Posted on March 5th, 2010 by JessicaRichardson
If you have been methodically executing a well-prepared a job search strategy and had your military resume prepared or reviewed by a professional military resume writer, chances are it is time to start thinking about interviewing. If there is one question an interviewee can bank on, it is the dreaded, “Tell me about yourself.” Most [...]
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Filed under: Interviewing, Military Job Seeker Advice, Uncategorized
Posted on February 19th, 2010 by JessicaRichardson
Articles about writing federal military resumes, federal hiring trends, and landing a federal job have proven to be the most popular among MilitarytoCivilian.com readers and military job seekers who read the leading military transition publication, CivilianJobNews. Because the federal government has thousands of openings, grants hiring preference to most veterans (for more on this see ”Federal [...]
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Filed under: Federal Job (Steps to get a), Federal Resumes, Military Career Transition, Military Job Seeker Advice, Uncategorized
Posted on February 8th, 2010 by JessicaRichardson
These were the top 100 terms (aka “keywords”) used by recruiters to find the candidates they were searching for on a leading, management-focused job board during a 6-month period in 2009. Incorporate as many as you can (honestly of course) into your military resume, or contact the military resume writing professionals at Military Resumes, to [...]
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Filed under: Military Job Seeker Advice, Military Resumes, Uncategorized
Posted on January 6th, 2010 by JessicaRichardson
Like it or not, 2010 is here. Whether you’ve been pounding the job search pavement for months or your military retirement looms on the distant horizon, there is no better time to rethink, or start thinking about, your job search strategy and military resume. Make it your New Year’s resolution to establish an up-to-date job [...]
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Filed under: Military Career Transition, Military Job Seeker Advice, Military Resumes, Networking
Posted on December 11th, 2009 by JessicaRichardson
A Military Resumes client (who happens to be a very savvy senior enlisted Intelligence Analyst), recently shared her frustration regarding the arbitrary barriers companies impose in their job openings. Nearly every military job seeker who has been around the block has encountered the “too-perfect-fit” job opening. This opening has so many specific requirements, only the [...]
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Filed under: Federal Resumes, Military Job Seeker Advice, Military Resumes
Posted on December 4th, 2009 by JessicaRichardson
Military resumes and keywords go together like a lock and key – one is pretty worthless without the other. Keywords are industry specific nouns and verbs (with an ever-increasing emphasis on nouns) often searched for by hiring managers and resume scanning software. I’ve addressed the importance of keywords to military resumes in the past, but [...]
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Filed under: Military Job Seeker Advice, Military Resumes
Posted on November 20th, 2009 by admin
CivilianJobs.com is the site where America’s military connects with civilian careers. In addition to providing a job board and a military base newspaper, CivilianJobs.com produces military jobs fairs at bases all over the U.S. that are free for military job seekers to attend.
In the course of these many job fairs, the CivilianJobs.com team has accumulated [...]
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Filed under: Military Job Fairs, Military Job Seeker Advice
Posted on November 5th, 2009 by JessicaRichardson
In this month’s issue of Spotlight, the official newsletter of the Professional Association of Resume Writers & Career Coaches, industry pioneer Jay Block revisits the very definition of a resume. This got me thinking… if a certified professional military resume writer could benefit from a refresher course on the basics, so could a military job [...]
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Filed under: Military Career Transition, Military Job Seeker Advice, Military Resumes
Posted on October 29th, 2009 by JessicaRichardson
Avoid the awkwardness of asking a network contact for a job by asking them for a reference instead. It’s tempting for military job seekers preparing for the military to civilian transition to employ a script similar to the following:
“Hello Joe. I am getting out of the military soon… Are you hiring?”
The only thing more awkward than [...]
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Filed under: Military Career Transition, Military Job Seeker Advice, Networking
Posted on October 1st, 2009 by JessicaRichardson
The nation’s largest employer, the federal government, is expected to hire approximately 273,000 new workers over the course of the next three years to satisfy the new Administration’s initiatives and replace its rapidly retiring baby-boomer workforce. With this in mind, and given the current state of the economy, it’s no wonder that many job [...]
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Filed under: Federal Job (Steps to get a), Federal Resumes, Military Career Transition, Military Job Seeker Advice
