Apply for a senior service missionary recommendation: transcript
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00:00:00 Hi. I understand you want to be a senior service missionary. We're going to try to step you through that process so that you can start your application for a recommendation to serve as a senior service missionary. First, let's explain the process that's involved. There are three stages. Stage one is finding and applying for an opportunity or position with a church organization that uses senior service.
00:00:30 your service missionaries. You can search for positions online yourself, but it's
00:00:36 more efficient if you involve a senior missionary specialist from your stake
00:00:41 or a senior missionary coordinator or someone else who can help you find a
00:00:48 position that fits your qualifications and your schedule. Once you've found that
00:00:57 position and you apply for it online then we go into stage 2 which begins with an interview
00:01:04 with your bishop and then he approves your application and it moves to the state present for his
00:01:11 worthiness interview and approval. Then we go into stage 3 where you go into the service
00:01:18 missionary management system and the manager of the church organization or operation under whom
00:01:26 you will be working, touch his base and make sure that it's a good fit, that you
00:01:32 have the skill set and the time to be able to perform well. Once the operation
00:01:39 manager has approved your assignment, your position, then the state president
00:01:44 gives his final approval and the assignment and then he sees that you are
00:01:49 set apart, give it a call letter, and then you are now going to be a Senior
00:01:57 Service Missionary working under the operation manager. Now we're going to
00:02:04 demonstrate what you need to do. First we're going to go to the Senior
00:02:08 Missionary website, and then you're going to click on search opportunities and
00:02:14 click on service missionary. Now at that point you're taking to take into a
00:02:21 search page, but for purposes of this demonstration we're going to assume that
00:02:28 you have found an opportunity to work as a virtual missionary for the Virtual
00:02:33 Records Operations Center for Family Search. The process of searching for an
00:02:43 opportunity or a position is the subject of a separate video. So for the purpose
00:02:48 of this video we're going to have you click on the submit button once you've
00:02:53 found the opportunity you want to apply for. Eventually, it will come to a page that looks
00:03:01 like this, but it can take more than a minute for this page to come up. Once this page comes
00:03:08 up, you're going to see the link that says that to complete your recommendation, you need
00:03:14 to click on that Missionary Recommendation System link. So go ahead and click that. Always
00:03:20 always be patient with the church systems because it takes a while to switch from one system
00:03:26 to another.
00:03:28 This next page does not always show up, but if it does, just click on the click here link
00:03:34 to move to the next portion of the recommendation.
00:03:40 After waiting for a while, you will eventually come to the actual application process.
00:03:45 this. On the first page, which is the welcome and introduction page, you just need to read
00:03:51 this statement there and select, click the drop down arrow to the right of select and
00:03:59 click on I understand and then click on let's go. You'll notice that the top left, you've
00:04:08 got a green check mark next to welcome and introduction and your goal is to get a green
00:04:12 check mark in each of those sections of the application for a recommendation.
00:04:19 The next section is the personal information and you can just go through that and input
00:04:25 the personal information that is requested there.
00:04:30 Filling out the questionnaire can be a little bit time-consuming and tedious.
00:04:36 You will get to a place as you scroll down where to ask you to upload a photo.
00:04:41 That's optional for senior service missionaries, but if you want to have a
00:04:45 photo attached to your record, this is the time to do it. There won't be a time to
00:04:50 add one later. After you finish this section, there will be a save or a save
00:04:55 next button. Anytime you have an opportunity to save the recommendation do
00:05:00 so. If you get interrupted, you can come back to it. You can edit any section and
00:05:06 and go back to any section that you want to
00:05:09 until you submit your recommendation.
00:05:12 If you decide that you want to
00:05:15 leave the recommendation, you can.
00:05:19 And then you navigate back to
00:05:21 seniormissionery.churchofJesusChrist.org.
00:05:25 You'll see that there's a little blue one
00:05:27 next to my opportunities.
00:05:28 Click on that.
00:05:30 Click on the service missionary opportunities,
00:05:34 and there you go.
00:05:35 Now you can have a link that says go to your recommend. At this point you click
00:05:40 on that and it will take you back to the recommendation application and you can
00:05:47 start over where you left off. I'm not going to go through each section but you
00:05:52 complete each section one at a time. Click Save at the end of each section and
00:05:57 then when you're done you'll get to the last section which is the general
00:06:02 disclosure agreement. As you scroll through the disclosure agreement and read
00:06:08 it you're going to come down to where you click on select and then click on I
00:06:14 accept and then click save and next. Now you've got all the check marks are green
00:06:22 and as long as you don't need to go back and edit anything you can click the
00:06:28 submit button. This will take you to the congratulations page which you should
00:06:33 read carefully. Your recommendation is not yet submitted. You must click on the
00:06:39 sign-out button in order to complete the submission of your application for a
00:06:44 recommendation to serve as a missionary. Once you click on that your bishop will
00:06:49 be notified that he needs to interview you to be a missionary and you might want
00:06:55 call your award executive secretary to set up an appointment for that. And that is the end of this video.