EDUCATION & CAREERS
Converting Military Experience In To
Civilian Context Applicability Is the Key
to Successful Military Resume Writing
by Shayane Johns
There are many thousands of service personnel who
wish to transit in to a civilian job. Sometimes this
happens after a lifetime of being employed in the military and under such circumstances; their sole work
experience is within the forces. In such circumstances, the need for converting and aligning the military
work experience to civilian job environment becomes
a necessity to highlight the applicant’s capabilities.
The best way to write a military resume is to find the
most suitable way to highlight the military experience
and make the experience gained transferable to a civilian job. When the resume is written in this manner,
the potential employer will be able to identify the relevance of the military skills of the soldier and find that
these skills are suitable for the civilian job.
For example, most people in
with following directions and
sure. These key elements are
type of jobs as fire fighters or
the military are good
working under presprerequisites in some
disaster management
personnel. Therefore, including this information on
their resume will benefit the applicants.
What is the job objective? A good resume requires
specific details. Many people make the mistake of
being too general in their job objective and as a result will not be selected. When writing the resume,
applicants have to be specific and define the civilian
job objective. This requires much soul searching on
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