For those believing God to get employment, reciting a novena prayer of Saint Joseph and St Anthony is just one way to petition a blessing for a job. These five prayers are good for employment.
1. Prayer to Saint Joseph
O Saint Joseph, whose protection is so great, so strong, so prompt before the throne of God, I place in you all my interests and desires. Please assist me by your powerful intercession and obtain for me from your Divine Son all spiritual blessings through Jesus Christ, Our Lord, so I may find a job soon and be able to support my family. O Saint Joseph, I never tire of praying to you, and thinking about the baby Jesus asleep in your arms. Ask Jesus for His help in my job search. O Saint Joseph, hear my prayers and obtain my petitions. O Saint Joseph, pray for me.
2. Prayer to Saint Anthony
Blessed St. Anthony, who in life was ever mindful of the needs of the afflicted, consuming yourself in the service of God and for the good of souls, who was the enemy of idleness and a tireless worker in the vineyard of the Lord, beseech God to grant me a suitable job, which may procure for me and my loved ones a decent livelihood, and be at the same time a means of personal sanctification and of real service to others. Amen.
3. Prayer for Powerful Intercession from Saint Joseph
Saint Joseph, foster-father and protector of Jesus Christ, spouse of the blessed Virgin Mary the Mother of God, powerful protector of the Holy Church, to you do I raise my heart and hands to implore your powerful intercession to help me find a job. You searched nothing else in this world but the glory of God and the good of others. You gave yourself completely to the Savior, it was cause for joy to pray, to work, to sacrifice yourself, to suffer, to die for him. You were unknown in this world even though Jesus knew you very well, he would look at your simple and hidden life with complacency. Saint Joseph, you have helped so many people so far I come to you with great trust. In the light of God you can see what misses me, you know my worries, my difficulties, my sorrow.
I am placing it in your hands that saved baby Jesus. I ask for the grace to never separate me from Jesus by the mortal sin, to know him and love him even more and his blessed Mother, to always live in the presence of God, to do anything for his glory and the good of other souls, and one day to reach the beatific vision of God to praise him eternally with you. Amen.
4. Prayer for Confidence
Eternal Father, whose infinite love watches in wisdom over each day of my life, grant me the light to see in sorrow as in joy, in trial as in peace, in uncertainty as in confidence, the way Your Divine Providence has marked out for me. Grant me a strong faith and trust that I will find a job that grants me financial security. Calm my heart as I walk in darkness, just as when I walk in the light, holding Your hand. Help me rejoice in Your bounty, that all things work together for good, for those who love You. Amen.
5. Prayer for Getting and Keeping a Job
O good father, Joseph! I beg you, by all your sufferings, sorrows and joys, to obtain for me what I ask. Help me find a job quickly that meets my financial needs and has a long and stable future. By the work of your hands and the sweat of your brow, you supported Jesus and Mary, and had the Son of God as your fellow worker. When I find a job, teach me to work as you did, with patience and perseverance, for God and for those whom God has given me to support. Teach me to see in my fellow workers the Christ who desires to be in them, that I may always be charitable and forbearing towards all. Grant me to look upon work with the eyes of faith, so that I shall recognize in it my share in God’s own creative activity and in Christ’s work of our redemption, and so take pride in it. When it is pleasant and productive, remind me to give thanks to God for it. And when it is burdensome, teach me to offer it to God, in reparation for my sins and the sins of the world. Amen.