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All posts by Rob Riggins

  • Take That Phone Screen Interview Seriously

    The first step in your interviewing path to a new cleared job is typically a phone-screen interview, before an in-person interview is scheduled. That saves everyone time. What many cleared job seekers don’t realize is that their casual preparation and responses to phone-scre… more

  • The Most Popular Cleared Jobs of 2017

    When you're looking for a new cleared job, it's good to know if you have a lot of competition. The cleared community is getting smaller, and the unemployment rate is very low, so you may think that your path to a new job is wide open. It may be -- but it depends on your skill set… more

  • Does Your Resume Show You’ll Make a $10M Error

    Ever write an email and realize – almost as soon as you hit “send” - that you have a typo, grammatical error or other stumble? The embarrassment you feel is nothing compared to the despair most of us feel when we make similar stumbles on resumes, cover letters or other app… more

  • So You Didn’t Get the Job, Now What

    You are not the only one who has lost out on a cleared job – honest. Of course the sting of rejection makes you feel as if you’re an outcast. Plenty of successful people were voted off their islands or never made it onto them – Madonna was fired from Dunkin’ Donuts. Je… more

  • How to Cancel or Reschedule an Interview

    There is nothing worse for a hiring manager than carving time out of the day to sit with a cleared job seeker who is clearly going through the motions. That is unless it’s waiting as the clock ticks well past the scheduled time of the interview, with no candidate in sight. I… more