Transitioning from military service to civilian employment comes with new challenges, opportunities, and decisions. Search & Employ® provides veterans, transitioning service members, and military spouses with career advice, job search strategies, hiring insights, and professional resources designed to help navigate today’s competitive job market.
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Transitioning from military service can mean redefining your purpose and learning how your military experience translates into a civilian career. Army veteran Brooke Lazzarini shares how she turned her leadership, adaptability and commitment to service into a career in financial services, along with practical advice for veterans navigating their own job search.
Her story offers an important reminder for transitioning service members: your military skills have value, even when your next career looks completely different from your MOS.
See how leading employers are hiring veterans and discover career opportunities where your military experience can make an impact.
Get practical guidance to strengthen your job search, translate your military experience, and take the next step in your civilian career.
Get Tim Best’s perspective on veteran hiring, military-to-civilian transition, workforce trends, leadership, and the future of veteran employment.
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What finance and insurance careers are a good fit for veterans? Opportunities extend far beyond traditional finance roles, with military skills in leadership, logistics, cybersecurity, technology, operations and problem-solving translating to careers across the industry.
Explore finance and insurance jobs for veterans, in-demand career paths, certifications that can strengthen your civilian resume and the skills employers are looking for as you transition from military to civilian employment.
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See how veterans are turning military experience into careers with leading employers across a range of industries.
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What Skills Do Military Spouses Bring to the Workplace?
Military spouses bring adaptability, resilience, leadership, and problem-solving skills to civilian careers. Frequent moves, career transitions, and changing responsibilities build strengths that can make military spouses valuable employees and leaders.
Maris Cox shares how life as a military spouse shaped her career at CVS Health and why employers should recognize the experience, perspective, and professional value military spouses bring to the workplace.
Read Her StoryHow can you stay organized during your job search? A clear plan can help you stay focused and make the most of every opportunity.
Learn how to organize your resume, track applications, set career goals, prepare for interviews, and manage follow-ups throughout your job search.
AI hiring tools are helping employers connect veterans and military spouses with relevant jobs faster. Modern AI can recognize military experience, transferable skills, certifications, and security clearances beyond traditional job titles and keywords.
Stay Up to DateTwo military-connected professionals share how their service and experiences as a military spouse helped shape successful careers with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). Learn how military skills like leadership, adaptability, communication, and problem-solving can transfer to meaningful federal careers.
Explore Their StoriesExplore career opportunities in project management, administration, and operations. Learn how these disciplines drive organizational success, discover where your skills align and gain practical insights to help navigate your next career move.
From logistics and networking to translating military experience and building confidence in your transition, this issue offers practical guidance to help veterans move beyond obstacles and toward meaningful opportunities.
The adaptability, resilience, and mission-focused mindset you built in uniform are exactly what today’s job market needs. This issue helps you gain control of your job search by focusing on what you can build: your skills, your strategy, and your next move.