  The other half went with no reference to religion.* Resumes with religion got 40% fewer responses!   Religion in Your Resume?  Click here for the Full Story  Try Our Expanded Online Resume Builder Only from Crossroads Career Network, super-simple chronological and functional resume templates with cover letters format. Free, saved on your career dashboard, ready to send to any one or more of the 155,000 jobs from over 2,000 employer on our job connection service.  Login to CrossroadsCareer.org and go to your Resume Tab.  Or follow the link to the new video tutorial. VIDEO TUTORIAL Signup Now for Small Group Online Class Oct 7 7-STEP, FAITH-BASED, CHRIST-CENTERED CAREER DEVELOPMENT AND JOB SEARCH LED BY MAVERICK MARTIN With a sense of humor and a solid Biblical foundation, Maverick Martin brings career development and job search principles to life. Maverick facilitates Crossroads Career workshops locally in Wisconsin and worldwide via video conferencing. He has facilitated dozens of workshops helping many people discover who God created them to be and then discover the path that He also created for them. Maverick is a former Senior Quality Engineer for Lockheed Martin, and he now lives in Wittenberg, WI with his wife JuLee and two fat kitties. Connect with others in a small group from around the country. Meeting via video conference for one hour each week to learn the seven steps to find jobs, careers, and God’s calling.  Explore how God made you His masterpiece, created for good works which He has prepared for you.  Discover how your work can be worship through this faith-based, Christ-centered approach to career development and job search. The next 7-week class begins Tuesday, Oct 7, 11:00 AM Eastern Sign up now at our online store Buy Fifty get Something Nifty  BUY 50 workbooks and get 5 free mugs   Cold weather’s coming.  Heat up your ministry team with hot drinks in super-sealed and spill-proof Crossroads Career mugs. Push the button on top to sip.  Push again and not a drop will drop.  Order a box of 50 workbooks by Oct 31, we will also send you five mugs as long as supply lasts.  Go to our store now.           Improved  Email & Text Your Explorers & Employers Now you can sort your Explorer, Employer and Ministry lists by date.  Maybe you want to send a message to just the current class or last years group or just the new active employers.  Login or register for the new "COMMUNICATE” tab on your Dashboard.  If you have questions, call Cory at 800-941-3566 or email support@crossroadscareer.org.   PLACE ASSESMENT NO LONGER FREE Two ways get discounts and more 1.  Give Promo Code for Individual Assessments at 1/3 Off We are grateful for Place Ministries generosity over the years by offering Crossroads Career explorers free assessments, but we also understand that high volumes and rising costs required revision of the program.  Explorers can get 1/3-Off promo code for individual Place assessment for a net cost of only $9.95 at the www.crossroadscareer.org/Place  2.  Get Your Own PLACE Assessment Center  By John Gray, Crossroads Career Ministry Leader First Baptist Church Jacksonville, FL foghsphr.gray1@gmail.com Recently we were blessed when one of our ministry supporters provided funds to offer Place Assessments to our church’sCAREER EXPLORERS.   I called Place Ministries representative Barbara Valerioti at (877) 463-2863, and found even more discounts - plus we could have our own Place Assessment Center webpage.  Here’s what it looks like: http://fbcjax.mobilyzr.com.  This allows us to send interested CAREER EXPLORERS directly to take the assessment.  Following their completion of the assessment… Click for the Full Story on Crossroads Career Network LinkedIn Leadership Teams Group Questions: Call Cory @ 800-941-3566 or email cory@crossroadscareer.org