Military Transition - Job Search

There's one job source that is continually overlooked while seeking employment after the military. Lets face it, our minds are geared toward the traditional ways of going about things. For the next week, we'll be commenting on various places to seek employment. I'm sure this will be seen as valuable for many of you.

Add the Craig's List to your arsenal of web sites to seek employment. The Craig's List can be found at:

http://www.craigslist.org/


The Craig's List has jobs and information for the United States, Europe, Africa, Australia, New Zealand, United Kingdom, Americas, Asia, and Canada. (This will also help our international job seekers who visit our Blog. Once again, thanks international readers for supporting our efforts). Many U.S. military may decide to live in the country where they reside, relocate to another state, or want to see what's available locally. Either way, the Craig's List is a valuable resource.

This is a resourceful place to seek employment and to find out what companies are looking for in an employee. You can actually select the city, state, and the type of employment you seek. Employers normally will request for you to email a resume for review. Make sure you have a current resume on file.

In some cases, you may want to come up with at least three different types of resumes for yourself. This is the one thing that wasn't mentioned to me as I was leaving the military. This is ideal if you've held different types of jobs in the military. Another idea would be to have different versions of a cover letter. It may not be ideal to use the same cover letter for different types of jobs, so be sure to tailor your cover letter to the position.

See that your resume has quantitive values. Example: 'supervised crew members' (How many?) 'saved Army dollars and manhours with tactical combat strategies' (Saved how much money and how many manhours? What were all the benefits to the process?). Take each item on your resume and chunk down to the most detail description that you can possibly find.

Just a Few Chunking Down Tips:

How much?
What was the result?
How many?
What was impacted?
What was the percentage decrease or increase?
How many dollars or man hours saved?
How did the operation benefit?

This information is also good meat and potatoes for your cover letter.

These are a few tips for your job search. These were great tips that were brought up to me by a fellow coach.

Take care and be safe.


Johnetta Matthews
Veterans In Motion

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