Master Class Video Library

Our master classes take you step-by-step through the answers to the tough questions you have around how to find the right job in the right career field. These informative classes leave off the cheerleading and get right to the instructions you are looking for about how to write a resume that will actually be seen, what career field to choose, and how to determine where you fit in a civilian organization based on when you left the service. Watch our previous master classes below or sign up for one of our upcoming master classes now.

Master Class How to Get a Government Job

Master Class: How to Get a Government Job

The federal government is the largest single employer of veterans—they want your subject matter expertise, transferrable skills, and security clearance. So how come you are not even getting the interview?

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Master Class: The Postseason Job Hunt: Your Essential Playbook for the Hottest Job Market of the Year

For transitioning military, from here to Thanksgiving is traditionally the hottest job market of the year, which is strange. Because this is the part of the year you have the least amount of time. In this master class, you will learn how to pare down your overwhelming to-do list to the seven essential plays that lead straight to a job offer.

Master Class Resume Learning Lab

Master Class: Resume Learning Lab: How to Clean It Up and Get It Out There

In our 60-minute Veteran Employment Project Learning Lab, find out how to clean up your resume and get it out there to find a job.

Employment Strategies for Female Veterans

Master Class: Connect and Conquer: Employment Strategies for Female Veterans and Spouses

So many employers want to hire female veterans and spouses right now for their leadership skills, work presence, and job skills.

How To Become a Project Manager in Defense, Government, IT, or Business

Master Class: How to Become a Project Manager in Defense, Government, IT or Business

Project manager is the name of the game for so many transitioning military and spouses. These are jobs for people who can organize a group, establish deliverables, and bring about on-time, on-budget completion.

Master Class: Working for Yourself: Entrepreneurial Opportunities for Veterans and Spouses

Master Class: Working for Yourself: Entrepreneurial Opportunities for Veterans and Spouses

You have been a leader all your life. Why stop now? Transitioning military veterans and spouses can be astonishing entrepreneurs when given the right opportunity.

Master Class: Checklist Resume for Active Duty and Veterans

Master Class: Checklist Resume for Active Duty and Veterans

Are you using the correct resume format during your military transition, or is your old-school TAP resume keeping you from getting the interviews you deserve? Learn how to write the checklist resume recruiters love with our easy two-part checklist template.

Master Class: Checklist Resume for Spouses

Master Class: Checklist Resume for Spouses

After the third move, military spouses notice that the military is profoundly affecting their salary prospects, job hunt, and career. In this 60-minute master class for spouses, learn how to overcome the resume and find the work you deserve.

LinkedIn Power: Cranking Up Your Visibility

Master Class: LinkedIn Power: Cranking Up Your Visibility

As a veteran, spouse, or transitioning military member, your job hunt is unlike any typical civilian. You may have noticed that LinkedIn's on-label uses are not working well for you. That's why you need our exclusive LinkedIn Method to apply our off-label uses of LinkedIn.

Master Class: Federal Resume Lab

Master Class: Federal Resume Lab

Now that you have learned the basics in our Master Class, The Undeniable Federal Resume or Federal Resume Reboot, it is time to write your own federal resume.

The Undeniable Federal Resume: How Veterans and Spouses Can Land the Federal Job Offer

Master Class: The Undeniable Federal Resume: How Veterans and Spouses Can Land the Federal Job Offer

Did you know the most common reason veterans and spouses do not get a federal job interview is because they submitted their corporate resume for a federal job?

Master Class: New Year, New Career

Master Class: New Year, New Career

Are you leaving the military in 2024? Are you looking for a new civilian job? We are ready to help with our newest transition master class, New Year, New Career: How to Get Your Job Hunt Off to A Fresh Start.

Play Your Aces

Master Class: Play Your Aces: How Your Security Clearance Works in the Job Market

Everyone says they want a job in tech after the military because they want to land a job fast, get paid a lot of money, and take on a new challenge. But what do people really do on those tech jobs? Find out in our newest 60-minute transition master class.

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Master Class: Tech Jobs: What Do Those People Really Do?

Everyone says they want a job in tech after the military because they want to land a job fast, get paid a lot of money, and take on a new challenge. But what do people really do on those tech jobs? Who succeeds, and who fails?

Show Me the Money

Master Class: Show Me the Money: Secret Practices of the Best-Paid Veterans

What keeps you up at night during military transition? The money. Everyone secretly worries about whether or not they will get a job, whether it will pay enough to pay the bills, and whether they will be able to keep up with their peers.

Master Class Resume Learning Lab

Master Class Resume Learning Lab: How to Clean It Up and Get it Out There

In our 60-minute Veteran Employment Project Learning Lab, find out how to clean up your resume and get it out there to find a job.

Master Class: The Introvert Advantage: How Introverts Can Beat Extroverts to the Job Offer

Master Class: The Introvert Advantage: How Introverts Can Beat Extroverts to the Job Offer

An extrovert must have invented the job hunt. No introvert would have dreamt up the idea that you can pick the best person for a job based on a skimpy resume and a 20-minute grilling over random questions by a stranger.

Master Class: LinkedIn Lab

Master Class: LinkedIn Lab

Do you want to get a pair of fresh eyes on your LinkedIn profile? Do you want some feedback that will help, not hurt? Do you want to apply the things you learned at Stealth LinkedIn, but you aren't sure where to start? I can help.

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Master Class: Stealth LinkedIn: The Real Way LinkedIn Can Help You Get A Job

In this new 60-minute master class, you will learn how to use LinkedIn, so it really DOES help you find a job by offering invisible networking prompts, market research, reality checks, and so much more.

Fearless

Master Class: Fearless: How to Be A Rich Military Spouse

Military Spouse is not your dream job—you don’t think of it as a “job” at all. But marrying someone in the military has started affecting your career in ways you could not have predicted.

Federal Resume

Master Class: Federal Resume Reboot

They might have written that federal job description for you. You have all the job experience they are looking for. The job is in your location. The job even sounds interesting. So why didn’t you get called for the interview?

Master Class: Blast Start Resume

Master Class: Blast Start Resume: Complete Your Resume in Just 60 Minutes

Are you using the right resume format during your military transition, or is your resume keeping you from getting the interviews you deserve? Learn how to write the resume hiring managers and recruiters love with our easy two-part template.

Dream Job

Master Class: How to Identify Your Dream Job in the Civilian World

“What kind of job are you looking for?” It is the one question everyone asks you during military transition—and the one you are bound to get wrong. Because how are you supposed to know what the world expects from you when you have spent your entire adult life in the military?

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Master Class: Finding the Federal Job 2.0

The federal government is the largest single employer of veterans—they want your subject matter expertise, transferrable skills, and security clearance. So how come you are not even getting the interview?

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Master Class: Secrets of Recruiters

If you are looking for a job following military service, you are probably missing out on one of the most powerful connections you could ever have—the recruiters, sourcers, and talent acquisition professionals who are looking for you. Helping them find you is so much easier than you think.

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Master Class: Next Level Negotiation — How to Get Your Biggest Paycheck Ever

Negotiation for your best paycheck starts before the offer finally pops up in your email. Negotiations go through three distinct stages. Knowing what those stages are and how to master them can increase your bottom line.

Networking Without Awkwardness

Master Class: Networking Without Awkwardness

Networking is the part of job hunting military members dread most. It sounds like nothing but awkward conversations with strangers in which you feel like an alien begging for a job.

Female Veteran

Master Class: Female Veterans

So many employers want to hire female veterans right now. In our 60-minute class, find out what opportunities employers have for you, how to wade through the offers that will come your way, and catch up with the secret signs of success expected of you in the civilian world.

Master Class: Fistful of Dollars: Financial Literacy for the Transitioning Veteran

There are many financial strategies to help you get from the active-duty side of the river to the civilian side with your fistful of dollars still intact. In our new FREE Transition Master Class for Financial Strategies, USAA-certified financial planner J.J. Montanaro will join me to answer your transition finance questions.

Master Class: Find Defense Contractor Jobs

Your military experience may have given you the kind of knowledge, skills and abilities defense contractors need to get the job done. You may even qualify as a Subject Matter Expert. But you can’t get the job if the recruiter cannot find you. In this master class, learn what the big and small defense contractors are looking for and how to prepare your LinkedIn and resume to help them find you.

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Master Class: Reverse Resume for Spouses

After the third move, military spouses notice that the military is having a profound effect on their salary prospects, their job hunt, and their career. In this 60-minute master class for spouses only, learn how to overcome the resume and find the work you deserve.

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Master Class: The Checklist Resume

Everyone says a resume won’t get you the job, but an old school resume will keep you from getting the job you want. Learn our trick to identifying the keywords employers want to see that will make requests for interview pop up everywhere in this one-hour master class.

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Master Class: Security Clearance Jobs for Veterans

How much is your security clearance worth on the job market? How do you know if it is still active? What kind of jobs are looking for someone with your skills --and are they all overseas? Get answers to these questions and more in this new Transition Master Class for transitioning military, veterans with experience and spouses.

Master Class: How to Nail the Job Offer—Interview Skills for Veterans

The biggest mistake veterans and spouses make in the job hunt is skipping interview prep. And why not? Interview questions seem so obvious. But when you do the interview and don’t get the job offer that means you missed the coded questions the hiring manager was really asking. In just an hour, learn how to make informational interviews, online interviews and formal interviews turn into the job offer you really want.

Employment of computer and information technology occupations is projected to grow 13 percent from 2016 to 2026, faster than the average for all occupations.

Master Class: Tech Jobs Without a Tech Background

Every job is a tech job in today’s economy. So what if your rate or MOS had nothing to do with tech? Our veteran service organizations have partnered with some of the best tech companies to get you up to speed. In this one-hour master class, learn how you can gear up for tech jobs while you finish your military service.

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Master Class: Veteran Friendly Employers You Don't Already Know

Outside of Government and Defense, who wants to hire transitioning military and spouses? Everyone. Yet some employers are more motivated than others. Help employers find you with this new Transition Master Class. In just 60 minutes we will help you find the secret door employers have set up for you to join their workforce fast.

Master Class: Spouse

Master Class: Spouse

You can have it all as a military spouse, but you have to strategize to overcome the natural obstacles that come with military marriage. In this Master Class, we take a hard look at strategies to combine career and family with military life.

Master Class: Veteran+

Master Class: Veteran+

After a military career, you landed a job in the civilian world that didn’t work out the way you hoped. Where do you go from here? Take stock of where you are now and decide about your future direction.

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Master Class: Federal Resume

The key to getting the interview and landing a Federal Job is all about writing an epic resume. Unfortunately, your regular resume—even with tweaks—just won’t work. So how do you decode the federal job listing so that your resume takes you to the top of the MUST INTERVIEW pile?

Master Class: Senior Military

Master Class: Senior Military

After your career success in the military, what does the civilian world hold for you? Where do your skills fit in? Learn to network with honor and say the right words at the right time in order to find your next career. The world wants your EXPERTISE.