Military Transition Programs Focus Too Much on Higher Education, Not Enough on Jobs, Rand Report Says The new report takes a deep dive into how the roughly $13 billion spent annually on helping service members transition out of...
How to Join the FBI After Leaving the Military Even if you didn't have a combat arms military specialty, the FBI wants to hear from you.
How and When to Begin Networking for Your Post-Military Career Being proactive about networking is a good practice before you find your first post-military job and throughout your career.
How to Evaluate Offers, Get More $$$ and Avoid a Bridge Job After the Military How to evaluate your job offer is a key skill of the job hunt in military transition. Avoid the horrors of a bridge job by...
The 9 Circles of Networking Hell for Veterans (And How to Escape) All job seekers eventually end up in Networking Hell. It is not exactly Dante's Inferno, but it is a place where you are...
How to Create a Successful Transition Timeline Planning is the key to a successful transition to civilian life; here's how to create one.
How Can You Transition When You Don't Know What You Want? What kind of work are you looking for? As a senior service member approaching transition, you know you are supposed to be...
How to Build a Professional Network for Your Civilian Career Military members get excellent technical training, but often lack professional civilian networks.
Master Class: How to Be a Project Manager Being a project manager is a natural role for a veteran or military spouse. Your ability to see what needs to be done...
Top 10 Treacherous Traps to Federal Employment for Veterans and Spouses Here are the top 10 traps that might be knocking you off the employment path before you ever get to the federal job you want.
Federal Government Shutdown Grinds into a Second Week as Tempers Flare at the Capitol As the federal government shutdown enters a second week, there’s no discernible endgame in sight.
Trump Targets Blumenthal, Calling for Investigation into Senator's Vietnam Service Claims President Donald Trump is targeting U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal again after Connecticut’s senior U.S. senator grilled U.S...
At 50, He Survived Marine Boot Camp — Then Fought at Peleliu and Okinawa When 50-year-old Paul Douglas showed up at Marine Corps boot camp in 1942, the white-haired economics professor looked more...
Ukrainian Drones Attack Russian Cavalry Troops in Rare 21st-Century Encounter A short video circulating online this month appears to show a Russian mounted patrol being struck by a Ukrainian drone near...
When The Government Can Afford Everything Except The Essentials Every shutdown forces the government to decide what counts as “essential.” Air traffic controllers and TSA agents fall into...