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  It’s the Fourth Quarter Where Is Your Talent Pool

  Summertime. Lazy days by the pool or enjoying a round of golf. In the defense and intelligence community it’s the fiscal fourth quarter and RFPs are dropping. While colleagues are enjoying summer vacations, most cleared recruiters are working on proposals rather than their tans… more

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  120 Powerful Resume Words to Get A Cleared Job

  Some of the issues I encounter when reviewing job seekers’ resumes are descriptions loaded with subjective language, misleading inclusivity, or passive language. Examples are: Performed flawlessly - subjective, provide results instead of an adjective. Responsible for t… more

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  How to Fail Your Military Transition

  Want to ensure you have trouble finding a civilian job? Looking forward to months without a job? Ready to go through 3-4 job searches in your first few years after the military? Probably NOT!  But those problems are quite common. Failure 1: Defining a Specific Career/Job Y… more

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  For Job Seekers Guilty of Having a 3+ Page Resume

  If you're guilty as charged, think of your resume as a sales brochure. Way too often we still see candidates for jobs submitting resumes that go on and on. Six or seven pages is not uncommon. These lengthy resumes often also contain big blocks of paragraphs, filled with te… more

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  Cyber Workforce Conundrum

  Each day we hear a new report about the challenges in finding IT professionals to fill an ever mounting number of cybersecurity positions. From commercial to the government contracting space, organizations realize their increased vulnerabilities, and their need to have teams to p… more