How to Get Someone to Read Your Resume (and Hire You!) Does it feel like no one is reading your resume? Does it feel like you are not even getting a chance to get an interview? It...
How to Get a Job Right Now in the COVID Economy It's time to reevaluate your skills to see whether they fit the new marketplace.
How to Get a Job at the CIA and What It's Like to Work There Starting a career with the Central Intelligence Agency might be a little more mundane than your CIA dreams.
How to Foster Diversity, Equity and Inclusion as a Civilian Employee If an employer implements Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives, it expects you to be on board.
How to Explain Why You Left a Toxic Workplace Without Bashing Your Old Boss Explaining why you left a previous employer without having a new job in place, without giving two weeks’ notice or leaving an...
How to Evaluate Offers, Get More $$$ and Avoid a Bridge Job After the Military How to evaluate your job offer is a key skill of the job hunt in military transition. Avoid the horrors of a bridge job by...
The 9 Circles of Networking Hell for Veterans (And How to Escape) All job seekers eventually end up in Networking Hell. It is not exactly Dante's Inferno, but it is a place where you are...
How to Talk Effectively with Your (Civilian) Boss Civilian employers may not be familiar with the way many veterans speak, and it could be off-putting. Here's how to avoid...
How to Do Pre-Interview Research That Will Impress Job Recruiters A little research goes a long way in getting that first post-military job.
How the Department of Labor Rewards Companies for Hiring Veterans The Honoring Investments in Recruiting and Employing American Military Veterans Act of 2017 - or HIRE Vets Act - was created...
Federal Government Shutdown Grinds into a Second Week as Tempers Flare at the Capitol As the federal government shutdown enters a second week, there’s no discernible endgame in sight.
Trump Targets Blumenthal, Calling for Investigation into Senator's Vietnam Service Claims President Donald Trump is targeting U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal again after Connecticut’s senior U.S. senator grilled U.S...
At 50, He Survived Marine Boot Camp — Then Fought at Peleliu and Okinawa When 50-year-old Paul Douglas showed up at Marine Corps boot camp in 1942, the white-haired economics professor looked more...
Ukrainian Drones Attack Russian Cavalry Troops in Rare 21st-Century Encounter A short video circulating online this month appears to show a Russian mounted patrol being struck by a Ukrainian drone near...
When The Government Can Afford Everything Except The Essentials Every shutdown forces the government to decide what counts as “essential.” Air traffic controllers and TSA agents fall into...