Posted on August 31st, 2011 by admin
Who better to pick the brain of than Pete Johnson of Northeast Florida’s “WorkSource” for advice on veterans’ employment matters and insight into the Navy’s Transition Assistance Program (aka “TAP”). Regarding military transitions, Johnson says, “I’m living them daily!” His average day consists of a barrage of calls and emails from transitioning service members and [...]
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Filed under: Military Career Transition, Military Job Seeker Advice, Uncategorized
Posted on June 17th, 2011 by admin
by Carolyn Heinze As silly as it sounds, resumes are a bit like fashion: there are many different styles, many different designers, and even more opinions on what’s in and what’s out. While there is no secret format that guarantees landing a position (or even just an interview), there are a number of elements that [...]
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Filed under: Military Career Transition, Military Job Seeker Advice, Military Resumes
Posted on March 21st, 2011 by admin
Studies have shown veterans to be overrepresented not only among the ranks of leading CEOs, but also able to survive almost twice as long on the job and outperform the stock market’s main benchmark index. It’s no wonder companies with a military hiring program have a significant competitive advantage. Despite the nation’s economic outlook (which [...]
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Posted on December 27th, 2010 by admin
If anyone is qualified to give military-experienced job seekers insight into the post-military job market and Corporate America’s opinion of them, it’s Eric Salzman, one of Bradley-Morris’ most experienced Executive Consultants. Salzman has worked for Bradley-Morris, the nation’s largest placement firm focused solely on military-experienced talent, for the past eight years. He has worked with over 120 companies to establish or compliment [...]
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Posted on November 9th, 2010 by admin
Presenting another article from famed guest blogger, Judy Navarette, SPHR. Judy is passionate about sharing her insight into corporate America to arm veterans with the knowledge necessary to make sound decisions regarding their military-to-civilian transition. Heeding the following advice is especially critical to a successful job search considering the saturation level of today’s job market. [...]
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Posted on September 28th, 2010 by admin
If you have been at the job search game for a while, there is a good chance that the résumé you submitted for at least one online job opportunity is still floating around in space. Military job seekers are frequently thwarted by furtive Applicant Tracing Systems. So what are they? The official definition of an [...]
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Filed under: Military Career Transition, Military Job Seeker Advice, Military Resumes
Posted on September 9th, 2010 by admin
I proudly present another article from MilitarytoCivilian.com’s wildly popular guest writer, Judy Navarrete, SPHR. Judy is an accomplished HR professional who first contacted me at Military Resumes to express her interest in sharing her vast human resources and operations management experience and insight into the business world with military job seekers. Her observations are food for [...]
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Filed under: Interviewing, Military Career Transition, Military Job Seeker Advice, Military Resumes, Military to Civilian Career Coaching
Posted on August 13th, 2010 by admin
I recently posted an article on the launch of a new weapon is the transitioning military job seekers’ arsenal – www.militarytobusinessmentor.com. Earlier this month, M2B founder Tom Pappas, former Army officer and current business leader, blogged about the fundamentals of the civilian hiring process. His article, Understand the New Hire Process: the Business Recruitment Process [...]
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Posted on August 3rd, 2010 by admin
There exists a good recruiter who loves a bad résumé… who gets up every morning to feed his unicorn… Doesn’t sound plausible does it? At least, that’s what I thought before reading recruiter Scott McKearney’s rant about the ever-growing emphasis corporate recruiters place on finding the “perfect” resume. Here is an exceprt from his article, [...]
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Filed under: Military Career Transition, Military Job Seeker Advice, Military Resumes
Posted on July 22nd, 2010 by admin
Judy, MilitarytoCivilian.com’s popular guest writer and resident expert on the talents of veterans and corporate America, offers military job seekers insight on today’s job market and outlines the first step to a successful job search. In the following article, she tells transitioning veterans not to put the cart before the horse so to speak. To conduct the most efficient job [...]
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Filed under: Military Career Transition, Military Job Seeker Advice, Military to Civilian Career Coaching