Posted on Dec 9, 2015

Is there a website that you can just type in your MOS and it brings up related civilian jobs?

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SGT Ben Keen

Posted 9 y ago

There are several of them actually.

This one is from military.com and is pretty good. If this one doesn't work for you, please let me know and I'll send more over when I'm home later today.

http://www.military.com/veteran-jobs/skills-translator/

Military Skills Translator | Military.com

Military Skills Translator - Apply for jobs that match your skills, identify civilian terminology for your resume, hot career options for your specialty.

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SPC Bill Livingston

9 y

I wish I'd have had access to stuff like this when I got out, but that was pre-Internet, lol.

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SPC Dennis Yaste

9 y

SGT Ben Keen - The website isn't up. I'd like to have a look at that PDF.

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SGT Ben Keen

9 y

SPC Dennis Yaste - send me a direct message with your email address I'll kick it over in the morning.

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PFC Sam Chan

9 y

Yes works great! Thanks!

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CPT (Join to see)

Posted 9 y ago

What a lot of service members fail to recognize in the transition is that their resume needs to be corporate friendly. So. When you are writing your resume and using these job translators, take the information and go a step further. Write your military experience so it looks like corporate experience. Because that is what your competing against. Kids that never served but have 4-6 years in corporate America ahead of you. And recruiters and hiring managers can't understand how a fire team leader or squad leader or comms specialist applies to the job they have posted. It's a bit painful, but it's important.

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SGM (Join to see)

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Thanks for beating me to that answer, Sir. I do not undervalue the work that enlisted servicemen do, especially since I was one. But I can't count the number of, for example, 25Bs (Computer Administrator) who think that they can get a 6-figure salary as a System Administrator on the outside. Unlikely, although it is possible, providing you can demonstrate that you know more than how to change Windows passwords, are willing to deploy, have a college degree, have an ACTIVE security clearance, or something else that the hiring manager needs.

What good MOS-translations sites do mostly is help you convert military terminology into civilian, so you have a chance to convince a hiring manager you are worth spending an interview on. Remember, on average hiring managers get 150 resume's for every open position. Just putting "Squad Leader" on your resume' isn't going to get you an interview.

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