The functional skills resume is the often times the best resume to use when transitioning from the military. It will allow you to highlight your SKILLS and not your actual duty billet or job title. Many of my clients do not want to do what they did in the military when they leave. They want to start over and do something new.

My guest this week is Richard S. Deems the author of Make Job Loss Work for You: Get over it and get your career back on track. This interview is packed with specific nuggets of information that will have your revamping your resume after you listen to this episode. Richard also share great tips on how to explore a new career and decide if it is something you want to try instead of blindly trying it and finding out you don’t like the job.

You have five seconds to get your resume noticed. The functional skills resume will sell you so that when the phone rings for the interview all that is left is the salary negotiation.