Worship & Job Conflicts
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<p>All who commit to worship by the Biblical<br />
calendar will find that this decision greatly impacts nearly every area of<br />
their lives. For most, the problem of<br />
scheduling work around the Sabbath immediately arises. Learn the skills needed for negotiating<br />
accommodations for both work and school.</p>
Students & Teachers
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<![endif]--><span>Keeping the lunar Sabbath can be difficult for students because the<br />
school year is regulated by the civil Gregorian calendar.<span> </span>Even those in advanced schooling, or those<br />
taking exams for professional licenses may find it necessary to ask for special<br />
accommodation.<span> </span>Following are several letter<br />
templates you can use for making such requests.<span> </span>Modify as needed to fit your own individual circumstances.</span></p>
Letters to Employers
<p>WLC is pleased to provide several different<br />
letters that may be used when requesting your employer for accommodation for<br />
keeping the holy days. Modify to fit your personal information, print<br />
off, and send!</p>
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Résumés
<p>A well-written résumé is an essential<br />
first-step to gaining an interview. Write a résumé that highlights all<br />
you have to offer a prospective employer. Sample résumés have been<br />
provided for your review.</p>
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<p><img decoding="async" alt="résumé tips" style="margin-left: 10px" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/static.worldslastchance.org/2025/08/resumes-1.png" align="right" height="617" width="250">A well written résumé is an<br />
important tool for obtaining an interview. <br />
A recruiter scanning through a stack of submitted résumés spends an<br />
average of 10 seconds on each one before going to the next. It is vitally important that what you present<br />
in <em>your</em> résumé captures the attention<br />
of the prospective employer in those 10 seconds.</p>
<p>A résumé should be no more<br />
than one page. It is a <em>summary</em> of your educational and work<br />
experience, not your life history. Your<br />
résumé should contain your personal contact information as well, so that the<br />
prospective employer can contact you if he/she wants to invite you to an<br />
interview. </p>
<p>Every<br />
résumé should have one of two sections right at the beginning: an Objective or<br />
a Summary. For people just starting out<br />
in the work force or those who do not have a lot of work experience an<br />
objective statement should be written. <br />
For those who have already established a solid career and have prominent<br />
work experience, a summary statement should be used instead. A summary is basically a longer version of<br />
the objective statement and can be very useful for impressing the recruiter<br />
with the significant attainments one has already achieved in one’s work experience.</p>
<p>Be<br />
sure to include all dates in your schooling and previous work experience. To exclude any has the appearance of covering<br />
up something you do not want the recruiter to know about, such as having been<br />
fired from a job. On the other hand,<br />
those with extensive work experience do not need to expound at length on<br />
details of work experiences and achievements that are not relative to the<br />
position sought. Only those details that<br />
relate directly to the position you are applying for should be included.</p>
<p>When writing your résumé, ask a friend<br />
or your spouse to look over it. Nothing<br />
impresses prospective employers <em>less</em><br />
than mistakes, grammatical errors and misspelled words on the very piece of<br />
paper you are using to try to convince them that you are the best for the job. Mistakes, grammatical errors and misspelled<br />
words are a major reason why many résumés get rejected. The recruiter will assume that if you are<br />
that careless and sloppy on such an important document, you will be careless<br />
and sloppy in any work you perform for the business.</p>
<p>Once<br />
you have written your résumé, do not consider it a masterpiece that never needs<br />
any more work. Résumés should be<br />
frequently updated. Each job for which<br />
you are applying will have a job description. <br />
After determining if you have the skills and experience to qualify,<br />
modify your résumé to emphasize what you have to offer that meets their<br />
requirements. Take the job description,<br />
reword it in your own words, and incorporate that into your résumé.</p>
<p>Some<br />
jobs require that you fill out an application. <br />
Even when you are doing nothing but stopping by to pick up an<br />
application, make sure that you present yourself in a way that is in keeping<br />
with how the business employees are dressed. <br />
First impressions do make an impression. <br />
Make yours count! (For this reason,<br />
when you send in a cover letter and résumé, print them on good quality paper if<br />
at all possible.)</p>
<p>WLC<br />
is happy to provide several sample résumés for your instruction. These are for instructive purposes only. Do not just copy résumés you have found<br />
on-line. Bring some of your own<br />
personality into it. A unique, original<br />
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