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JDog’s Junk Removal & Hauling and JDog Carpet Cleaning & Floor Care franchise opportunities have proven to be recession resistant, after gaining 80 new franchise owners in 2020.

Inarguably, 2020 has been a challenging year. As the job market landscape changed due to the COVID-19 health crisis, we pivoted to help bring you the services that you needed, most notably in the form of virtual interview preparation, tips, and planning. Therefore, it is no surprise that the most popular posts from this year centered around helping transitioning military and veterans find careers in this challenging and changing environment.

For many in the workplace, the end of the year marks open enrollment, a season where employees can make changes to their elected benefits, including health insurance, retirement plans, and more. However, for many transitioning military professionals, this period may be confusing.

Mission Hire Me is serving transitioning veteran and military spouse job seekers by helping them to create visually engaging and professionally edited video profiles to use in their job applications and on social media.

With Halloween right around the corner, you may be starting to think about spooky movies, trick or treating, and things that go bump in the night. But there are some things you want to avoid, especially if you’re currently looking for a career. Here are some ways you can avoid job search nightmares this Halloween season.

With over 500 million users worldwide, LinkedIn is the most powerful social network for building your personal brand, growing your network, and finding your next career. In fact, a study found that 122 million people received an interview through LinkedIn, with 35.5 million having been hired by a person they connected with on the site.

When you are transitioning from the military, it is important to come up with a plan for your finances. When you’re financially ready to transition, you’ll have more freedom to explore different employment choices and won’t feel pressured to take the first job that you are offered.

The pandemic has arguably changed the landscape of the hiring process, most notably in the interview stage. Videoconferencing has evolved from a “nice to have” tool to now being the only means of communication between job seekers and employers.

Transitioning from the military can be overwhelming, daunting, and hard to know where to start. Add to that the current global health crisis, and it is especially difficult to navigate a military to civilian transition.

So you decided to end your career in the military and begin your new journey transitioning all the skills you learned and using them in the civilian world. You may be asking yourself what to do next and where to start now that you are leaving the military. What do you want to do? What industry do you want to work for? These are some of the right questions to ask yourself while seeking help to figure out which industry is best for you. The data center industry has been seeing a staffing shortage and needs the help of veterans and service members like you to help close it.

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