Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter speaks to those men and women separating from the military and encourages them to communicate in as way that the civilian workforce understands.
I want to speak with those of you who are separating from the military and have a direct conversation with you about looking for work in the civilian sector.
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Do you think employers are trying to help you?
You already know you can’t trust recruiters—they tell you as much as they think you need to know to take the job they after representing so they collect their payday.
The skills needed to find a job are different yet complement the skills needed to do a job.
Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter has been a career coach and recruiter for what seems like one hundred years.
JobSearchCoachingHQ.com changes that with great advice for job hunters—videos, my books and guides to job hunting, podcasts, articles, PLUS a community for you to ask questions of PLUS the ability to ask me questions where I function as your ally with no conflict of interest answering your questions.
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There is a site called fedshirevets.gov. If you are a veteran looking for work or a family member of the veteran looking for work, this is a site where you can get a lot of great information to help you.
For example, when you follow the tabs . . . There is a calendar of events where government agencies are doing workshops for veterans or their family or hiring veterans. That’s on the homepage of fedshirevets.gov.
You click along and there’s information for job seekers. Whether you are a family member or a veteran yourself. There is information about the veterans preferences that exist because there are veterans preferences that many agencies have issued since Pres. Obama took office.
There is a list of agencies that exist. There are different types of presentations. There are success stories because, probably it’s it’s not going to be a linear path to you being hired. After all, believe it or not, the government doesn’t hire everyone who wants to work for them!
A shock!
However, the actual site for applying is USA jobs.gov; that’s going to have the list of different sites for the different agencies.
At the end of the day, is important for you to take advantage of information that is available to you and not going like a rank amateur. You know, thrashing around, learning as you go along in ways that could cost you opportunities that you could have gotten.
Being a professional doesn’t mean that you don’t make mistakes.. The difference is, you are prepared and you take the time to prepare. You may make mistakes but you are further along the process and had you not taken time to prepare.
Great athletes. Pro teams. They will practice, right? They run plays. They deal with different situations and these folks make millions of dollars. It’s a great lesson. You can take from them in practicing and learning what you need to know in order to get this job.
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Do you think employers are trying to help you?
You already know you can’t trust recruiters—they tell as they think you need to know to take the job they after representing so they collect their payday. The skills needed to find a job are different yet complement the skills needed to do a job.
Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter has been a career coach and recruiter for what seems like one hundred years.
JobSearchCoachingHQ.com is there to change that with great advice for job hunters—videos, my books and guides to job hunting, podcasts, articles, PLUS a community for you to ask questions of PLUS the ability to ask me questions where I function as your ally with no conflict of interest answering your questions.
I want to speak with those of you who are separating from the military and have a direct conversation with you about looking for work in the civilian sector.