Posted on Apr 9, 2014
How do you reframe your military experience for civilian jobs?
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I'd thought that I'd share this article that I'd found on another professional networking site:<br><br>https://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/ [login to see] 0624-52594-from-warrior-to-workplace-reframing-your-military-experience-for-civilian-jobs<br><br>Those of us that have been through ACAP, TAPS, or any other military to civilian transition know (or may not know) that you need to make your military experience translate into civilian terms. <br><div class="pta-link-card"><div class="pta-link-card-picture"><img src="http://m.c.lnkd.licdn.com/mpr/mpr/p/7/005/054/132/1cf67c4.jpg"></div><div class="pta-link-card-content"><div class="pta-link-card-title"><a target="_blank" href="https://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/ [login to see] 0624-52594-from-warrior-to-workplace-reframing-your-military-experience-for-civilian-jobs">From Warrior to Workplace: Reframing Your Military Experience for Civilian Jobs</a></div><div class="pta-link-card-description">If there's anybody who should be able to get a good job in a tough economy, it's a person who has just completed military service. In the U.S., we have a volunteer military. Everyone in military</div></div><div style="clear:both"></div><div class="pta-box-hide"><i class="icon-remove"></i></div></div>
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With the looming cutbacks effecting many service-members who have served our great nation, I am curious how many Rallypoint members have begun to think about their military experience and view it through the lens of a civilian employer. For several of our nations bravest, the biggest challenge they will face won't involve bullets and flak vests, but will include translating the blood, sweat and tears they have shed for their country into a piece of paper aimed at summarizing who they are, what they do, and what they can do for their target company.
My question (and challenge) for the Rallypoint community is this: What is your pitch? Can you answer the questions of Who you are, What you do, and What you can do for your target company in 5 sentences or less while focusing your answer into a specific job or position?
Figuring this out is tough, I know, but this could quite possibly the most important thing you do in your professional (or post-professional) military career. Need some help? Here is a great article written by Forbes Magazine contributor Carmine Gallo that might be able to help: http://onforb.es/1iM5Fow
Would love to hear your pitch, so feel free to share it below.
-GD
Military experience can be difficult to translate in a resume. This article gives veterans and others tips on how to best prepare a resume.
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