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we're here back with tracy mitchell one
of our account managers here at
clearjobs.net and talking about
tips that we would pass on to
transitioning military folks
we're a veteran known firm we have many
veterans who are part of our teams
so we wanted to take a few moments to
sort of share their expertise
and their recommendations to
transitioning military so one question
that comes up a lot for us tracy is
should transitioning military job
seekers remove military
lingo and acronyms from their resume
and how can they translate their
military experience
into civilian experience those are great
questions
i would say yes remove the acronyms
and make sure that you spell them out
you don't
a lot of what we find is that the
acronyms within the mill
the military do not transition well or
do not mean the same thing in corporate
or
the civilian sector completely different
completely different things um so if
you're going to use an acronym make sure
that you spell it out
but you don't want to have that
consistent military language
throughout your resume you do
again want to tailor that resume and
have it match or at least be similar to
what the company's language is
um how do you how do you transition and
how do you make all that work
so one of the things that you can do is
just do some internet search um if
you're not sure what your
what your skill set applies to in the
corporate or civilian sector
plug it in um google will tell ya
so or at least i'll give you some good
ideas um
the other thing that you can do is have
a couple friends read your resume
so if you know how have a military
friend who's been out for
a while take a look at your resume and
see what they think because now that
they've been in that world for a while
they can
help guide you also have somebody who's
in corporate america take a look at your
resume because they will be able to
definitely tell you what whether or not
what you're writing makes sense
so one thing that i've noticed a lot of
times
when i'm looking at resumes that are
military resumes
they seem to sort of gloss over the
business
components that are inherent in many
positions such as
if you're a platoon leader you actually
have a budget to manage you have
workforce
issues you have
people that you are mentoring you have a
lot of things that
we normally think of as
incorporating many different business
sense but i notice in a lot
of military resumes they sort of
sort of skim over that do you understand
what i'm talking about with that
oh absolutely absolutely well the
military mindset
that's part of your job you know i mean
it just is i mean you don't think of it
your
title and your persona is that platoon
leader or that company commander
you don't think in terms of corporate
america where
you know you have a budget and you have
you're involved in training and you're
involved in planning
and you're involved in operations and
the myriad of other things that you do
you just
consider that well i'm a platoon leader
or i'm a company commander but yes
you're right
it is often left out so how should
someone talk about that in their resume
well one of the things that i try to
bring out of transitioners when they
are writing their resumes is think in
terms
of you know the five w's and how
so then that way you're not missing
anything we can always taper
and make it smaller but if you don't
answer the questions who what when why
where
and how then you're probably not putting
everything you need to
in your resume so if you say platoon
leader well
or company commander or staff sergeant
or whatever it is that you
are put think in terms of those five w's
in the h
because you can always you know pare
down your resume but it's
really hard to build it up
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