Don’t even tell the hiring managers you’re a reservist.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.
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. ?Don’t even tell the hiring managers you’re a reservist.
They don’t need to know.
Don’t even tell the hiring managers you’re a reservist.
They don’t need to know.
Another thing that will hold you back is if your spouse is active duty when you’re going to apply for jobs.
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.Don’t even tell the hiring managers you’re a reservist.
They don’t need to know.
Yea I’m being serious.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. ?
BULLSHITYea 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.
It really isn’t paranoid BS. Lots of hiring managers do not want to hire reservists.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?
Maybe I should be talking to you about job opportunities.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.
He's not wrong.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. ?
And are these positions paying 120-150k a year?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).
It's not bullshit.BULLSHIT
He’s also not honest.He's not wrong.
Where on your job application does it ask if you're a reservist?He’s also not honest.