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Starting your job search and need direction? Already in your job search and need direction?

Download our Cleared Job Seeker Guide. It’s a step-by-step guide designed to assist security cleared job seekers in their next career move, providing practical tips and guidance for every aspect of a cleared job search.

From building an initial strategy, to developing job search tools such as a resume, to tips on interviewing and salary negotiation, the Cleared Job Seeker Guide is a roadmap to keep job seekers on track for for success. Chapters include:

1. Career Development Strategy
2. Resumes, Profiles and Your Elevator Speech
3. Job Boards and Career…

Been hunting for a new job for awhile? Or thinking of starting a job search? Summer is a great time to ‘sharpen your saw’ to quote an old proverb.

Too many people just update an old resume, tell all their friends that they need a new job, and look at ads online. Not the best methods! Times change, technologies change, and job hunting becomes a whole new effort. You need to know what works now. To learn how to present your best self for the work you want.

First, learn about job search now.

There are a lot of great online sources. If you prefer to read articles and do…

Veteran technical recruiter Doug Munro shares how he uses social media to vet cleared job seekers.

Doug uses LinkedIn to find a more robust picture of a job seeker’s experience and abilities vs. what is found on a resume.

And he relates the sage advice we all know now – If you wouldn’t tell your grandmother or your current boss something, don’t post it online. Even if you have all your privacy settings locked down.

+Rob Riggins

U.S. Defense Companies Should Remain Strong if No Sequestration

Marcus Weisgerber, Defense News. Defense department and Congressional leaders told an investors conference last week that those companies and programs that have survived the current budget cuts are more than likely to survive the next five years, barring the dreaded sequestration when all bets are off. Dr. Ashton Carter, Deputy Secretary of Defense and Rep. Adam Smith (D-Wash) both echoed the sentiment that they don’t believe sequestration will occur and that the market should be settling for the defense industry.

Pentagon Contends with Surplus of Trucks

Marjorie Censer, Capital Business, Washington Post. The military rushed to buy tens of thousands of…

ClearedJobs.Net invites you to follow the Military Spouse Employment Summit via the Twitter hashtag #NMSNEvents. The Summit is presented by the National Military Spouse Network (NMSN) and will be held Friday, November 4, in Fairfax, VA.

ClearedJobs.Net CMO Kathleen Smith will present “Leveraging the Internet and Social Media in Your Job Search.” The presentation discusses the changes in the job search landscape with the advent of social media tools such as LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter. It includes many practical tools and steps military spouses can implement immediately to assist their job search or promote their business interests. 

Smith says, “I’m humbled by the courage, skills and tenacity of military…