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In his final session Mr. Allen spent time with two recruiters and was able to ask the questions that you never really get to ask a recruiter about the recruiting process, interviews and everything else. These sessions were powerful, eye-opening and completely off the record, but we can honestly say everyone has great information to take away from the meetings. Our thanks to Chris Griesbach of General Dynamics IT and John Garrett of HP Enterprise Services for the time they devoted to the Extreme Job Search Makeover. It is no surprise that these great recruiters have been voted Best Recruiters many times over. 

Given the great response from the…

After job board intelligence, our third session for Mr. Allen was Social Networking with a primary focus on LinkedIn. While Mr. Allen had a LinkedIn profile, it had not been completed or structured to support his job search, so these were some of the first tips that were shared.

We researched Mr. Allen’s background, interests and career goals, to determine which groups he may want to join to expand his professional career network. For example alumni groups, key skill set groups and a few special interest groups. Then we took a quick test drive through some of the features of LinkedIn and how to use the platform for job search,…

Our second session for Mr. Allen was reviewing the key points of how to navigate a job board. Many job seekers don’t know how to leverage the features of a job board to leverage their job search.

Mr. Allen was also given a rare opportunity to see the back end of the job board and how an Employer would search for his resume and how it would look. This provided key intelligence as to how to structure his resume. 

The two key items Mr. Allen learned during his session about the way recruiters search for resumes on a job board:

1) The top two inches of the resume are key real…

The first Extreme Job Search Makeover session was about stepping back and developing an overall career search strategy. All too often job seekers think that the resume is the end all be all, rather than a tactic in the overall job search strategy. A resume is just one aspect of the job search.

Developing a career strategy includes many components such as networking, social networking, job fairs, job boards and employer referral programs. However it starts with asking some very difficult questions about “everything” that makes you successful and everything you bring to the table. Things such as what are your personal goals and desires and how your job…

It was an exciting time this last spring as we looked over the applications for the Extreme Job Search Makeover. While we had many entries, one that stood out to us captured the essence of what many security cleared job professionals were grappling with.

“Please tell us why you are in need of an Extreme Job Search Makeover: It has been over seven years since I last entered the job market. I am rusty, my resume is out-of-date, my interviewing skills are in great need of a tune up. I am looking to make a career transition within the intelligence community and having this educational opportunity will, I…