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To: ManyMoose who wrote (472911)	2/20/2012 2:30:11 PM
From: goldworldnet	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793917

That translation problem begins even before a veteran gets to the interview. The resume itself can be a jumble of military jargon, meaningless to most recruiters, unless the job seeker is careful to “civilianize” the job. A survey by the Society for Human Resource Management says 60 percent of recruiters found “translating military skills into civilian job experience” to be one of the challenges to hiring ex-military. There are others, as the researchers discovered. Forty-eight percent of the recruiters thought the transition from a military to a civilian workplace culture was a challenge to hiring veterans. So were mental health issues, said 46 percent of the survey respondents. From... Employers Think Vets Are Great. They Just Don’t Hire Them by John Zappe Nov 11, 2010, 3:43 am ET ere.net * * *