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Maryland Iraq/Afghanistan Veterans

Wednesday, May 9, 2012

Maryland Vets: Jobs Wanted

First Person: Five Tips from a Veteran Who Got A Job

‘I called in every favor, pulled every thread I could find.’

In September 2008, two things happened: The world economy collapsed, and I was looking for a job. Since I was leaving the Navy, I used a “military career transition service,” which helps you with interview preparation, resume writing and culminates in a one-day/10-interview extravaganza. From those 10 initial interviews, I received nine “call-backs,” or second interviews; I turned down seven of them. This was not a smart decision. In retrospect, my standards were too high, my self-regard a bit … overly optimistic. I also had no plan beyond this one day of interviews. I figured with 10 companies, I had to find something. I was wrong. By the time I went for the two second interviews I chose to pursue, companies were literally instituting …

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12:12 pm on Saturday, November 3, 2012

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Monday, May 7, 2012

Maryland Vets: Jobs Wanted

Vets Back From War Face Shocking Reality

“If it weren’t for my daughter … I’d be one of those guys on the corner with a sign”—Maryland veteran.

When Andrew Smith III talked with his U.S. Marine Corps platoon mates in Iraq before he returned to Maryland in 2009, he recalled they agreed finding a job in a recession would be tough. But he said he never imagined it would be like this. Smith said he sleeps four hours a night to make time for his part-time job loading baggage for Delta Airlines, training classes in the afternoons and searching for a full-time job with benefits to support his wife and two kids without relying on food stamps and other assistance. But last week, during a job fair organized by the Maryland Department of Transportation for veterans in Baltimore, he was almost optimistic. “For a while, we as veterans feel like we were forgotten about,” said Smith, 29, of …

Escariot

12:49 pm on Tuesday, June 5, 2012

Parkville honey, i respectfully disagree with that post of yours blaming congress and not the president. It was the president that pushed the obamacare bill through a congress that willfully and gleefully obliged. I work in healthcare. Right now hospitals all over the country will be dumping jobs before July, the beginning of a new fiscal year. Why? Because obamacare has taxes written into it …   more ›

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