Posted on July 14th, 2009 by admin
As a Certified Professional Resume Writer, I receive Spotlight, the Professional Association of Resume Writers and Career Coaches newsletter. In July’s issue, I came across a timely article by Jay Block entitled, “Provide your Clients with an Employment GPS”. In it, Block emphasizes the necessity of a “strategic written employment plan” complete with a highly-structured [...]
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Filed under: Federal Resumes, In the News, Military Career Transition, Military Job Fairs, Military Job Seeker Advice, Military Resumes, Military to Civilian Career Coaching, Networking
Posted on January 8th, 2009 by admin
The letter of offer is the final step in the interview process. It follows compensation negotiations and signals to both the company and the new employee to cease searching. You can also think of the letter as a tangible form of trust designed to lay out the ground rules and prevent distractions during the pivotal [...]
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Filed under: Interviewing, Military Job Seeker Advice, Military to Civilian Career Coaching, Networking
Posted on December 22nd, 2008 by TomWolfe
Are we in a recession? Are we headed for one? Ask enough “experts” and you can get whatever answer you like. Regardless of the answer, military personnel who are in the separation pipeline or thinking about entering it need to consider the impact of the R word on their job search. I have been through [...]
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Posted on December 18th, 2008 by admin
If you are interviewing for a job, chances are your references will be called upon to testify to your work performance before an offer is made. On average, employers check three references per candidate, so have at least that many ready and willing to vouch for you. But who should you ask? Generally speaking, the [...]
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Filed under: Military Career Transition, Military Job Seeker Advice, Military to Civilian Career Coaching, Networking
Posted on November 12th, 2008 by admin
The Professional Association of Resume Writers brought a potential military job search strategy development resource to my attention in their November 2008 newsletter that I would like to share with you. In an article entitled Resources, Diane Burns of Career Marketing Techniques outlines an assessment tool available to career seekers which may be especially helpful [...]
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Filed under: Military Career Transition, Military Job Seeker Advice, Military to Civilian Career Coaching
Posted on September 26th, 2008 by TJMorelli
Here are two articles that were recently posted on military.com regarding using military recruiters / headhunters. While there is some definite positive advice in there, I have a minor critique regarding the articles. In the first article it recommends only spending 25% of your search time with military recruiters / headhunters. I can tell you [...]
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Filed under: In the News, Military Job Seeker Advice, Military to Civilian Career Coaching
Posted on September 10th, 2008 by admin
Here is a good article from contributing editor Janet Farley regarding why to deal with the Cyberskeletons that might be lurking in a military job seeker’s closet. Employers are getting much more savvy about how to search social networking sites and you would hate for a less-than-flattering picture on your myspace page to be the [...]
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Filed under: Military Job Seeker Advice, Military to Civilian Career Coaching
