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I am getting out of the CG with one of the harder quals to get, Small Arms Instructor. I would love to parlay this into another job of some sort. Rrail gave some good links in the ex-contractor thread but he mentioned I ought to ask here too. Any advice getting a job and leveraging my experience as a LEO and Small Arms Instructor, and not getting hosed with my lack of 'time shooting at actual people in a combat zone'?
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| # ¿ Aug 4, 2011 15:10 |
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I mean I'll go to Iraq, might be interesting... And yeah, D&D loves me.
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| # ¿ Aug 4, 2011 18:28 |
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What can you guys tell me about resumes for this sort of thing? Does experience speak for itself, or does a solid resume help a ton?
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| # ¿ Aug 5, 2011 02:39 |
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Are there recruiters for contractor jobs? Like if I was a computer network guy I could find a recruiter who would find jobs / create jobs/ etc. considering there's such a process with these sorts of jobs, do recruiters exist?
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| # ¿ Aug 5, 2011 14:51 |
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That's the sort of thing I hope will play into my resume. I hope my Small Arms Instructor abilities outweigh my lack of 'sandbox time', persay. ReverendCode, any insights you have would be greatly appreciated.
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| # ¿ Aug 8, 2011 08:09 |
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Would any of you be ok sending.me a copy of the resume you guys used to find these jobs? Even personal info redacted it would help me I think.
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| # ¿ Aug 8, 2011 22:41 |
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Elendil at dangerbearing dot com
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| # ¿ Aug 9, 2011 00:17 |
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What kinds of references did you guys compile, or did you let your DD-213 do the talking?
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| # ¿ Aug 9, 2011 15:03 |
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If any of you HSLD types want to look over my resume I would appreciate input, PM me your e-mail. Also if anyone can/wants to pass it along on some backchannels, that's cool too. I am primarily trying to pimp myself as a primer firearms instructor/LEO.
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| # ¿ Sep 15, 2011 22:53 |
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Rrail posted:My criticism of cargo shorts wasn't about professionalism (really?), but more about fashion sense you goony fucks. If you wanted to be 'professional' you would wear a kit and ninja gear all the time and make sure you told everyone that your finger was your safety.
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| # ¿ Sep 19, 2011 13:36 |
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Ok so I'm looking at some of these contracting company websites....I don't want to fill out a 15 page form that is just copy and pasting my resume into it. Should I just find a recruiters e-mail and send them my resume? This is stupid and half of it doesn't apply to me.
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| # ¿ Sep 19, 2011 15:25 |
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ReverendCode posted:I got my job by just emailing recruiting with a cover letter and attaching a copy of my resume, an hour later I was signing my offer letter. So that is probably a good place to start. Where did you find e-mails for recruiters? The 'contact us' sections of the companies I've looked at just say 'fill out this stupid long form first!' Hell If any of you guys still have your recruiters info, i'll give them my business 
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| # ¿ Sep 19, 2011 18:28 |
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I will give any goon referral I can I just want the drat e-mails.
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| # ¿ Sep 20, 2011 12:19 |
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Rrail posted:Click the link the Washington post article and then hit the little deal that shows a map. You can find emergency management/counterterrorism/fusion centers in places outside of DC. I just found a few in the Seattle area I could probably go to work for, had no idea they existed previously. Pretty cool for those of us that don't want to live in DC or Tampa. Am I blind, I don't see a map anywhere
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| # ¿ Sep 25, 2011 15:03 |
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I emailed our some resumes last week and haven't heard anything, whats good practice for hounding these folks via phone?
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| # ¿ Sep 26, 2011 16:28 |
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Rrail posted:Do it all the time because they are lazy. In most cases i just filled out the webforms and whatnot, who should I be asking for? Is there a term like recruiter, or hiring manager, etc?
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| # ¿ Sep 26, 2011 19:37 |
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How'd you score the title, bro?
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| # ¿ Sep 26, 2011 20:40 |
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If I sign a COL, all that says is yeah I'd like to work there. If another company comes along with a better offer I can do that until I actually get 'employed' right?
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| # ¿ Sep 27, 2011 04:28 |
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Drudge_Skeletons posted:i shoulda never had faith to begin with, ur right. Blackwater needs to change it's name to Xe and then again to something innocuous because they are an organization of pure evil. if these ruthless morons weren't in Iraq, there would have been 1/2 the civilian deaths. anytime i hear the US is going to use MOTHERFUCKING MERC ARMIES INSTEAD OF THE GODDAMN US ARMED FORCES I WANT TO RIP MY loving HEAD OFF let's give lots more tax money to companies like these so they can keep loving the american people up the rear end. Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?
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| # ¿ Sep 27, 2011 04:48 |
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Go range in D&D dude, not here. This is not the place to rage again the machine...this is a place to get a job as part of the machine.
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| # ¿ Sep 27, 2011 04:56 |
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Drudge_Skeletons posted:why are you a blackwater exec? I wish!
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| # ¿ Sep 27, 2011 05:24 |
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Rrail posted:Hey Drudge or w/e take it to GBS where people may actually give a poo poo about your childlike worldview. I don't. Yo answer my question, it pertains directly to you. Edit:sweet. It's your company, if anything you should stress that referral cheddar
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| # ¿ Sep 27, 2011 05:36 |
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Rrail posted:And of course I am, because that money will pay for my apartment in Colombia for the month I'm there! You are a hero, don't let any LOLBERALS tell you otherwise. Yeah I believe so. Still lots to do before I'm there though.
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| # ¿ Sep 27, 2011 05:43 |
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There is way, WAY too much paperwork to get on with one of these companies.
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| # ¿ Oct 28, 2011 19:56 |
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Apparently "something" came up in my background...i hope they can tell me what it is and let me address it. My BIO and all what I considered the hard part went through ok, so reallllly wondering what wrench is in the works now.
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| # ¿ Nov 15, 2011 01:26 |
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No financial obligations that are outstanding. I have a mortgage and such but never missed a payment. I have a hard time believing it's a clearance issue as I just had one from another agency (USCG)
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| # ¿ Nov 15, 2011 07:30 |
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I would like to say that my experiance with Triple Canopy has been pretty awful. They waited until I had my entire package together, including paying out of pocket for doctors visits, to say 'oh the paperwork you gave us the FIRST DAY isn't good enough no thanks'. loving assholes.
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| # ¿ Nov 17, 2011 03:45 |
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| # ¿ May 19, 2013 17:22 |
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Rrail posted:Is it something that can be remedied? I made the mistake of not redacting my own DD-214 before sending it in, so no I'm boned with TC. Not real impressed with any of the other companies either.
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| # ¿ Nov 18, 2011 03:28 |
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