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14 G.I. JOBS | APRIL 2017 | GIJOBS.COM GIJOBS.COM/ JOINTHERANKS Join the G.I. Jobs ranks to get job alerts, weekly guidance and a copy of our DigiMag sent to your email every month. EVERYTHING YOU NEED, DELIVERED RIGHT WHEN YOU NEED IT. Job Alerts Weekly Guidance TRANSITION G.I. RÉSUMÉ How not to turn off civilian recruiters with trite phrases. BY SHANE CHRISTOPHER JOE GIRARDI MANAGES the Yankees. Your financial advisor manages your retirement. After a long night on the town, you manage to get out of bed the next morning. Manage, manage, manage, manage, manage … say that five times fast and, like most words, it starts to sound foreign and unnecessary. A senior officer once told me that we manage programs and dollars, but we lead people. He was on to something. Management is important, mundane and necessary, but uninspiring. Management is a science. Leadership is an art. Science can be replicated. Art is differentiated. WHAT DO YOU MANAGE? If you're like most military résumé writers whose work I've read, you manage TOO MUCH! One single- page résumé I saw from a military transitioner contained the words "manage" or "manager" 27 times. Your résumé is your advertisement to get the interview. If you bore the recruiting manager with too many mundane words, your ad simply won't work. Other trite words to avoid in your résumé include "I," "personnel" and passive verbs (is, are, go, going … for instance, "I will work …" is better than "I am going to work …"). Everybody manages, especially in a work setting. And many of those management tasks are important to highlight on your résumé, but replace "managed" with more active, descriptive language, such as "directed," "supervised" or "demonstrated." Also include the number of dollars you managed and how many people you led. These details help recruiters compare your work experience with open positions in the company and with other people who may be competing for the job. In most cases, you've had more responsibility than civilian counterparts of the same age and experience, a testament to your time in the military. DO YOU MANAGE TOO MUCH?

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