Posted on Jan 25, 2016
Your Resume Absolutely Needs This One Thing
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As a military veteran, you have unique skills and experiences. Make sure you showcase them in your resume.
It’s finally done. After several hours of hard work, you look over your perfectly organized, spell-checked, and heavily edited resume, taking pride in your accomplishments laid out in striking black and white.
You’ve just left the military — maybe after one enlistment, or perhaps you’re wrapping up a distinguished career that lasted decades. Now it’s time to start a new one.
You send off your application. Click, there it goes. A few days later, the hiring manager at the company you’re applying to opens the email, prints out your resume, gives it the once over and then casually drops it into the “no-go” pile.
It’s an experience both veterans and civilians know all too well, but it doesn’t have to be.
It’s finally done. After several hours of hard work, you look over your perfectly organized, spell-checked, and heavily edited resume, taking pride in your accomplishments laid out in striking black and white.
You’ve just left the military — maybe after one enlistment, or perhaps you’re wrapping up a distinguished career that lasted decades. Now it’s time to start a new one.
You send off your application. Click, there it goes. A few days later, the hiring manager at the company you’re applying to opens the email, prints out your resume, gives it the once over and then casually drops it into the “no-go” pile.
It’s an experience both veterans and civilians know all too well, but it doesn’t have to be.
Your Resume Absolutely Needs This One Thing
Posted from taskandpurpose.com
Resume
Transition
Employment
Civilian Career
Posted 9 y ago
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It's true, this has happened to me numerous times. I received some great advice from a retired COL. After he asked me a few questions about my resume, He determined that I was not modifying my resume for each job that I was applying for. So from that point after I would re-write my resume using the KSA's in the job announcement. Then I started getting calls. I also found that the more time I spent on the re-write, the greater chance I would get a call from an employer. I have learned a lot about being an applicant. After 32 years of serving, I never had to worry about this process.
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Mine has the results, or accomplishments I have done within each title I was assigned to. Whether the accomplishments are big or small, I put it in there anyway.
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