http://blog.jibberjobberusa.com Helping soldiers transition back into real jobs Mon, 05 Oct 2009 21:55:22 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en There are only 20 members of this social network, but I think it's cool how they are incorporating Twitter (and the "tweetup," which is a name derived from "meetup"). I hope they can get this off the ground, looks like fun networking stuff as well as a great cause... more info ... http://blog.jibberjobberusa.com/2009/10/05/tweetup-4-troops/ It's no secret that transitioning out of the military has its own issues... one of the issues that we (civilians who have never been on the inside :)) have is hearing your communication... the acronyms and terms that you are comfortable with just confuses us... we just don't get it. When ... http://blog.jibberjobberusa.com/2009/08/31/military-to-civilian-communication-issues-job-search/ If you are a member of the U.S. military, your post-service job search will be much different than any civilian’s. Even within the military, you have varying circumstances that may face you. Perhaps you’ve spent most of your adult life serving your country and an obligatory retirement looms on the horizon. ... http://blog.jibberjobberusa.com/2009/07/27/i%e2%80%99m-getting-out-of-the-military%e2%80%a6now-what/ I came across a blog post from HirePatriots.com (forwarded to me from a Facebook Friend) that was... well, not cool. The author of the post talks about a military career fair sponsored by the DoD where there were hardly any hiring companies and hardly any Marines (no supply, no demand).  FAIL. Want ... http://blog.jibberjobberusa.com/2009/07/24/hire-patriots-dot-com/ We're back.  Again. I know... last time didn't last too long.  Things are changing here... in addition to the offer to those coming out of deployment, we have some other, new stuff.  I'll talk about it soon... in the meantime, if you are or have been in the military please visit ... http://blog.jibberjobberusa.com/2009/07/23/the-military-job-search-jibberjobber/ Anita Bruzzese, who writes for a plethora of newspapers, has a great post titled Sometimes the Real Battle Begins When Vets Return Home and Try to Find a Job. I love how she ends the post (which was published in USA Today): "You learn so many valuable things in the ... http://blog.jibberjobberusa.com/2008/05/27/jibberjobberusa-recognized-by-anita-bruzzese/ I don't know of any who knows more about securing financial aid for education than Chris Penn.  Not only is he an expert in this space, he is one of the best networked social media experts around. Chris is a master of information dissemination, and put together a special podcast explaining ... http://blog.jibberjobberusa.com/2008/05/13/active-duty-military-education-benefits-by-chris-penn/ How cool is this?  I could go for a fly-fishing trip right about now.  Kudos to the team at Project Healing Waters.  This is straight from their website: Project Healing Waters Fly Fishing, Inc. is dedicated to the physical and emotional rehabilitation of disabled active duty military personnel and veterans through ... http://blog.jibberjobberusa.com/2008/04/26/project-healing-waters/ Seven months later... and we're back.  Here's a quick update. This is kind of embarrassing but it's the truth.  There was a point where we had to switch all of the JibberJobber stuff off of the GoDaddy servers (they were not serving us well, and our users were having problems).  In ... http://blog.jibberjobberusa.com/2008/04/17/were-back/ I thought they had a different name, but here is some info on an interesting career opportunity. I have lots of federal employees in my family, and even a cousin who is just finishing his career as a border patrol agent (or whatever they are called). Good steady ... http://blog.jibberjobberusa.com/2006/09/21/does-the-border-patrol-still-exist/