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All posts by Patra Frame

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  How Do You Find a Senior Cleared Position

  A common theme at Cleared Job Fairs is the number of people who are looking for senior roles in management or professional jobs who lament how tough the job search is. Often this starts with a variant of ‘I keep applying for jobs but I never hear back.’ Few seem to realize th… more

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  Salary Reality Bites

  The past five years have been quite difficult for people in the cleared space and throughout government contracting. Jobs have disappeared while existing pay rates have been cut. On average, wages started declining in 2010 and that process increased as sequestration kicked in. In… more

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  Is It Time to Reboot Your Job Search or Your Career

  Are you feeling stuck at work? Is your search taking far longer than you expected? Have you missed promotions or pay increases? Lost more than you can recoup holding out for the perfect paycheck? For at least two decades I have regularly talked with people who were unemployed for… more

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  3 Tips to Improve Your Resume Now

  What were the top three take-aways from the resume reviews at recent ClearedJobs.Net Cleared Job Fairs? Tip 1: Get Critical Info Right Up Top The top third of the first page is ‘ golden’  space to sell yourself so a hiring manager or recruiter will look at your resume … more

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  How to Handle Employment Gaps

  Once upon a time, the main employment gaps were among mothers returning to the work force. But now, such gaps are fairly common. More men are taking on family care, middle career people and retiring military are taking sabbaticals, it's not as easy to roll from one contract to an… more