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Hiring-Heroes Initiative Needs More Answers

Are businesses not doing enough to hire veterans, or do we simply have a bigger problem on our hands that politics continues to ignore? An article titled “Businesses Must Hire More Vets” written By Michelle Obama and Jill Biden who launched Joining Forces (Nationwide campaign to support veterans and military families) caught my attention. An [...]

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Avoid Common Job-Hunting Mistakes

In my last article I spoke about four common job-hunting mistakes for veterans: Using one method to search for jobs, disregarding social media, resume not “up to speed” and lack of knowledge about your career field. Here are the final four common job-hunting mistakes that can have an impact on finding employment. Pay doesn’t meet [...]

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Avoid Common Job-Hunting Mistakes

Once separated from the military, transitioning veterans will be faced with new challenges entering the struggling civilian job market. Older veterans will be faced with age discrimination and budget cuts. Younger veterans will be faced with salaries not matching their experience and stiff competition. As a veteran though, you can better your odds finding employment [...]

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The Benefits of Volunteering

Today’s military is known as an all-volunteer force, but when we separate from the military we may not even think about continuing to serve our county by being a volunteer in the civilian world. Although some Veteran’s may find themselves with a job immediately after separating from the military, today many Veteran’s have to begin [...]

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Jobs Posted on USAJOBS

Since I have been applying for positions to work for the government, especially for the Veterans Affairs and Dept. of the Air Force, it has come to my attention that when a job is posted on USAJOBS, it doesn’t necessarily mean there is an opening at that location. This is something I had no clue [...]

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Job Cuts Seen Throughout the Air Force

It is obvious that the economy is still not where it was before it took a nose dive back in October of 2008. Companies are still laying off workers, thousands of newly unemployed Americans are filing unemployment benefits at this moment, and the talk of falling into a deeper recession still lingers. However, not only [...]

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    I'm a four year veteran of the U.S. Air Force and the Founder of Transitioning Veteran.com. After separating honorably from the service back in 2003, I completed a Masters degree in School Guidance Counseling, a member of the John P. Jennings Veterans Advisory Panel, a volunteer for The Soldiers Project, and now work as a Veterans Rep for N.Y. State. I created this blog to reach out to other Veterans of the Armed Forces and share my experiences in life after the military.
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