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Get Ready for your Next Veterans Hiring Event
Career fairs are a great way to jump the line! Are you ready for them? Check here before you go!
Recommitting to the Job Search: Tips for Veterans
Are you unemployed, underemployed, miserably employed, or transitioning military and feel that you have lost your way in the job search? Here are seven concrete actions you can take to re-energize your job search!
The Quiet Job Search: How to Search for a New Job While Employed
You have made the decision to find a new job. However, you want the timing to be yours. Here are five steps to take to make this a reality - thoughtfully and professionally.
Temporary Staffing Placements Opens Doors
Current job seekers cannot let their bias about a “temp job” limit their opportunities. In fact, a temporary position has its advantages. Learn more here…
Making the Most of a Veteran Job Fair: Get In. Get out. Get Hired.
It seems like every week there is a job fair you could be attending. That’s great for you if you’re actively searching for a job, right? But are they the best investment of your time? Here’s our advice to get the best results in the least amount of time.
Top Ten Tips (plus one bonus!) on Applying through USA Jobs for Veterans
The government job search can be confusing and frustrating even if you do everything right. But the benefits of working in a government organization can be life-changing. Here is practical advice for navigating the USA Jobs process…
Prepare to Own the Interview - Part Two
It is human to be nervous about an interview. Here is some final advice to help smooth the path from candidate to new hire…
Prepare to Own the Interview - Part One
You receive a call from a recruiter and after a few basic questions and a conversation about the position you have applied for the recruiter tells you, “we would like to schedule an interview for you”. There is an equal level of excitement and nervousness, so now what? Here are the first steps…
Recommitting to the Job Search
If you are unemployed, underemployed, or miserably-employed and have lost your way in terms of finding a new position, here are seven concrete actions you can take to refresh and re-energize your job search.
Crafting Your Veteran Resume: Telling Your Professional Story
Your resume is your professional story, or your written “Elevator speech” with one main purpose - to get someone to talk to you! Read more to learn how.
8 Phone Etiquette Tips for Job Seekers
You have spent weeks perfecting your resume, searched daily for jobs, submitted countless applications, built your LinkedIn profile and network and now you are waiting for “the call.” Are you really ready? Here are 8 practical tips for engaging an employer - professionally.
A Veteran's Guide to Making Critical Life & Career Choices
Struggling with some big life decisions? These tips will help you set yourself up to make the right choice.
Job Fair Tips - Six Keys to Success
Learn six concrete ways to make job fairs a part of your job search strategy.
What do you do? Ugh!!!
Here is how to respond if you are unemployed, underemployed, or miserably employed.
Navigating Military Transition: A Veteran’s Journey
Transitions can be stressful - emotionally, intellectually, physically, and perhaps spiritually. It is a normal path which we all must travel.
Why Must I Tailor My Resume - Again!?!
Resumes tailored for specific employers and positions rise to the top of the stack of the hundreds of resumes submitted for the typical job. Here is advice on how to efficiently do this tailoring.
How to Fill Out Online Job Applications: Tips to Ease the Pain
Online job applications are a necessary but often frustrating part of today's job search. Here is practical advice for higher quality and less painful online job applications.
A Veterans' Guide for a Great Job Interview
Got an interview? Congratulations! You are a survivor of the first ruthless cut from perhaps hundreds of applicants to the "best qualified." Now the "real fun" begins i.e., preparing for and successfully negotiating the interview process. Here is some down-to-earth, practical advice.
Is Your e-Mail Address Hurting Your Job Search?
Employers look for experience, skills, and education, but as importantly, they look for maturity, professionalism, social awareness, and a good cultural fit. Even an email address is a discriminator. Is yours helping or hurting your job search?
What Should be my Next Career Move? Six Things to Consider
All of us find ourselves considering from time to time our next career move. Give yourself the gift of time, space, quiet, and privacy to seriously consider what you really want to do. Here is how…