By: Jaime Chapman, Founder & CEO of Begin Within & Ana Levan, Director of Marketing at Premier Talent Partners Consider Hiring a U.S. Military Spouse Hiring U.S. military spouses is good for business. Military spouses are scrappy, diverse, and highly...
Totally ignore the resume of a military spouse. Military spouses come in all forms. You may see a hot off the press 18 year old newlywed who has never had a "real job", all the way through industry leading professionals who've been in the workforce for several...
Being a "dependent" is the worst. Military spouses get a bad rap for being "dependas" and mooching off their service member. I am a fiercely independent woman and being called a "dependent" makes me vomit in my mouth every time I hear the word. This week, I discovered...
A little bit of grit, and a whole lotta love. Military spouses are just that... spouses. Military spouses all have something in common, they married a service member. Many people say, "You knew what you were getting into when you married a soldier." HECK NO! Not true....
Over 90% of military spouses are women. According to the White House's Military Spouse Demographics and Employment Information publication, "92% of Active Duty spouses are female". This publication also states that: "Female military spouses earn, on average, 25% less...
AIM 2.0 The Army has released AIM (Assignment Interactive Module) 2.0 as a new way of managing its number one asset…people. AIM is a new Talent Management system that brings the Army’s talent...
The DIY resume process — creating tricky documents for applicants to write with outdated rumors about style and page length that clash with modern-day technology. If you’ve been...
Over 90% of companies use Applicant Tracking Software (ATS) to screen resumes due to large candidate pools. It is estimated that 70% of resumes remain unseen by recruiters — mainly due to the...
The application process can be a long and arduous process. You may find yourself on auto-pilot, scanning through job advertisements, sending one general resume to any job ad that sounds remotely...
Start with a resume template. The worst resume writing mistake you can make is to start with a blank page and “figure out” the formatting on your own. There are TONS of places online where you can...
Begin Within places U.S. military spouses in “careers” and not “jobs”. We provide staffing services to employers who want to hire military spouses to join their team. We also provide consulting services to companies who want to learn how to hire, retain, and promote military spouses without reliance on external staffing agencies. We were proudly voted the “#1 Military Spouse Owned Business Overall” in 2019, and we work tirelessly to help milspouses attain long-term careers.