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  Net – Work – Ing

  Networking. It’s important to job search the same way planting seeds in the spring time is important to someone hoping for vegetables in the fall. Like gardening, it can be harder than it looks. Once you know how to plant the seeds, however, it makes perfect sense and becomes e… more

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  Getting the Most from a Professional Conference

  I love going to conferences! I’ve added two certifications, gotten a job, provided valuable knowledge and expertise to projects and made some life-long professional colleagues and mentors from attending professional conferences. I’ve also wasted time, money and energy at a fe… more

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  5 Questions with Veteran Fred Wellman

  Fred founded ScoutComms in 2010, a communications firm supporting veterans, military families and organizations committed to their well-being. Fred has provided our weekly Defense Roundup for three years. That roundup is now expanding to include more veterans issues. 1.  W… more

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  Proposed Security Clearance Reforms Detail Navy Yard Shooter Missteps

  87 percent of OPM’s security clearance background investigation files are “incomplete.” That’s one of the many eye-opening findings in the recently released House of Representatives Oversight and Government Reform Committee report detailing flaws in the security cleara… more

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  Sell Recruiters on the Benefits of Hiring You

  People buy benefits. It’s true for selling a car, a house or you, to a prospective employer. The most frequent problem I see with job seekers’ written and verbal presentations of themselves? No benefits. A lack of the very thing that can sell a prospective employer on givi… more