How to enhance your job search

Announcement from VET NET Plymouth MA. Steps that unemployed Vets & Vet net Plymouth group members should take to enhance their job search efforts!

By working with ME and the steering committee members we can develop the following:

1. Identify your entire skill set! Translate your skill set into wanted job targets!

2. Create your job matching profile in MOSES (Massachusetts One Stop Employment System) membership account.

3. Create an MJQ (Mass Job Quest)/mass job bank account. Complete your profile. Make dispositions happen on the offered job orders (Yes or Not Interested) check these job orders out each day as part of your normal job search activity.

4. Create job target activity by utilizing job titles, key words & key word phrases through job alerts set up in indeed.com & simplyhired.com. These alerts can be delivered into your E-mail inbox each day.

5. Go through the multitude of General e-mail traffic sent to you each day BY ME to see if there may be a golden nugget that you may be qualified & interested in.

6. Now that you have all this job target activity coming in you want to make sure that you have created a GOOD BASE LINE RESUME that you can modify when applying for the positions you are interested in. Also, to have a good working knowledge of how to put together great cover letters that capture the reader's attention! You should be utilizing the key words & phrases throughout your resume and especially in cover letters. Prospective employers read more when they see a mirror image of the skills and traits they want. It is highly suggested that you attend Resume & Cover Letter, Resume Critique and Resume Review workshops at the Plymouth Career Center. Also, a great resource that we have in our geographical area is "One Life at a Time" www.1lifeatatime.org, a FREE resource based in Rockland that delivers these services too. they do great work in a very efficient manner!

7. Create a free linkedin.com account. This outstanding virtual networking tool will provide you with a tremendous amount of new networking connections. The Plymouth Career Center offers it's Veterans the team up job search workshop each and every Monday for 2 1/2 hours which covers both your MJQ (Mass Job Quest) and LinkedIn accounts. We assist you in completing your profiles and how to navigate in both. We offer a Beginners and Advanced workshop for LinkedIn as well.

8. We also offer "Sell Yourself" workshops every Tuesday for 2 1/2 hours. This 4 part series is taught by a professional sales trainer. you will develop your 30 second commercial plus your confidence level in creating appointments through cold calling, talking with hr professionals, staffing recruiters and, hiring managers will grow exponentially after attending this series.

9. Attending the Veterans networking group workshop each month will expand your networking connections by allowing you to utilize your 30 second commercial with other vets, your natural allies. This evolution will develop a camaraderie long since lost from your active duty days! This togetherness in these workshops has been a great incubator for networking! Everyone is looking out

(Posted 7/1/11)

Whisky Whisky Golf

A Night of Spirited Music to Benefit the Wounded Warriors Program sponsored by Cape Cod Veterans Performed by musicians Dave Wilson, Rick Lemont and Terry Clen. Donations will be accepted and all proceeds will support the Wounded Warriors Weekend to be held on Cape Cod in the summer of 2011. Schedule to be announced

Other surprise guests will also participate.

(Posted 7/1/11)

New Benefits

For all the new info, visit www.military.com/Benefits

New VA Web site eBenefits.

(Posted 7/1/11)

Post 9/11 Benefits

Transfer of Post-9/11 GI Bill Benefits to Dependents (TEB)

For the first time in history, service members enrolled in the Post-9/11 GI Bill program will be able to transfer unused educational benefits to their spouses or children starting Aug. 1, 2009.

(Posted 7/1/11)

Suicide Hotline

To ensure Veterans with emotional crises have round-the-clock access to trained professionals, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has begun operation of a national suicide prevention hot line for Veterans. Visit The Website.

(Posted 7/1/11)

Akaka Benefits Expansion

Akaka Seeking Expansion Of Agent Orange Benefits For Vets’ Children. The digital edition of the Army Times (12/20, 104K) says US Sen. Daniel Akaka (D-HI), chairman of the Senate veterans Affairs Committee, “Wants to expand benefits eligibility for spinal bifida victims who are children of veterans exposed to…Agent Orange,” a herbicide that was “widely used in Vietnam.” While current law “covers children of veterans who were in Vietnam or near the Demilitarized Zone in Korea during the Vietnam War,” Akaka “introduced a bill, S 3953, that would add veterans who worked on Air Force bases in Thailand during the Vietnam War because Agent Orange was handled at those installations

(Posted 7/1/11)