MilitaryJobHunts.com Introduces The Job Hunt Launch Service as the Answer To Speedy Military Career Transitions

Comprehensive, Low Cost, High Quality Service Expedites Job Search for Enlisted, Military Retiree, First Time, or Hard-to-Place Career Transitioning Veterans.

Libertyville, IL (PRWEB) January 30, 2005 -- MilitaryJobHunts.com, the leading competitive counseling and job hunt assistance provider for military veterans in a career transition, today announced the introduction of its Job Hunt Launch Service. This service is a comprehensive, low cost, high quality, job hunt service that provides the job-seeking military veteran with the documents, information and step-by-step strategy plans to launch an efficient and productive career transition.

Education and certifications are always a major concern to transitioners as well as communicating military skills in a clear, persuasive manner. Credentials and communication are in themselves two mountains to climb for the transitioning military veteran. But military transitioners must struggle with yet another--job market competition.

Despite having education and a great resume, these alone do not guarantee an easy, quick career transition. Job market competition can impede the progress of a successful job hunt. Intense job competition is the wild card of speedy career transitions, especially when using online jobs websites, the most difficult way to find a job for most people despite their growing popularity in the employee acquistion strategies of most companies.

To have a speedy career transition, military career transitioners must learn how to position themselves in the jobs market to reduce their competition and enhance their "competitive sell" to improve their hiring appeal.

Being a competitive counseling service, MilitaryJobHunts.com offers personalized, low cost assistance for military job hunters that ensures a military transitioner is conducting a competitive job hunt.

"Our typical client is the hard-to-place, beginner or serial job hunter who has been looking for over 4 months. Through our experience, we have found that military career transitions have less to do with skill gaps or resume quality, than waging a competitive job hunt campaign," says Randall Scasny, Director of MilitaryJobHunts.com. "In response, we have developed a service, The Job Hunt Launch Service, which has been effective at getting long-term job hunters on track again."

What Is The Job Hunt Launch Service?
The Job Hunt Launch Service is a comprehensive approach to starting military transition job hunts. The service includes:

1. A competitive job skills analysis relative to current industry needs.
2. Re-directing military-focused resumes to industry-targeted, database searchable, "deep" resumes.
3. Writing industry-targeted, persuasive cover letters that emphasize the transitioner's "competitive sell."
4. Identifying a job hunter's most competitive industry sectors of employment.
5. Providing job hunters with contextual business intelligence on the job hunter's competitive industry sectors of employment.
6. Providing target company lists where a job hunter would be competitive.
6. Developing a step-by-step job hunt strategy plan including the 15 known methods of job hunting.
7. Assisting the job hunter in navigating the online job hunting venue.
8. Providing email support for 4-6 weeks using the "buddy system" approach.

Who Would Benefit from the Job Hunt Launch Service?
Obtaining personalized, high quality transition assistance is expensive. Typically, this type of assistance is available only to executive-level transitioners while middle-level and entry-level career transitioners tend to be priced out of the market. The Job Hunt Launch Service changes that. It offers a low cost, high quality job assistance service directed to military transitioners of any skills level.

"Most of our customers are enlisted service members, with the vast majority being new retirees," says Scasny. "They are bright people who have good resumes and credentials yet lack the necessary business information to target an industry and measure their competitiveness. The Job Hunt Launch service provides this information to them and a step-by-step plan on how to wage a competitive job hunt."

What Makes The Job Hunt Launch Service Different From Other Transition Assistance Services?

Why should a transitioner subscribe to The Job Hunt Launch Service if they are already using resume writing, career counseling, and recruiting and placement services?

Resume writing services, career counseling and recruiting services do not answer the needs of the chronic, long-term military job hunter. Competitive counseling does.

"What long-term job hunters need is a service that teaches them about the industry they wish to enter, where they need to market (and not market) themselves to improve their competitive position within it, and how to strategize a job hunt campaign so they have a "performing" job hunt, that is, they are getting called for job interviews," says Scasny.

But the most important difference between The Job Hunt Launch Service and other transition assistance services is whom MilitaryJobHunts.com employs to help the transitioning military veteran.

Most transition assistance is provided by recruiters or professional job counselors. While these professionals are effective at resume development and possess the knowledge of job assistance services available to veterans, this group lacks the knowledge base to perform competitive job hunt analyses.

To perform a competitive analysis, a different kind of "job counselor" is needed. A counselor who is an expert at industry-based knowledge, including the companies within an industry, industry trends, current products, geographic business hubs, and an industry's business drivers.

"The most unique part of our service is whom we employ to perform the work: business reporters and editors who have broad-based, multi-industry knowledge and experience. They apply the investigative skills of business journalism to competitive counseling," says Scasny.

MilitaryJobHunts.com's reporter-consultants first determine which industries a military job hunter would be competitive in. Then they provide job hunters details about their target industry (or sub-sector of a major industry) to give them a business context that forms the basis of competitive positioning. Once military job hunters understand the industry they are seeking employment in, the reporter-consultants localize the transitioners' job hunts by forming a practical job hunt strategy, including all the known methods of job hunting (there are 15 of them) for their geographical home.

"We become our customers' 'buddies' for 4-6 weeks, giving them email support until their job hunts are productive. Frequently, they are getting calls for interviews by the time we end our email support," says Scasny.

How Much Does The Job Hunt Launch Service Cost?
The most attractive feature of the service is the modest price. Most services of this nature have a high-price tag. These high-priced services are simply out of the reach of most enlisted career transitioners. Even officers pursuing management positions who can afford the fat fee tend to experience "sticker shock" and weigh the real advantages of such a service before putting their money down.

This all adds up to one thing: military job hunters are not getting the help they need. The Job Hunt Launch Service changes that.

There are two levels of pricing for The Job Hunt Launch Service.

**Individual Level: Individuals can subscribe to The Job Hunt Launch service for a flat fee of $199.

**Affiliate Level: For those organizations who would like to add competitive counseling to their arsenal of job hunter support services, MilitaryJobHunts.com offers an affiliate partnership contract that includes:

1. All features of the individual level are included in the affiliate level. (However, the affiliate level emphasizes the "Train the Trainer" concept of assistance.)
2. Two annual on-site visits to your location to conduct staff or job hunter training on How To Conduct a Competitive Job Hunt.
3. Regular Industry Update Specification Reports (IUSRs) that summarize industry trends, markets and noteworthy competitive factors for military job hunters.
4. Daily email or telephone support to provide coaching and job hunt "troubleshooting" services.

The Affiliate Program cost is a flat rate of $5,500 per year. (This is equal to about 26 individual subscriber fees, making it a cost-effective way to enhance a medium-to-large transition assistance office's palette of services.)

About MilitaryJobHunts.com
Headquartered in Libertyville, IL, MilitaryJobHunts.com enables military veterans to succeed by providing them with specialized, reliable, timely and relevant career-transition information emphasizing competitive analysis. For more information, visit http://www.militaryjobhunts.com, email info@militaryjobhunts.com, or call 847-668-2576.

About Randall Scasny
Mr. Scasny is Founder and Director of MilitaryJobHunts.com. He also writes a monthly job advice column for MilitaryHire.com, a job search and resume posting website for military veterans.

Previously, Mr. Scasny was employed in the Internet Industry where he was the Managing Editor of the Chicago News Bureau for InternetNews.com. He also was the Technical Editor of Appliance magazine, where he directed the editorial coverage of the publication's engineering section.

Prior to his writing career, Mr. Scasny was a Regional Field Service Representative for Square D Company where he serviced emergency power supply systems for a variety of computer and industrial applications. He began his civilian employment at Eaton Corporation's Electric Drives Division as a Field Service Engineer where he provided client services for a line of pulse-width modulated, adjustable-frequency motor controls and eddy-current control systems.

Mr. Scasny was a First Class Petty Officer in the U.S. Navy when he was honorably discharged in 1987, after 10 years of service. During that period of time, he was a Technical Instructor at the Advanced Electronics "C" School of the Great Lakes Naval Training Center, a Work Center Supervisor aboard the U.S.S. Manitowoc (LST 1180) and U.S.S. Inflict (MSO-456), and a Repair Technician on the U.S.S. Yosemite (AD-19).

SOURCE MilitaryJobHunts.com
Web Site: http://www.militaryjobhunts.com

contact: Randall Scasny director@militaryjobhunts.com or (847) 668-2576

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