What did you find most challenging in your post-military job search?

My biggest barrier was initially mindset. I simply didn't fully understand how this new world worked. To some degree, I still struggle with it, and it's been a few years.

Not having civilian equavalant qualifications hurt my job prospects. I had no real idea of how to translate what I knew into language hiring managers would truly understand. TAP class was of litle to no help what-so-ever when it came to this, other than pointing me to O-Net. Even that was not all inclusive. It wasn't until I sat down with a hiring manager that was a 30 year Veteran that I could finally gain a little clarity.

I found the pace was a lot slower than military life....No real focus for the most part and if the task didn't get done that day oh well there's tomorrow.......Folks being late almost drove me nuts their concept of time management was horrible.

Translating military leadership skills to the civilian world