Professional Experience - Your professional experience should include your job functions, but more importantly, your accomplishments or impact statements. Eliminated two-year backlog; created new filing systems and procedures that ensured critical material was easily accessible at all times. The average civilian may have heard some of these terms and titles floated around in the movies and TV shows; but the majority of civilians would be hard pressed to accurately associate a title to the correct echelon.
Education, Credentials, Licenses, Training - Here relevance is key. Include information that is relevant to the position. The same goes for civilian education.
Some awards demonstrate your ability to perform the task at a high level. Even though these may not be directly relevant to a job per se, most employers are also looking to hire people with leadership ability, dedication, and strong character. Therefore, stand-out awards such as Purple Hearts or Bronze Stars should be included because they demonstrate those qualities very effectively.
Medals, awards, or any other honors you received are fair game. Include it in your skills and certifications sections. The military likely certified you to perform certain tasks, and those certifications might carry a lot of weight depending on your industry.
Get a second opinion. They can identify confusing aspects that someone with a military background might take for granted.
Avoid acronyms and military-specific jargon. Take care to exclude the latter ones where possible. Leave out irrelevant certifications. Weapons training is probably not quite as relevant.
List it the same way that you would any other work experience. Even if the truth is a bit more complicated, anyone reading your resume should be able to understand the short version of your experience at a glance. Stick to a few short bullet points, and make sure to list dates.
Describe non-obvious items from on your resume. Plus, a great resume will give you an advantage over other candidates. You can write it in our resume builder here.
Keep the conversation on topic. On the other hand, some civilian employers might be hesitant to bring up your military background out of nervousness. Keep things relevant. If you have a decade or more of military experience, remember that the rules are the same as with civilian job experience — talk about the most relevant thing first.
Decline inappropriate questions. Proven leader with 8 years of experience training, supervising, and leading over personnel. Gregg how does it value by putting it on the resume?
It would be good for a government job or government contractor. In most cases of civilian employer they are still going to do the on due diligence. SCPO Join to see 7 y. CW2 Raymond - I'm unclear what you're asking about. Regarding clearances - they are essential in some fields, but unimportant in others. The first part was stated explicitly, the second is implied I thought. If you're asking why you don't specify compartments - simple, to do so almost certainly constitutes unauthorized and likely illegal disclosure of classified information.
Most non-government related jobs don't care about clearances or polygraphs - some employers may view it as a plus, I suppose. Like I said originally, in my field the clearances are essential. You are correct just making an observation about the resumes that list a security clearance.
In most cases to me it does not add value and the roles don't require it. It is not a right way or wrong way it is the preference of the person creating the resume. Show More Comments. Read This Next. Sponsored Ad.
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