How can transitioning senior military leaders apply this knowledge successfully during interviews with
prospective civilian employers?
VSB: At what point, from a strictly legal perspective, may senior military leaders still on active duty begin to have informal conversations with
prospective civilian employers, assuming the employers are not currently conducting business with the individual's military service?
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Find out how to translate your skills and experience in a way that makes sense to your target audience — a
prospective employer in the
civilian sector.
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This includes having a headshot in professional business attire, rather than in military uniform, so that
prospective employers understand you are not dwelling on the past, but are focused and passionate about what you can do for a
civilian employer going forward.
Your military resume should be formatted in such way that the
prospective employers can see the consequence of your military skills for any
civilian job.
You have to put your skill set into the context of your
prospective employer, demilitarizing (translating) your language so that any
civilian could understand.
Military experience has many applications in
civilian life, and our resumes will perfectly explain how this can be used to the advantage of
prospective employers.
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Civilian resume ready to send out to a
prospective employer can be a difficult and time consuming process.