The Application Process
Welcome to the LIFE application process. There are several
steps in this process; we have tried to make them both friendly and
professional. Please contact us at any stage if something is unclear or doesn’t seem to fit your situation.
The steps
to take are:
1.
LIFE Postcard
Fill out and send us what we call a “LIFE postcard”
(available HERE), together with your resume. That gives us an
indication your application maybe on the way and allows us to communicate.
2.
LIFE Application
Please complete and send us all parts of the LIFE
Application Package, including:
1. The LIFE Application
Form (available HERE), comprising the following sections:
- Personal information
- Academic, professional and community involvement experience
- Essay section
2. Copy of Degree(s)
3. Medical Insurance
forms filled out and signed (available HERE).
4. Your Doctor’s Recommendation
(available HERE)
5. Copy of key pages
from your Passport (see details under ‘Visa and Overseas Flights')
6. Good digital photo of
you (scan of Passport photo if possible)
7. Ask two people to
complete and directly send the LIFE Letter of Recommendation (available HERE).
8. Pay the $50 (non-refundable)
processing fee (see payment methods HERE)
NOTE:
- Please send #1 by email AND a signed version by fax. Send
#2, #3, #4 and #5 as scanned files by email, if possible, or by fax. Send #6 by
email.
- Emails should have ‘LIFE application your name’ as
the subject.
- Email: yonatan@btzedek.org.il Fax: +972-1532-6749011.
3.
Interview
We interview you over the phone. There may be the need for
two such interviews.
4.
Decision
We process your application and notify you whether your
candidacy was accepted.
5.
Next Steps
If you are
accepted – Mazal Tov! Then:
- You start to make the scheduled payments (see HERE).
- We:
1. Send you updates as the program start gets nearer
2. Are available for questions
3. Email with you personally about
your travel plans and other details
6.
Some general comments about the
process
This process is designed to let us get to know you and for
you to know the program and its demands. Our goal is to make a good fit between
people who participate in the program and the program itself. We relate in this
process to the needs of the participants, the agencies they will intern with,
the people and communities they will work with and serve, the community of
other participants they will live with and the interests of future participants
(as represented by the reputation of the program as it grows over time).
It may
turn out that some applicants are not suitable. However, our goal is to find
and accept people who are suitable, not to rank or grade you and not to
give you a hard time. So bear with us and don’t be pressured; we will get
through this.
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