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Attention All Officers and Enlisted Personnel

Preparing for your next op in life is an urgent matter. You need it to be a successful mission. Failure.. is NOT an option. Are you ready?Enlist in CareerProPlus’ Military Division. We have all the “intelligence” you need. In business since 1986, CareerProPlus offers you our expertise in translating your Military experience to relevant opportunities in the civilian marketplace and Federal Government.

Your Military experience is a valuable asset! As a member of the Military, you gained a wealth of experience, training, and education. You are qualified to work in a variety of positions, both as a team member and a leader. Between the 2nd and 3rd paragraph – can you add:

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1. Retiring or exiting the Military! Bewildered? Let us expedite your process.
2. Not sure how to translate your military experience into civilian terminology? Our Military Transition Writing Experts will eliminate the guesswork.
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Company Background

CareerProPlus has been developing professional resumes since 1986. We create strategic and custom resume packages for individuals to enhance their career opportunities.

We remain on the cutting edge of all aspects of hiring in all career fields – Military, Federal Government and Private Sectors.

CareerProPlus combines several decades of industry writing experience with the most advanced technology in the industry to empower us to produce job-winning resume presentations for our clients.

We also pride ourselves in producing results and outstanding customer service. And it shows… 68% of new clients were referred by satisfied customers, with a 99.6% customer satisfaction ratio.

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Do You Have The Same MOS as Thousands of Other Military Members

What will set you apart from everyone else in the military with the same Military Occupational Specialty (MOS)? For starters, your accomplishments. Your military to federal resume should comply with federal application requirements and should be full of qualitative and quantitative results. Think about it; have you ever saved money on equipment, supplies, man-hours, etc.? You likely have, “gold nuggets” of information specific to your success in the military and what will set you apart from your competition, helping you earn a Best Qualified rating.

“…the resume was so good that the folks who interviewed me commented on how well it was written.”

Why those of us at CareerPro Global love our jobs:

“Dear Peggi,

“Thanks goes out in a very large part to the wonderful resume that you prepared for me, I got a new job!!!!!!  I got a job as an Assistant Management Analyst with promotion potential to a Management Analyst.  The job is a big promotion for me and actually goes two grades higher than the job that I have now.

“The resume that you did for me was geared towards a Management Analyst position.  I got the job within my agency and it was the very first job I applied for since you did the resume for me.  In fact the resume was so good that the folks that interviewed me commented on how well it was written and one of them even said they were going to use some ideas for their resume as well.

“Thanks again,

“ E. R., Federal Reserve Board of Governors”

Reverse Boot Camp

The following link to the White House Blog gives more information on Reverse Boot Camp for our Armed Forces members leaving the service.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2012/07/25/transitioning-our-service-members

Vets Jobs Bill Passes House; Obama to Sign

From Military.Com:

In a rare show of bipartisanship for today’s Washington, the House voted unanimously on Wednesday to grant tax credits to businesses that agree to hire veterans.

The measure already has passed the Senate 94-1, and will go next to the White House for President Barack Obama’s signature. Obama congratulated Democrats and Republicans for supporting the tax credits, which advocates say are necessary to help reduce veterans’ unemployment.

“No veteran who fought for our country should have to fight for a job when they come home,” Obama said in a statement. “That’s why I proposed these tax credits back in August, and I look forward to signing them into law.”

Obama was Australia en route to Bali for an East Asia Summit.

The tax credits are part of the “American Jobs Act” legislation that Obama sent to Congress in September. With support from both parties, the tax measure and some other veteran-oriented provisions were pulled from the larger jobs act and incorporated into a bill to eliminate a 3 percent withholding tax on government contractors.

Florida Republican Rep. Jeff Miller, chairman of the House Veterans Affairs Committee, called the bill “landmark legislation” that will “help hundreds of thousands of veterans who are currently unemployed.”

The bill includes two tax credits. Under the “Returning Heroes” tax credit, employers would get a maximum tax break of $5,600 per veteran, while the maximum under the “Wounded Warrior” credit is $9,600 per veteran. The exact amount is linked to how long the veteran has been unemployed and whether he or she has a service connected disability.

Eric Shinseki, Secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs, said the bill’s passage “will put more veterans back to work by encouraging businesses to hire them, and send a message that a grateful nation honors their service and sacrifice and wants to welcome them all the way home.”

Other provisions of the bill will extend up to a year of education and training to veterans of earlier eras; improve transition assistance planning to separating troops; enable troops nearing the end of their active duty time to begin applying for federal jobs; and require the Labor Department to find ways to better translate military skills and jobs into civilian employment; and make it easier for veterans to acquire certificates or licenses needed in the civilian world.

Paul Rieckhoff, founder and executive director of the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America, said the legislation includes provisions that IAVA has been pushing for since the beginning of the year.

“And with veteran unemployment rising, the timing [of passage] couldn’t be more critical,” he said in a statement.

Bureau of Labor Statistics figures put veteran unemployment last month at more than 12 percent. That’s more than three percentage points higher than the civilian employment rate.

Original article at http://www.military.com/news/article/vets-jobs-bill-passes-house-obama-to-sign.html

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Top News from the Past Week and a Special Thank You to Vets

This past week has been jam-packed with federal and military news–so much, in fact, that if I gave each a separate post you’d be here reading until Thanksgiving.  Below are links to some of the best and brightest web articles of the past week.

The top news, of course, is Veteran’s Day.   The staff of CareerPro Global work with the exceptional men and women of the military every day–we are, in fact, dedicated to assisting them with their transitions into civilian life and have been since 1986. We are in awe of the exceptional work and sacrifice given by these spectacular folks. Any many of our own are veterans themselves.

We salute our veterans–as well as those who are still in active duty and those who have given their lives for their country. You have our appreciation and love.

Do you know how Veteran’s Day came to be?  Here is the history of the Day: http://www.va.gov/opa/vetsday/vetdayhistory.asp

CareerPro Global is working on an exceptionally exciting  high-visibility initiative for veterans that is coming soon from the White House, Joining Forces, and we are giving vets a sneak peek of our material here: http://veteranstransitionhq.wordpress.com/2011/11/11/joining-forces-for-veterans-day/

Learn more about the Joining Forces intiative: http://www.whitehouse.gov/joiningforces/resources

More big news of the day for veterans–assitance from the top: http://www.marketwatch.com/story/senate-passes-legion-backed-jobs-bill-for-veterans-2011-11-10

The Veteran’s Administration opened a new site today to assist veteran’s looking for federal work: http://vaforvets.va.gov/

Has anyone else seen the clever television ads from the Post Office, reminding viewers than many of their workers are veterans? Here’s the story behind the ad: http://federaldaily.com/articles/2011/11/08/bill-would-affect-many-vets-in-postal-workforce-unions-say.aspx

And my favorite topic, UAJobs.gov–it looks like they’ve got yet another change up their sleeves: http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/1111/110811al1.htm

Joining Forces for Veterans Day

With Veteran’s Day fast approaching, we wanted to give veterans out there some valuable and FREE training!

Here at CareerPro Global, we have partnered with a great company called Mindflash that offers a powerful e-learning software platform. The reason for the partnership is that we are both offering our services for free as part of a much larger, high-visibility initiative for veterans that is coming soon from the White House.

The link to the free training, created by our own Director of Veteran Affairs and Iraqi War Vet  Lee Kelley, is below, and it’s really designed to get you thinking about some of the very first steps you should take as you transition out of the military and into the civilian world. With over a million people projected to get out of the military in the next few years, this training is more important than ever.

GET THE TRAINING!

Future courses will cover topics such as resume writing and interviewing, but as you’ll see, we think that the first steps should be all about defining and refining your vision before developing your actual resume and other application materials.

We really value your feedback! This draft of the course is still a work in progress. We are inviting you to watch it today so that we can get your feedback and make the course even better in time for the White House initiative. Please take a look, enjoy, and then provide us with feedback either here or on our facebook pages.

Veterans Transition HQ facebook page

CareerPro Global’s facebook page

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Thank you for your service, and Happy Veterans Day.

OPM proposes new pathways to employment

The new Pathways Program is meant to streamline the recruitment of interns into the federal government while giving preference status to veterans, something the latter believed had been missing in the past. As always, it will be interesting to see how the final plan looks upon its start in January 2012.  Will Pathways make it easier or more difficult for veterans to grab a spot? Will the new program welcome veterans in name only or fulfill the promise?  What are your thoughts?

OPM proposes new pathways to employment