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Best Careers for Veterans
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Shows veterans how to parlay their military-acquired skills into a meaningful civilian job with a generous compensation package.
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Detailed Description
By the Editors at Learning Express
Best Careers for Veterans is the ultimate career guide for military personnel who want to leverage their experience and skills into a rewarding, high-paying civilian job post-service.
Whether having completed a single tour of duty or a full 20 years of service, veterans possess a unique set of technical, organizational and leadership skills. With this book they can learn how to parlay these skills into a meaningful civilian job with a generous compensation package.
This book provides essential guidance that veterans need to successfully transition into the civilian work world, with advice on:
- Defining career interests, skills and lifestyle
- Trends in the workforce
- Existing career opportunities
- Sources for jobs, such as networking, job fairs, federal, state and municipal agencies, employment agencies, Internet sources, and more
- Appropriate civilian career wardrobes
- Writing resumes, cover letters, and thank you letters that will get you noticed
- Resume preparation and distribution
- Do's and don'ts of interviewing, commonly asked interview questions, providing references
- Assessing compensation and benefits
- Performance reviews and raises
210 pages. Approximately 7 x 10. Softcover. 2009.
IDM
0811
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