Job Seekers
Working With Your Career Specialist
Building a Strong Partnership for a Successful Job Search
Let's work together to get you hired!
A successful job search is built on a strong, collaborative relationship between the candidate and their Career Specialist. Each step in the process is designed to meet candidates where they are, provide personalized guidance, and equip them with the tools needed to confidently pursue new opportunities.
1. Welcome Questionnaire: Setting the Foundation
The journey begins with a welcome questionnaire. This helps the Career Specialist understand:
• The candidate’s background and goals
• Where they currently are in their job search
• What support they need most
This step ensures expectations are clear and creates a shared understanding of how you’ll work together.
2. Phone Consultation: Creating a Game Plan
Next comes a personalized phone consultation. This conversation allows the Career Specialist to build a tailored strategy, which may include:
• Reviewing and refining the resume
• Rewording or strengthening key verbiage
• Translating military experience into civilian language
• Reviewing or optimizing the LinkedIn profile
• Identifying training or upskilling opportunities
• Highlighting both hard and soft skills
This is where the roadmap for the candidate’s job search truly takes shape.
3. Resume Revisions: Crafting a Strong Master Resume
After the consultation, the Career Specialist works with the candidate to create a polished master resume. This involves:
• Drafting and revising resume versions
• Ensuring alignment with job requirements
• Highlighting relevant experience and skills
• Preparing a strong base resume that can be tailored for each application
Because companies increasingly require tailored resumes, this collaborative process is essential. Candidates must understand expectations and stay engaged to ensure accuracy and alignment.
4. Ongoing Collaboration: Staying Connected
The job search is dynamic, and communication is key. Candidates should:
• Stay in touch with their Career Specialist
• Share updates on applications and interviews
• Ask questions when unsure
• Continue learning about the job market and opportunities
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HOT JOBS
This is a small sample of positions that companies are looking to fill immediately.
Updated On: April 20, 2025
Personal Finance Counselor
Fort Sill, OK
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree required.
- May consider applicants with an associate degree plus 4 years’ experience in lieu of bachelor’s degree.
- May consider applicants with a high school diploma plus 6 years’ experience in lieu of a bachelor’s degree.
- 3+ years of financial counseling experience.
- Must be a U.S. citizen and speak fluent English.
- If required by the contract, must be bilingual in English and Spanish.
- Be able to obtain a favorably adjudicated Tier 2 investigation.
- Must be able to pass the Congressionally Mandated Disclosures for Organizational Conflicts of Interest (OCI) process.
- Must have one of the following certifications: Accredited Financial Counselor (AFC), Certified Financial Planner (CFP), or Chartered Financial Consultant (ChFC).
Personal Finance Counselor
Fort Lauderdale, FL
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree required.
- May consider applicants with an associate degree plus 4 years’ experience in lieu of bachelor’s degree.
- May consider applicants with a high school diploma plus 6 years’ experience in lieu of a bachelor’s degree.
- 3+ years of financial counseling experience.
- Must be a U.S. citizen and speak fluent English.
- If required by the contract, must be bilingual in English and Spanish.
- Be able to obtain a favorably adjudicated Tier 2 investigation.
- Must be able to pass the Congressionally Mandated Disclosures for Organizational Conflicts of Interest (OCI) process.
- Must have one of the following certifications: Accredited Financial Counselor (AFC), Certified Financial Planner (CFP), or Chartered Financial Consultant (ChFC).
Military & Family Life Counselor
Columbia, SC
Minimum Qualifications:
- Master’s Degree from an accredited graduate program in a mental health related field, or social work.
- With short notice, willing to accept assignments of undefined periods to include weekends.
- Can cover, on a full-time basis, assignments of varying length from a weekend to two weeks.
- Quickly builds rapport with service personnel clients, family members, students, parents and co-workers.
- Adaptable to new working conditions, varying location rules, etc.; adjusts working style to align with each work environment.
- Able to work effectively with minimal instruction and guidance.
- Listens carefully to instructions provided.
- With minimal notice, participates in regular in-services/training, Quality Improvement committees or other contract activities as assigned.
- Requires ability to quickly engage and communicate with military members, spouses or children as assigned, in order to accomplish job functions, and to respond quickly to emergent situations in any physical location on a military installation and/or within a school setting, which includes the need to traverse short and/or long distances within the base to both indoor and outdoor locations, to maneuver through rugged, outdoor or uneven locations (e.g., steep inclines, stairs, grass), and work in outdoor weather and other military base conditions. Due to the nature of working on military installations or related worksites, counselors may need to comply with various site-specific requirements to work at designated locations. For example, for some assignments, counselors will need to have certain current immunizations or vaccinations and provide record of receipt.
- Ability to prove US Citizenship and must be fluent in English.
- Advanced knowledge of brief therapy and solution-focused counseling methods.
- Prior military service/military family member and/or strong familiarity with military culture desired.
- For CYB positions must meet the Magellan MFLC CYB criteria for experience with children and youth and specialty in child and adolescent development/psychology.
- Creates a presence on the installation in which the service and family members feel comfortable approaching the counselor and recognize the program to be confidential; for CYB counselors — creates a presence in child and youth settings, is available to children, youth, and staff. When working with children, counselor must abide by line of site protocol.
- Establishes and maintains working relationships with community resources and provides appropriate linkages.
- Partners with POC to provide Adult and CYB services in a manner that addresses the needs of the installation/facility. Develops an excellent working relationship with the installation/facility POC.
- Manages duty to warn and restricted reporting situations according to DoD protocol and staffs the cases with Regional Supervisor/Regional Director.
- Communicates with Regional Supervisors and participate in regular individual and group supervision, sharing information regarding trends and issues on the installations and in facilities to which they are assigned for substitute or on call services.
- Responds to critical incidents and special requests as directed by the POC and approved by the OSD program manager.
Automotive Customer Service Representative (Spanish Bilingual)
Remote
Minimum Qualifications:
- High School Diploma or equivalent.
- Minimum of 6 months of customer service experience.
- Must be 18 years of age or older.
- Ability to type at least 25 words per minute.
- Comfortable with desktop computer systems and have general knowledge of Windows-based systems.
- Customer service and/or sales experience preferred.
- College degree preferred but not required.
- Spanish/English Bilingual Required!
Warehouse Security Ambassador
Macon, GA
Minimum Qualifications:
- Be authorized to work in the U.S.
- Be able to provide documentation of High School Diploma or GED
- Be 21 years or older
- Valid driver’s license is required
- Be able to meet GardaWorld’s driving requirements
- Be able to ace (and pass) an extensive screening process
- Exceptional customer service skills
- Proficient in basic phone & computer skills
- If you have Security, Military, Law Enforcement experience – even better!
- You have a state license if required






