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Transitioning Military: Make Yourself a Great Candidate

Every day my work mailbox includes pitches from people who want to place articles on my blogs or sell me products or services. Most clearly don’t know what I do, or they’ve never read the blog they say they want to write for. I give these emails maybe two seconds before … more

4 Workout Tips for Getting Your Job Search in Shape for Summer

With summer just around the corner, people are talking about working on their beach bodies—especially after emerging from a year of quarantine. But if you’re looking for a new career opportunity, now is the time to focus on getting your job search in shape. Similar to a … more

Memorial Day 2021

It goes without saying that the COVID pandemic during this past year has been an enormous challenge for our country as well as the rest of the world. A great many lives have been lost and many others have been changed forever.  The encouraging news is that according to t… more

Interview with a Recruiter, Jo Weech, Teracore

A day in the life for me is primarily filled with meeting after meeting, and making sure that hiring managers are getting the feedback that they need and obtaining the input from them that is needed to create job descriptions. I work on wordsmithing and crafting job descript… more

Foreign Influence & Preference and Your Security Clearance

As official Washington begins to pull the reigns in with respect to security clearance in the post 9/11 world, agencies are making it clear about how they will approach situations dealing with issues of Foreign Influence and Preference in their security circles of trust. Whi… more