CareerPro Global, Inc.This is a great service for Veterans departing from service, they did an outstanding job translating the things we do in our specific jobs to civilian terms. At the time of delivery I was blown away with what they did with my experience! Highly recommended
-SFC T. Buskey U.S. ARMY (RET)
CareerPro Global is pleased to announce a recent wins at the Career Directors International (CDI) annual summit. CDI sponsors the TORI awards, Toast of the Resume Industry. Our own veteran writer Fran Sheridan won second place in the competition for Best Military Transition Resume.
CDI will post a listing of all first, second, and third place winners on their website before year’s end. In the meantime, we send a hearty salute to all the winners! Their work, along with that of the certified writers at CPG, help make this industry strong. Congratulations!
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By Tranette Ledford
Decision Times
If you want to work as a civilian, you have to talk like one — résumé included. You speak a language foreign to most civilian employers.
No matter how many commendations you have or how skilled you are, hiring managers don’t know what OCAR is, they’ve never referred to a job as an MOS, and they won’t have a clue what you’re talking about if you say you got a degree through SOC.
As one of the most important tools you’ll use to land interviews, your résumé needs to be written in words employers easily recognize. If they don’t “get” your background and abilities, you’re not going to get the job.
Helping people get jobs is what Wendy Enelow and Louise Kursmark are all about. Together and separately, they’ve authored dozens of books related to career transitions and job searches. Résumés are their specialty.
In one of their newest books, “Expert Résumés for Military to Career Transition,” they offer recommendations for how to develop the kind of résumés that lead to job interviews.
“Our book explains how to tailor your résumé to transition from military careers to civilian careers by using strategies and vocabulary,” said Enelow, a certified résumé writer and career-transition coach. “One example is the transferability of skills strategy.
“Say you’ve been a commander and now you want to be a human resources manager. You need to talk about organizational development and work force optimization. These are words the human resources industry understands. Likewise, if you’re a mechanic, you don’t want to talk about your work on a Bradley tank. You want to talk about your experience in fleet management and vehicle preparation and maintenance.”
Enelow advises service members to research the industry in which they want to work and learn the vocabulary relevant to that career field.
“Job ads are good places to get the terminology,” she said. “Also subscribing to industry magazines and publications. To learn the lingo you need to immerse yourself in the community in which you want to work.”
She outlines other strategies, such as including a work summary on a résumé.
“Paint the picture of your experience with your summary,” she said. “The value of any summary is that it gets you through that first quick review and tells who you are and how you want to be perceived.”
Dwayne Dupeire has spent 18 years in the Marine Corps. An ordnance officer and chief warrant officer 3 at Camp Geiger, N.C., Dupeire plans to retire when he reaches his 20-year mark. But he’s already prepared for the job search. As soon as he began thinking about his retirement he hired a résumé service to put his military experience into a civilianized marketing package.
“I know my strengths,” Dupeire said, “I have a good background in leadership and dependability. I’m in charge of an armory with more than a billion-dollar account. But I’m not a résumé writer and I knew someone else could do it better than I could.”
Dupeire contacted CareerProPlus and sent the company a data sheet that listed every job he’s held and every place he’s worked.
In return for about $700, he received a résumé that converted 18 years of military service into a document that summarizes his best qualities and highlights his managerial and supervisory abilities “civilian-style.”
“It may sound like a lot of money,” he said. “Paying for a professional résumé ups my chances for the kind of job I want. So it pays for itself.”
CareerProPlus is an extension of CareerPro Global, Inc., headed by Barbara Adams. Her team has been studying hiring trends and the labor market for some 20 years and developing résumés that meet the demands of employers. Adams said that while today’s market is increasingly a good one for military members, transitioners may be overlooked simply because their résumés contain military jargon.
“Some clients have several decades of experience in jobs and in very unique skills that might not be easily understood without some translation,” she said.
“They also may be looking to have two or three different résumés to match different industries. Other clients will need only one résumé and because of their experience, they won’t require as much converting.”
From FederalDaily.com, 08/10/12:
One of the highlights of the newly negotiated collective bargaining agreement announced this month between the Transportation Security Administration and its airport screeners is the scrapping of the agency’s much-criticized pay-for-performance system.
Under the new agreement negotiated by the transportation security officers’ new sole representative, the American Federation of Government Employees, TSA will introduce a new system that assesses employees’ performance based more heavily on how well they perform on the job than on how well they score on certification tests.
The current Performance Accountability and Standards System (PASS), which opponents have criticized as subjective and unfair, relies heavily on certification test scores to assess employee competency. Those certification test scores will no longer count on performance scores and pay increases, AFGE said.
The PASS system will be replaced by a new Transportation Officers Performance System, which will assess a screener’s competency in large measure by evaluating actual on-the-job performance of duties.
Other contract highlights are available here on the AFGE website: http://bit.ly/NW7BMy
by Barbara Adams, President and CEO of CareerPro Global, Inc.
Military personnel can offer a great deal of experience and dedication to the private sector employers. You undoubtedly realize as a highly-respected person serving in the military, “you have worn many hats,” and yet the summation of your capabilities and talents is often inadequately regarded if it is described using military jargon. Most civilian employers do not understand military protocol, and quite frankly, they are not required to because they are not interviewing you for a position in the ranks of uniformed service. Professional resume writers are experienced in organizing, assimilating and interpreting your military career and marketing you effectively. Accomplished and experienced military to civilian resume writers can strategize your qualifications and experience and demilitarize your career, projecting your experiences into a highly effective resume presentation.
Even well-qualified, dedicated, and capable candidates such as yourself has to plan strategies and care enough about the first impression you make with a potential civilian employer to show the hiring authorities your “best side.” It’s a known fact if your resume is going to get the attention it deserves, “make your first impression your best impression.”
Sometimes hiring professionals may not completely understand military acronyms or even the basic hierarchy of the military. Recognized as “Home of the Military Transition Writing Experts,” our highly trained and skilled team has been writing military to civilian transition resumes since 1986, from Desert Shield/Storm to Operation Iraqi Freedom, and all the brave missions in between. We have a deep sense of pride and honor to be able to offer you, who have served our country so selflessly, the very best in writing talent, available to encapsulate your military years for civilian review.
In today’s military, you have traveled across many miles and continents, handled personnel issues, logistics, training; managed materiel, equipment and inventory just to name a few, and many have fought bravely in life-threatening war. How do you explain this to a civilian? How could they ever imagine some of the assignments you have participated in and successfully accomplished? They cannot. But experienced and trustworthy professional resume writers have the ability to interpret and integrate your military background into a comprehensive, easily understood resume. We can transcribe your experiences, accomplishments, challenges, actions and results into the smoothly-reading qualifications and skills employers can relate to – and are looking for.
The first step for the transitioning applicant is to understand his or her talents, skills, and abilities and how those attributes relate to business and industry. Military personnel develop traits beneficial to private enterprises because they are held to the highest standards of performance and operations. Recruiting professionals statistically have agreed military personnel make excellent leaders, once given a specific task: they are decisive, resourceful, disciplined and devoted team players; performing exceptionally well under pressure.
Why do recruiters or hiring managers ever overlook well-qualified military applicants? First, they may not be able to establish (or understand) matched skills from the military resume, perhaps because the language and “buzz words” do not equate to their customary civilian terminology. If the recruiter is forced to decipher too much technical information or military jargon, he or she may be unable to see the value of the candidate.
As a former member of the military, no matter the length of time served, you have much to offer and are the most loyal, well-trained, disciplined, and goal-oriented individuals any employer could hope to recruit. One of the most important decisions you can make to aid in your transition from the military is to hire an expert who can market and emphasize your value expertly in this competitive employment economy we face today.
Our team of Certified Professional and Federal Resume Writers and Career Coaches is here to help launch your civilian career in the most professional manner possible.
Barbara Adams is the President and CEO of CareerPro Global, Inc. (CPG). She has been on the leading edge of SES application development for decades. Committed to providing world-class service, she has also built an SES writing team that has assisted more than 2,500 clients develop their application materials. Ms. Adams has been featured on TV and radio and as a presenter at numerous career conferences. CPG recently sent a team to instruct senior officials at Warner Robins Air Force Base, Georgia, in best practices for developing their SES application materials. She is the co-author of the new book, Roadmap to the Senior Executive Service: How to Find SES Jobs, Determine Your Qualifications, and Develop Your SES Application.
From the Army Civilian Resume Builder and ANSWER Website:
ATTENTION APPLICANTS:
The Army will complete its transition to the DoD Enterprise Recruitment Tool (USA Staffing) effective, 1 May 2012. USA Staffing will be the single hiring process and tool used by all DoD components. Effective, 31 May 2012, the Army Resume Builder will no longer be available.
Resumes cannot be electronically transferred to USAJOBS/Application Manager. Applicants must manually extract their resume data prior to the system going off-line. Applicants are encouraged to pre-position their resume into USAJOBS to apply for Army positions. Applicants will be able to view the status of self-nominations from the old system via USAJOBS – My Account – Application Status.
Tips on application procedures can be found at: Tips on Application Procedure
