MilitarytoCivilian Success for Veterans and Their Families: The Ultimate ReImagining Guide for Making Smart ReCareering, Rel,Used

Each year nearly 250,000 servicemembers and their families leave the military. While a few (10 percent) go into fulltime retirement, most expect to work for at least another 10, 20, or 30 years. So, what kind of employment decisions will they make? Where will they live? When and where will they retire? Faced with numerous forks in the road, most transitioning military want to make smart recareering, relocation, and retirement decisions. They welcome useful advice.Like a good friend, MilitarytoCivilian Success for Veterans and Their Families is designed to help anyone achieve transition success in the less structured and more chaotic civilian world. It forces readers to address one of the most important questions about their future: What do you want to do with the rest of your life? The answers hopefully involve more than just making money or acquiring more depreciating stuff.Successfully managing this process begins with changing one's mindset about meaning and purpose in life. Ideally, one should find work that confirms what so many other people in transition have discovered: If you pursue your passion, you'll be happy and healthy for the rest of your life!When it comes time to recareer, don't just focus on jobs that look interesting or pay well. Instead, explore those that directly relate to one's motivated abilities, skills, and values. This book shows how one can make that happen and thus direct one's focus toward those things that are the most important to them.Representing a greatly expanded version of the author's 4.5+ million copy MilitarytoCivilian Transition Guide (annually distributed to all transitioning military), this book is filled with timeless tips for launching a successful transition into the civilian world. It also addresses important relocation, retirement, and benefit issues.Its 19 chapters cover the new world of work, transferable skills, best jobs, top 100 employers, attitudes, skills, goals, applications, resumes, letters, dress, online job search, job fairs, networking, interviews, salary, job offers, career advancement, overcoming setbacks, and much more. Special features include: 150 militaryfriendly and best employers 103 compensation elements for negotiating salaries 47 tough interview questions you should be prepared to answer 40 myths and realities of the job search process 40 employment trends 25 jobkeeping and advancement strategies 20 principles for job search success 19 sample resumes 14 things you need to know before starting a business 11 samples letters and focus pieces 7 sequential job search steps you must followThe book also includes numerous selfassessment tests and exercises, a realistic planning and implementation time line, job search contract, weekly performance reports, advice on relocation, tips on starting a business, questions about retirement, and useful military transition resources.