As part of the SPD Division People Strategy, we are working to improve Talent Attraction within church entities by growing the Adventist Professionals LinkedIn Group. It is a private group (it can have up to 2 million members) and we hope to grow it so that we have as many of our church members on it as possible.
This enables all church entities to headhunt through LinkedIn and find Adventists with specific skills. Our Union and Conference Offices can use the LinkedIn Profiles to assist finding updated and current information about nominees for various roles (sitting alongside PSR-personel service record) particularly where nominees may not be current church employees. Local Churches can also use it to assist them during nomination times to fill roles. Aside from this, the individual can contact others within the group, and it enables people to be connected on a professional level.
Workshops: In order to grow the LinkedIn Group, we need to upskill many people on creating a resume. Many church employees have never had to go through a normal recruitment process, and more broadly than that, many people do not have an updated resume in a format that HR personnel find useful. The workshops we will conduct has two parts:
