Contact the stake employment specialist or high councilor assigned to welfare to arrange for training.

Participate in the stake employment effort.

Help leaders understand career self-reliance principles, by sharing them in such settings as ward and stake welfare committee meetings, as invited. Encourage leaders to train members in these principles.

Serve as a resource person for your unit’s welfare committee, help develop a plan for providing employment assistance in your unit, receive reports from the committee on member needs and resources, and report on members’ progress toward achieving their goals

Hold meetings with individuals in need.

• Teach them career self-reliance principles and help them set goals. Goals may be developed using the Career Assessment and Plan (CAP) 31485
• Discuss community, Church, and member resources that can help them.
• From the Career Assessment and Plan (CAP) 31485 set immediate action goals using suggested resources.
• Set the next appointment, making sure that too much time does not pass between appointments.
• Inform priesthood leaders and encourage the bishop or quorum leader to assign mentors to assist needy members.
• Consult with other employment specialists, as needed.

When follow-up meetings are held:

• Review the individual’s progress toward achieving his or her goals.
• Help him or her review action plans and determine next steps.
• Provide encouragement.
• Set the next appointment.
• Inform priesthood leaders, as needed.

Know the resources of your unit’s members (the Lord’s storehouse), where they are working, and what skills they have. Compile this information in a useful format. Use these member contacts to identify employment resources and opportunities and share them with members in need.

Be in touch with members you are assisting at least once per week to follow up on their activities.

Contact the stake employment specialist at least weekly to review member needs and to share resources and opportunities in the ward, stake, and region.

Promote and/or sponsor group resource information meetings (see reverse side for details).

Prepare a monthly placement/activity report and submit it to your ecclesiastical leader, with a copy to the stake employment specialist or assigned high councilor.

If serving as a stake employment specialist, also do the following:

• Contact the nearest employment resource center (ERC) to arrange for training.
• Organize and train those called to work in the stake employment effort, such as ward employment specialists and others called to assist you.
• With the permission of stake leadership, contact the stake’s bishops monthly to obtain the names of ward leaders and returning missionaries in need. Share this information as needed with the ERC staff.
• Where ward employment specialists are called, contact them at least weekly to review member needs and to share between you resources and opportunities in the ward, stake, and region.
• Offer the Career Workshop for needy stake members once per month or as needed.
• Keep the high councilor assigned to welfare informed of stake employment activities.
• Send a report of your placements/activities to the stake president and copy the ERC.