Veterans: How to Increase Your Chances of Landing a Civilian Job

The following post has tips for transitioning veterans in their searches for civilian jobs.

Recently discharged veterans often experience confusion and worry stemming from adjusting to family life and finding a job. Transitioning isn’t easy, and landing a career in the process can add to the stress. In the military, you can kick ass and take names, but putting that and your MOS on an application is not

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Critical Thinking and Innovation – The New High Ranking Skills at the Workplace

When searching for your next job, consider that a potential employer may be looking for a candidate skilled in critical thinking and innovation.  Learn more in the following post.

“For CEOs today, it’s all about achieving growth and efficiency through innovation.  It’s not about product innovation so much anymore as about innovating business models. process, culture and management.”  ~ Ginni Rometty, IBM CEO You might attribute critical thinking and innovation as a strong skill set for leaders

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Q&A Interview Question

• Question:

I read your article, Five rules to encourage Optimism and to discourage Negativity Don’t Bring Your Baggage Into The Job Interview. (you can find this article at: http://jobsforveterans.military.com/1207/rules-encourage-optimism-discourage/)

Your note about reading between the lines on a job announcement may be a bit misleading. When you go into a job interview and presume to know what the company really wants vs. what they put in print would seem to me to be pretty arrogant. I’ve tried that and have been cut short in the interview. Nobody likes someone to come into their house and tell them how you’re going to fix things for them when they didn’t ask you to. Continue Reading

Do You Want “Mathemagical Superpowers?” Prepare for an Emerging Career in Data Analytics

Sharon Jones of Career Thought Leaders

The movie Moneyball showed Oakland Athletics’ use of performance data to recruit talented baseball players with good ROI. The new big thing is fanalytics, applied to a wide range of sports: basketball, hockey, motorsport, tennis, and more.

Bill Wilson (sports fan and recovering lawyer) wrote a blog about the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference:

Geeks Seek Reap From Tweeps in Seats (brewonsouthu@yahoo.com)

Doug Henschen, executive editor of InformationWeek, wrote that analytics are used in decision-making from “ticket and merchandise sales to labor agreements to player contracts, to TV and digital media deals.”

Computer modeling enabled meteorologists to give a heads-up warning to government agencies about Hurricane Sandy. The presidential and Senate race outcomes were accurately predicted by statistician Nate Silver and neuroscientist Sam Wang, respectively.

Healthcare providers seek data scientists at all levels to lower costs, improve patient care, provide pricing transparency, and enhance treatment decisions consistent with best practices.

“Data is the new oil.” Continue Reading

4 Ways to Customize Your Resume Based on the Job Posting

Jessica Holbrook Hernandez of Great Resumes Fast

I’m sure you’ve heard me say before that it’s critically important to customize your resume when applying for positions—especially to online job postings. Hundreds of candidates apply to positions posted on job boards, and employers have become very savvy at weeding out those candidates who are not qualified. Or who at least do not appear to be qualified because of what is or is not (in most cases) on their resume. So I’m going to share some tips for making key adjustments to your resume to target it exactly for the position based on the job advertisement. Continue Reading

Corporate Culture 101: Applying Personal Brand with Social Skills

Sign saying People Skills. Photo courtesy of Shutterstock.

The series started with a look at the importance of creating a strong professional image online and developing self-management skills. However, adapting to corporate culture involves another important element related to self-management and social media: people skills. Social skills might seem irrelevant to a position that doesn’t explicitly require a lot of interaction with others; however, studies have shown that hiring managers are more inclined to weigh social skills and likability with other factors like education and professional accomplishments. Continue Reading

Tips for Entry-Level IT Job Hunters on Developing a Well-Rounded Resume

Woman’s hand checking professional resume. Photo courtesy of Shutterstock.

In rough economic times, it’s not enough to just have great technical skills. To make sure your resume will rise above the competition even for entry level roles, you need to make sure you offer a well-rounded skillset.

That means ensuring you have the “soft” skills, like communication, project management and time management, which will make you a member of the team – and more than just a technical resource. These are not just skills you’re born with, either. With practice and study you can develop your leadership management and other soft skills in order to make yourself competitive for the technical jobs you’re looking for. Here are the top skills you should exhibit in addition to your technical chops: Continue Reading

Veteran Skills to Job Act Sails through Congress

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Veteran Skills to Job Act Sails through Congress

Number of Unemployed Young People Since 2002 Increases by 64%

According to one source, there has been an increase of young people not working since 2002, in 2012.

Nick Gidwani, founder and entrepreneur of SkilledUp.com (a search engine that provides easy access and discovery of more than 40,000 online, career-advancement and skill development courses), says there are a growing number of young people who have been priced out of higher education and are looking for alternative ways to increase their marketability. Many of those who have acquired a degree have found that its value no longer guarantees a well-paying career in their field of study. Millennials typically have excellent basic computer proficiency, but they lack specific and marketable skills that businesses can use, such as using graphic design or data analysis software. With thousands of low-cost or free courses, these young people can get “skilled up” so that they can take control of their career paths and compete in the marketplace – both with their peers, and with an increasingly global digital workforce in India, South America and Eastern Europe. Continue Reading

Is Education Too Theoretical?

The purpose of everything is to accomplish something. Why do you brush your teeth? To get them clean, obviously. Why do you eat? Why do you work? Why do you exercise?

Everything we do has a purpose, a point. We do things to achieve and reach goals. So, why do we go to school? The clear answer is to learn. But, learn what? Learn skills so we can accomplish what? Continue Reading