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Need Job? Try Church.

by Tom Gallagher

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May 16, 2011

In these extraordinarily difficult economic times, job-seekers (including the newly-minted graduates) should check to see if their local Catholic parish has an outreach program:

According to the Wall Street Journal:

"Across the nation, local churches and other religious organizations have stepped up their recession-busting efforts with free career workshops, résumé clinics and networking functions. The latter can generate quick leads if leveraged properly since religious-centered networks tend to have very invested members, says Elliot Lasson, executive director of Joblink of Maryland, a job matching service that works with the Jewish community in Baltimore. "It's a community that wants to help each other," he says. But netting results requires effort."