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Top Resume Tips: Overall Formatting of Your Resume

Research shows that hiring managers typically spend less than one minute skimming over a resume and many companies are utilizing computerized applicant tracking systems these days to scan resumes before they even make it to a set of human eyes. Does your resume highlight your skills and accomplishments, demonstrate if you are a good fit […]

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Top Resume Tips: Accomplishment Statements

Research shows that hiring managers typically spend less than one minute skimming over a resume and many companies are utilizing computerized applicant tracking systems these days to scan resumes before they even make it to a set of human eyes. Does your resume highlight your skills and accomplishments, demonstrate if you are a good fit […]

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Top Resume Tips: Professional Summaries

Professional Summaries: Research shows that hiring managers typically spend less than one minute skimming over a resume and many companies are utilizing computerized applicant tracking systems these days to scan resumes before they even make it to a set of human eyes. Does your resume highlight your skills and accomplishments, demonstrate if you are a […]

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3 Steps to Finding a Job at Your New Duty Station – Guest Post by Kara Rajchel

This is a guest post by Kara Rajchel, freelance web designer & content writer. Thank you, Kara, for sharing your job search story!   It’s inevitable. Military spouses know it’s only a matter of time before orders will be handed out and they will be moving to who knows where.  A month after my husband returned […]

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Supercharged Networking

This interview with Amy Schofield, of Schofield Strategies, originally appeared on Successful Military Wife.     By: Kaye Putnam Welcome to the Successful Military Wife Show! This series is an audio show that features the success stories of military spouses. By learning from the ones do who have “figured it out” we can use their […]

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Professional Associations Keep Military Spouses at the Top of Their Games

This article, written by Pamela McBride, originally appeared on Salute to Spouses.   By: Pamela McBride While working at the Fleet & Family Support Center to help fellow Navy wives job hunt, Sophia Marshall embarked on her own career path. She decided to learn more about the career services field and resume writing services. Her […]

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Military Spouse Resume Infographic – Best Practices

Military Spouse Resume Infographic Schofield Strategies developed a Military Spouse Resume Infographic in conjunction with the National Military Spouse Network (NMSN). This infographic was featured in NMSN’s annual career summit program. The infographic shows a sample resume format. It also includes more than 15 resume best practice tips for military spouses: Page layout How to highlight skills Ways to […]

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