Military veterans can land a $100K+ job upon returning to civilian life — if they know how to translate their experiences for corporate hiring managers. Here are six tips to help vets make the transition:

1. “Civilianize” your resume.

While military veterans have developed many of the same senior-level capabilities as civilian workers, they often have a difficult time translating these skills on their resumes. For example, a veteran with a senior artillery role should avoid writing about weaponry and focus on the underlying achievements of his/her position. Highlight that you have led a very large team; managed, organized, and had oversight for large shipments of fragile inventory; and had experience with distribution, supply chain, inventory and logistics. These are all transferable skills. This is how the resume needs to be framed.

2. Talk the talk of the job you seek.

Do extensive research on the company and industry before going in for an interview for a senior-level position. If you can relate to the job on the employer’s terms, you’re in a much better position to tie your own experiences to the specific challenges the company faces.

3. Show how military success can translate in the corporate world.

For the jobseeker, interviews are about sharing your accomplishments. It’s important to be able to demonstrate how your military successes can meet a corporate employer’s needs. Your achievements should be quantitative in nature, as much as possible, and establish ways that you reduced costs, increased productivity, improved quality, and so forth. As you’re sharing your achievements, also be sure to let the employer know what kind of person your experiences have made you — someone who thrives under pressure, or has little tolerance for errors, for example. Every corporation needs people like this.

4. Don’t treat the interviewer like your commanding officer.

Leave out the ‘yes sirs’ and ‘no ma’ams.’ Avoid using military lingo — the jargon and acronyms — in both your resume and your job interview. And while it may be tempting to spend time discussing the juicy details of dangerous missions or exciting adventures, don’t do it unless you’re specifically asked. The interviewer may be entertained by your anecdotes — but these stories are also a reminder of the differences, rather than the similarities, between military and civilian work.

5. Don’t limit yourself.

Many times, military veterans are their own worst enemies in a job search. They think they have to find a job that is as close to what they did in the Army or Marines as possible. Veterans often apply for jobs in a single field, such as law enforcement or with defense contractors, because ‘they’re the only ones who will know where I’m coming from.’ These applicants are unnecessarily limiting themselves. The fact that you carried a gun or rode in a tank doesn’t define you. It’s simply the context in which you developed some very valuable skills — such as managing a large number of people, for example — often at a younger age than you would have had a chance in the civilian world.

6. Seek support.

Network with other military veterans who have successfully transitioned into senior-level positions in the corporate world. These people can be your most valuable resource — and can provide emotional support as well. On the Web, Miltary.com, RecruitMilitary.com and CivilianJobNews.com are all excellent resources.

Previously, we’ve offered advice for women professionals seeking to land their first $100K+ job. Today we take a look at six professions that are growing in popularity among women. While these career paths don’t all start at $100k+, they have the potential to exceed that level.

1. Forensic science

More women are becoming scientists, and they are choosing careers in criminal forensics labs rather than at university and corporate laboratories. In fact, the field is quickly becoming female-dominated. Two possible reasons for this: (1) women prefer the cooperative environment of a crime lab to the competitive culture of academic labs; and (2) the enormous popularity (and co-ed nature) of procedural crime dramas like CSI.

2. Pharmacist

With the pharmaceutical industry growing at a tremendous pace over the past two decades, pharmacists are in demand, highly paid — and increasingly, women. It takes time and dedication to become a pharmacist — six long years of training. But the reward is a salary starting at $100k+. As more baby boomers reach retirement age, the need for prescription drugs will inevitably increase, making pharmacist a secure career choice.

3. Market research

Market researchers rank among the 10 top-paying careers for women, with executives and senior managers at consulting firms bringing in six-figure salaries. Many women gravitate to market research because they believe it plays to their strengths — including attention to detail and the ability to relate to and communicate with others.

4. Public relations

While the newspaper industry is in rapid decline, opportunities in public relations are greater than ever — particularly for those who understand social media, including blogs, social networks and other new tools for accessing and sharing information online.

5. Graphic designers with Web expertise

Graphic design has long been a popular field for women; the key to staying in demand is adding new technical skills to boost your value. Those most in demand are experts in animation and video, because the Web is moving to become a video-based medium, and businesses as well as media outlets are scurrying to keep up with consumer demand for video content.

6. Videographers

Professional videographers who can shoot content for the Web are in high demand for the reason stated above: the Web is evolving to become a video-based medium. Companies will need professionals who can produce quality corporate videos.

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Since I’ve been a corporate executive for most of my career – often with very large companies – my former colleagues often ask me why I took the plunge and became an entrepreneur. “Why,” they want to know, “did you start RiseSmart?”

Once I explain to them what RiseSmart does, they understand immediately.

RiseSmart empowers six-figure managers and executives – people like my former co-workers, and perhaps like you – to take control of their careers. How? By helping them to find their next job, since they’re usually too busy with their current jobs to look for themselves.

I know this has been the case for me. Most of the jobs I’ve held have been challenging ones, the kind that demand significant focus and energy. For this reason, even though I knew I should always be on the lookout for my next career move, I never seemed to find the time to search – at least not in a systematic way.

In a very real sense, I was leaving my career to chance.

I’ve learned the hard way that this can be dangerous. I’ve stayed at companies too long and been caught up in downsizings. I’ve found out about dream opportunities – after the position was filled. I’ve wondered whether my single-minded dedication to the job at hand might be preventing me from planning wisely – without company blinders on — for my future.

RiseSmart solves these problems by taking the job-search burden off your hands. We assign you a RiseSmart Concierge, who takes your profile information and searches our real-time, million-job database to identify positions that are the best match for you.

We deliver these job openings to you on an ongoing basis. We also respond to your input, to ensure that the opportunities we tell you about are the ones you want to know about.

In the recruiting industry, candidates currently in jobs are known as “passive jobseekers.” The problem is, most are too passive. They wait for recruiters to call them, or a new job to fall into their lap, rather than taking a methodical, proactive approach.

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With all the talk of the economy being down and people worried about the job market, we thought we’d check our database of current openings in a number of functional areas, including IT, finance and accounting, marketing, legal, and human resources positions.

What we found is that, while the number of open positions is down from a few months ago, there are still hundreds of thousands of available positions in these areas. Specifically, the job counts are:

• IT Jobs: 245,000
• Finance and Accounting Jobs: 95,000
• Marketing Jobs: 68,000
• Human Resources: 23,500
• Legal Jobs: 15,000

That’s not a bad market for $100K+ jobs. Unfortunately, I think what happens is, we hear all the negativity about the economy, and then we go online to search and we get frustrated. Not because there are no good jobs online — but because the search process itself is so inefficient and time-consuming. It’s like searching for a needle in a haystack.

So we throw our hands up and say, “I’m never going to find a job anyway!”

Believe me, I’ve been there. And that’s why we created RiseSmart. Turn your online job search over to us, and let us put an end to your frustrations. Start your three-day free trial today.