BOOK REVIEW: Job Search: Marketing Your Military Experience

BOOK REVIEW: Job Search: Marketing Your Military Experience (Job Search) (Paperback)

by Joe Breen, Colonel, USAF (Ret.)

I was very fortunate when I made the decision to depart the service–I had access to Dave Henderson’s original edition of "Job Search: Marketing Your Military Experience." I did have multiple skills and considerable experience but very little idea just how to identify and package them, and how they should or could apply to my new life as a civilian.
Dave Henderson’s clear, logical, and carefully tailored advice was the best tool in my own transition from an Air Force career to a satisfying and very rewarding civilian career. I have followed his updates carefully. They were all good, but Edition 3 is the best. Henderson has kept tuned to the times.

If you were going to limit yourself to one source, which you really should not-edition 3 of "Job Search: Marketing Your Military Experience" would be the one to choose. The material is well organized, easy to follow and is very careful to avoid the "one size fits all approach." The advice, well grounded in years of experience and highly tuned to today’s job market, is individually tailored to meet needs ranging from a young NCO leaving the service after one hitch, to a senior officer with decades of experience.

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The latest tools of the trade are employed-such as recognizing and harnessing the increasing utility of the internet both in researching future employers and in advertising your own skills and experience to a wider range of potential employers. There are plenty of solid examples clarifying the entire career transition process–from the early steps identifying your personal skills and interests, through the difficult and tedious, but critical, resume development phase–to the final stages of salary and benefit negotiation. Every step is a vital one, and this book offers a clear, concise, readable and well-researched blueprint toward your future. You can get there from here, and this book is a proven way to do it!

Now in its fourth edition, this highly popular guide to a successful job search offers the separating servicemember the most up-to-date information on planning a smooth transition (and translation) of military experience to well-paying civilian jobs. Includes experience assessment, job market, resume writing, interviewing tips, and benefits and salary negotiations as well as over 40 examples of successful resume types.

About the Author
David G. Henderson was a career Marine, who later headed a personnel agency specializing in placement of servicemembers in civilian jobs.