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We place candidates in a large number of areas, but the majority of areas that we place people
in are engineering, logistics, training, ICT, and project, and general management. That
covers around 80 percent of the trades in the military. I would also come back to the
point about personality traits. It's critical that you recognize the personal skills that
you have and the capabilities you have as well as the trade skills because they are
critical to the modern day employer. Fifty percent of it is about skill. The other 50
percent is about your attitude. If you've got a good attitude, it absolutely doubles
your chance of finding work.
The military has gotten much better at recognizing civilian qualifications over the last ten
years and that's played no small part to the defense training review on the findings from
that. If we look back 15 years ago, we were having service leavers coming out with military
recognized qualifications such as A-1, B-2, which means a lot to the M.O.D. That actually
means nothing in service stream. In the defense training review off the back of that, we were
able to find 70 to 80 percent of the courses that were covered in the military were actually
part of the civilian equivalent qualifications. So know the differences that we get candidates
leaving the military with civilian recognized qualifications and vocational and non-vocational
qualifications as well as professional qualifications and again that makes quite a difference when
you're looking for work.
Your C.V. is a benefits selling tool and there are four ways that you can convince an employer
to see you. The first way is you can show an employer how you can make them money. The
second way, show an employer how you can save them money. The third, is show them how you
can save them time and the fourth is lead a team to do any one of the above. When you're
listing your key achievements they must, must have one of those four.
You should follow advice from more than one source and not one single person is right
when it comes to being a service leaver on looking at your career. Take all the advice
on board, all the advice from Forces Recruitment Services, from the Career Transition Partnership,
from JobSite, and from every other source you can get your hands on. Do your research
and be as well prepared as you possibly can be, but then you can make an informed decision
about your career path.