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Highwater FITREP Burden

nodropinufaka

nodropinufaka

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nittany03 said:
I’m not sure how much getting tagged with a MOB is going to “kick over a house of cards,” barring a really badly-timed one that blocks being able to take a job offer before USERRA kicks in or something. I mean, you will MOB as a 13X5 with a TS/SCI, at least once. That’s a fact. I’ve been told secondhand that the preference is to exhaust all qualified bodies who haven’t MOBed before dipping into folks who have MOBed at least once.

But six months to a year with USERRA protection isn’t going to make you unemployable. If anything, you can tell a prospective employer “look, I’m in dwell, that’s not going to be an issue for 2.5-5 years.” Are there hiring managers leery of reservists? Yep. But why would you want to work for someone like that anyway? One of my company’s VPs MOBed as an 18X5. If he can make VP at a F500 and retire as a SELRES, that tells me it’s not a kiss of death.
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Don’t even tell the hiring managers you’re a reservist.

They don’t need to know.
 
Brett327

Brett327

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nodropinufaka said:
Don’t even tell the hiring managers you’re a reservist.

They don’t need to know.
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Yeah, just lie to your employer and hope for the best when you get mob’d. Oh, wait… are you being serious, or are you trolling again?Do you think it’s weird that @HAL Pilot doesnt call me out when I call you an idiot? I‘m starting to think he may not be completely objective on such matters. ?
 
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exNavyOffRec

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nodropinufaka said:
Don’t even tell the hiring managers you’re a reservist.

They don’t need to know.
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That means scrub it off LinkedIn and FB

nodropinufaka said:
Another thing that will hold you back is if your spouse is active duty when you’re going to apply for jobs.
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There are employers who specifically look to hire veterans, reservist, and spouses of AD, my company and others have teams that go to career fairs geared to the military specifically to recruit those individuals, I was asked to attend one this week and have attended virtual career fairs over the past year (the virtual fairs were a failure in all aspects though).
 
nittany03

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nodropinufaka said:
Don’t even tell the hiring managers you’re a reservist.

They don’t need to know.
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Dude, I work at a F500, and I’m the coordinator for our veterans’ advocacy program at our corporate HQ. Which is why I’m personally acquainted with one of our Vice Presidents, who recently MOBed to a SOCOM unit shortly before he retired from the Navy, and this guy is one or two skip levels below the fucking CEO.

This “hide your reserve status” stuff is paranoid bullshit. USERRA is a thing, and beyond that, if your relationship with your immediate boss is based on a lie, that’s a shitty toxic way to spend 1/3 of your life. Besides which, they’ll know as soon as you have to do AT or ADT anyhow.

So why would you apply for a job knowing that they treat reservists badly to the point that you have to hide your status, when your status is going to come out anyway? What one job in the millions available is THAT important to your career advancement?
 
nodropinufaka

nodropinufaka

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Brett327 said:
Yeah, just lie to your employer and hope for the best when you get mob’d. Oh, wait… are you being serious, or are you trolling again?Do you think it’s weird that @HAL Pilot doesnt call me out when I call you an idiot? I‘m starting to think he may not be completely objective on such matters. ?
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Yea I’m being serious.

Unless you don’t want a job. Hiring managers absolutely care. I know multiple people who didn’t get positions because of their reserve status.

They don’t need to know and your job is protected.
 
nodropinufaka

nodropinufaka

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nittany03 said:
Dude, I work at a F500, and I’m the coordinator for our veterans’ advocacy program at our corporate HQ. Which is why I’m personally acquainted with one of our Vice Presidents, who recently MOBed to a SOCOM unit shortly before he retired from the Navy, and this guy is one or two skip levels below the fucking CEO.

This “hide your reserve status” stuff is paranoid bullshit. USERRA is a thing, and beyond that, if your relationship with your immediate boss is based on a lie, that’s a shitty toxic way to spend 1/3 of your life. Besides which, they’ll know as soon as you have to do AT or ADT anyhow.

So why would you apply for a job knowing that they treat reservists badly to the point that you have to hide your status, when your status is going to come out anyway? What one job in the millions available is THAT important to your career advancement?
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It really isn’t paranoid BS. Lots of hiring managers do not want to hire reservists.

No one is saying that the job you’re applying for treats reservists poorly.

But if I’m applying for a job in my salary range of 120-150k, I’m not at all going to divulge any additional information that could score negatively against me whether it’s implicit or explicit.

There’s tons of applicants for one billet in those pay scales. I’m not going too divulge anything extra.
 
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exNavyOffRec

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nittany03 said:
Dude, I work at a F500, and I’m the coordinator for our veterans’ advocacy program at our corporate HQ. Which is why I’m personally acquainted with one of our Vice Presidents, who recently MOBed to a SOCOM unit shortly before he retired from the Navy, and this guy is one or two skip levels below the fucking CEO.
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Maybe I should be talking to you about job opportunities.
 
nodropinufaka

nodropinufaka

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exNavyOffRec said:
That means scrub it off LinkedIn and FB



There are employers who specifically look to hire veterans, reservist, and spouses of AD, my company and others have teams that go to career fairs geared to the military specifically to recruit those individuals, I was asked to attend one this week and have attended virtual career fairs over the past year (the virtual fairs were a failure in all aspects though).
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And are these positions paying 120-150k a year?

Just wondering. Cause I saw a lot of jobs posted regarding hiring mil spouses and reservists and once talking to the recruiter it was a salary of around 70-90k.
 
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