Profile

Build a Profile

The first step in obtaining employment is to get organized and record your education, experience and develop a convincing narrative of you as an employee.

The profile is central to ldsjobs; it presents you to potential employers much as a resume does. Additionally, the entries in you profile are reviewable by your employment team, it allows them to get to know you as soon as possible to give assistance, you won’t have to verbally repeat your background over again.

Employers search profiles for keywords related to job openings they are trying to fill. The Profile contains essential information that allows them to find you. Take the time to be detailed in your descriptions and use all of the space provided in each section.

The profile lets you present your skills to employers and lets employers find the skills they require. When the profile is 90% complete you can make it visible to employers. You also have the option to withhold the display of your profile at any point in time.

The thought and reflection needed in completing your profile is a useful first step in organizing your experience for your first draft of a resume. The resume is the single vehicle to present your qualifications to prospective employers.

Components of a Profile

Navigate to your home page

Complete Your Account Information

Access Your Profile Menu

Document Achievements

Power Statement Guidelines

Power Statement Examples

Me in 30 Seconds Guidelines

Me in 30 Seconds Examples

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Components of a Profile

The profile presents you to potential employers; it contains information that is searchable. When you achieve 90% completeness, your profile can be searchable. You also have the option to withhold the display of your information at any point in time.

Much of the information needed is available in your current employment history or from your current resume.

The last two topics will likely require the most effort. You will be entering the following components:

Target Job Titles

Your target job titles in order of preference and compensation desired

Work Experience

Job title, company, date of employment, description of duties, reason for leaving and pay rate.

Your reason for leaving and pay rate will not be visible to employers. This information allows the Employment Team to better assist you with your job search needs.

Education

Institution, field of study and degree or certificate awarded

Skills & Languages

Specific abilities, attributes, qualifications and licenses, the languages you speak

Power Statements – Accomplishments

Power statements highlight your strengths and show how you have achieved results.

Me in 30 Seconds – Your 30 second summary

A brief but compelling answer to the question “Why should I hire you?”

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Navigate to Your Home Page

Sign In

Access the web site at www.ldsjobs.org .Select the Sign In option located at the top right hand corner of the page.

The Sign In page presents two options:

Select the ‘Create an Account’ on your first visit which presents these choices:

Member

I you are a church member you may login with the username and password use to access any of the various church websites. If you have not accessed any church sites, check with your unit clerk for your membership number and birth date.

Not a Member

If not a member, you are a friend of the church, you can Create an Account and obtain a username and password for access to job resources.

To register you will be asked for the information listed at the right:

Successfully completing the Sign In will produce a page with the following:

Register an account

Provide the following information:

· Your First and Last Name

· A Username of your choice

· Your choice of Password and a confirming entry

· Birth Date

· Gender

· Country

· And lastly Recovery & Communications Options
Either your Email address OR your Mobile Phone
to receive a confirmation and respond

Complete Your Account Information

Some of the information used to open your account is retained as part of the database.

Select the menu item My Account at the right.

Review the information displayed for being accurate and make corrections as needed.

Review the Name and Preferred name field and confirm the accuracy.

This constitutes your legal name and preference

Review and confirm the Email, Phone and Fax fields.

Your essential contact information. It is critically important that this information be kept up to date

When presented the option of Save, select it.

Access Your Profile Menu

You now have the opportunity to begin building your personal Profile

Place the cursor over the My Profile option to display a drop down list:

Select Manage Profile at the top of the list

Creating an LDSJobs profile is a great first step in your job search. It contains information typically included in a resume, but also includes sections that will help you engage with employers.

The major sections supporting the database are listed at the right.

Each of these sections are described and tutored individually with their own pages that follow.

You can return to the My Profile and manage your profile with entry, editing and modifying.

Target Job Titles

Work Experience

Education

Skills & Languages

Achievements

Power Statements

Me in 30 Seconds

Target Job Titles

Target job titles are the job titles you're searching for today. Identifying your target job titles will help employment advisers provide you with customized coaching and personalized job leads.

Think about the last job title and responsibility you had. Is the title in line with the actual work you performed? If not what should your title have been? What would be the title of the logical progression given another year?

You will have the opportunity to modify this entry later as your job searching skill s mature.

The information to be provided is listed at the right.

Job Title

Up to 3 titles may be entered

Desired Wage

The amount and the rate of pay may be entered

Work Experience

Enter your work history. You may include any gainful or volunteer assignments you have. Limit the time frame to the last 10 years.

Consider including 5 to 6 entries. If you are limited in the number of companies, consider including the variety of job titles you may have held at the same company and list them separately with the associated dates. If you can show a progression of responsibility at the same company, so much the better.

For each job enter the following information

Job Title

Company with optional division or City

Duration or tenure dates in the form Mon Year

From To

Education

List the education you have received, include any special study included in military service. You will be asked to provide the information listed at the right.

School

Field of Study

Degree designation

Status of studies

Skills & Languages

Skills

Review your past and present job assignments. From those make a list of the skills that you demonstrated or had to develop in fulfilling those duties. Concentrate on finding concrete skills, avoid soft skills, find those that will set you apart and make you a unique resource.

At this point, these skills do not have to be detailed. Their expansion and justification will be developed more completely in one of the following sections.

Your first six skills contribute 2% each to your profile completeness. Adding more than six skills will not increase your profile percentage but will help you make a positive impression on employers.

You may add up to 12 skills.

Below list a dozen skills that come to mind.

Languages

Enter the languages you speak or read’

When you reach the end, rank the skills in which you are strongest and record them in the 6 to 12 entries accepted.

Document Achievements

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How to Write Outstanding Achievement Statements!

An achievement statement tells people what you’ve accomplished. They make you interesting and should have the hiring manager asking himself: “Wow!!! How’d he do that?!? I gotta talk to this guy!”

Achievement statements come in two general types. First are awards and rewards. Salesman of the year, five Employee of the Month awards, bonuses, and so on are reward- and award-type achievements. This kind of achievement is easy to document because you cashed the $5,000 check or put the plaque on the wall.

The second type answers the question: “When everything fell down around our ears, what did I do to fix it?” An alternative question is, “When the unexpected happened, how did I make things work out?”

Answers to either of these questions will also answer one of the following questions:

1. How did I make the boss money?

2. How did I save the boss money?

3. Which of the boss’s problems did I make go away?

This second type is not as easy to quantify, but quantification is important. Dollars made or saved, time saved, process improvements, better systems, good training given, new accounts developed, old accounts rescued, and a myriad of other situations are all the basis of achievement statements.

When writing an achievement statement, it will come from a story. You need to develop the story as well as the statement because one event may include two or five achievements. When you interview, you need to answer questions about the achievements, and the best way to do that is to tell the story that led to the statement.

As you go through your old performance reviews, your boss may already have written some of your achievement statements for you: “Jack completed every project on time and under budget over the year.” These are possibly the best kind of statements because you have documentation of the accomplishment, and it’s a more-or-less disinterested party who wrote it.

Most of the time, though, you’ll write your own. So go back to the question noted above: “When everything fell down around our ears, what did I do to fix it?” Go back to that time. Feel what you felt then. See what you saw and hear what you heard. Then “flesh out” the story from that event. How long did it take? What obstacles did you have to overcome? Whom did you have to persuade, coerce, lead? What was the result? Did this last one answer one of the three earlier questions? It should have.

When you write the statement, use the past participle of a strong verb. “Saved”, “earned”, “built”, “led”, “rescued”, “built” and so. There are many. Your industry has its own jargon and shorthand terms. Use them where possible.

An achievement is usually (but not always) measured in dollars or man hours, percentage improvement or lessened tensions. As often as possible, you want to use a number. Dollars are always a good measure, but percentages are great, especially as they get closer to 100% or 0%, whichever is better in the context. Time frames are good for putting things into perspective (a weekly award is not as impressive as an annual tribute).

For instance, if your new process saved 5¢ per copy, that’s not impressive, but if there were 650,000 copies, that’s $32,500/month or $390,000/year. A 2% reduction in man hours may not seem like much, but 500,000 man hours in a year grabs the reader’s attention.

So, what does an achievement statement look like? Here are a few examples:

· Salvaged $67,000 in quarterly revenue by planning, writing, revising, illustrating, and producing an OSHA-required document in ⅔ the scheduled time.

· Awarded Salesman of the Month six consecutive months.

· Developed a process that saved 25% of the time required to polish a critical element in the aircraft frame.

· Trained twelve co-workers on new software in three weeks; all passed the qualification, and none had a discrepancy in the six week validation test.

Power Statement - Guidelines

A power statement is a concise statement that briefly describes the value you can bring to a company. Power statements help employers to find potential employees and gain a better understanding of the contribution you could make to their company.

Creating good power statements is the most difficult part of creating a good profile. This is because most people have a difficult time quantifying their accomplishments. There are, however, a few questions that you can ask yourself that will help you quantify how you brought value to past employers:

· What did you do for the company?

· Did you do it well?

· How do you know you did it well?

· How would you prove that you did a good job?

· Did anyone ever tell you that you did a good job? Why?

· Was it of any value to the company? Why?

· How was your performance measured by the company?

The key measurements you should use when answering these questions are those things that contribute to the company bottom line or profit, such as:

·	· time, · money, · efficiency, · product improvement, · process improvement · market penetration, · customer retention and other measures of success.

In many cases you will have to estimate how your work affected the bottom line. In all cases, estimates should be reasonable and expressed in terms that have real meaning.

Power Statement - Examples

For example, John works for the collections department. The department consists of 5 people who work full-time contacting customers to collect accounts that are overdue by at least 90 days. John develops a new way of contacting customers that reduces the number of people needed from five to three and at the same time increases the number of customers responding with a payment by approximately 10%.

John‟s power statement would then read:

”Developed collections program that resulted in manpower savings of 40% and increased productivity of 10%. Program is now the company standard.”

Note: A good power statement is short, usually no more than two to three lines in length, and is expressed in quantifiable terms (to catch the eye, express quantities in numerals rather than words, even for numbers less than 10). Also note that lengthy statements, those that exceed 4 lines, are more likely to be skipped over and not read.

Now take a moment to examine the following power statements and note how each has been carefully crafted to show value added to the company.

Managed the redesign of a manufacturing shop floor using CAD, which increased workflow by 25%, and reduced work-related accidents by 47%.

Successfully trained 5 new sales associates over the course of 6 months which resulted in my being offered the Assistant Manager position for exceptional performance

Key player in maintaining contracts for 3 major construction sites, with 100% on-time delivery of materials to all job sites.

Developed from scratch a Standards and Tool Crib (significantly under budget and ahead of schedule), increasing overall parts/tool acquisition efficiency by 300%.

Reduced overdue accounts by 50% on a portfolio of more than 3,500 commercial loans.

Awarded “Top Gun” designation and $25K bonus as the company’s best performer. Only given to one individual per year

Remember that you only have one chance to make a first impression. Therefore, it is imperative that you use a check list to ensure that your power statements are saying the right things. Your check list should include the following:

Are your power statements tailored to the job being applied for?

Do they reflect accomplishments that have relevance to the potential new employer?

Do they express value added to the company, in quantifiable terms?

Have they been placed in the proper context? For example, it is important to note that the “Top Gun” award is given to only one individual per year as opposed to being a monthly award. Placing it in this context only increases its value.

Are your power statements too long? If they are longer than 4 lines, they look like a paragraph, meaning that they will probably not be read. Remember power statements are intended for the reader to feel their impact at a glance.

Word smithing achievement statements are not easy, but the more you do this, the better you will get at it.

Me in 30 Seconds - Guidelines

Your “Me in 30 Seconds” statement will introduce you to employers who visit this site. It is a simple way to present to employers a balanced understanding of who you are.

It is a brief but compelling answer to the question “Why should I hire you?”

Your “Me in 30 Seconds” statement should include:

· A brief personal introduction that includes your career objective or the type of position you want.

· Three or four specific accomplishments that prove you meet or exceed the requirements for that position.

· A few character traits or skills that set you apart from typical applicants.

“Me in 30 Seconds” statements should be short with only pertinent information.

Opportunities arise to use your “Me In 30 Seconds” when you are asked:

· Tell me something about yourself.

· Tell me about your experience at your previous organization.

· Describe how your background prepares you for our organization.

To get your “Me in 30 Seconds” focused, you may need to structure a plan that will best describe your abilities, education and experiences. See the table below and complete it with the idea of best describing your skills and ultimately, who you are as a potential employee fitting your desired job.

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Me in 30 Seconds - Examples

In 30 seconds, you need to be able to introduce yourself effectively. The ’30 Second Summary’ also known as an ‘Elevator Speech’, is used in a number of situations.

The objective is to ‘Prove your Value' and indicate the type of work you are seeking.

Prove your value, express your passions; what you're good at, what you like to do within your profession

· Education/Certifications

· Years of Experience

· Validation and/or quantifiable results to prove your value

Indicate the type of work you are seeking

· Keep it short; one sentence

· Say it at the end of your “Me in 30 Seconds”

· Give the reader/listener a specific job title to remember

Examples:

I have a Bachelor's degree in Industrial Engineering from Purdue University, with fifteen years’ experience in the manufacturing industry. My passion is in solving problems and improving processes to streamline business, eliminate waste, and cut costs. I once saved my company $10 million through a single capacity analysis. I've been an integral part of certifying the Boeing 747, 767 and 777 for safety and FAA compliance. I'm looking for a position in the manufacturing industry as an Industrial Engineer.

I'm an effective leader and mentor with a passion for counseling job seekers to make sure they have the right tools in place for success. I have an MBA with an emphasis in Human Resources Management, and ten years’ experience in the industry. My main expertise lies in resume writing, job interviewing methods, and networking techniques. I have a proven track record of success in placing people in positions to succeed in their job searches and through my counseling, my clients have consistently found desirable positions 53% faster than through other agencies. I'm seeking a position as an Executive Recruiter.

I'm a skilled driver with a Class A CDL with both Hazmat and doubles endorsements. I have over ten years of experience, with a perfect safety record, logging more than 750,000 miles and over 13,000 hours behind the wheel. I love to drive and enjoy being on the road doing long distance hauls. I've hauled many different kinds of loads, including auto parts, perishable foods, cars and furniture. I know all the elements of the transportation industry, having co-owned a successful trucking company for five years; hiring, training and managing the operations. I'm looking for a position within the trucking industry as an operations manager.

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