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I wrote this post to answer a common question I get emailed from nuke veterans.
The question is some version of…Can I still get a job if / will my life be over if…
I have my own opinion of the best answer to these questions, but I also asked the Facebook Group and got some great responses. Feel free to view, bump, or update the post.
I get the same questions in my GMail month to month.
This one’s all about should I go to college after the Nuclear Program? What degree is best for Navy Nukes?
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For most of you who are asking this, what you’re really asking is…How can I make the most money?
Right?
That’s the only reason we go to college…to learn how to make money.
Well, guess what…THEY DON’T TEACH YOU HOW TO MAKE MONEY IN COLLEGE.
So…I always advise people to just take the easiest path to getting a decent job, then learn to make money on your free time.
As a Nuke, you already have marketable skills. Skip college (says the guy with a Bachelors and a Doctorate), get any job making decent money. And then when everyone else is sleeping / partying / resting / vacationing / clubbing…you learn how to make money.
Start some side hustle. Then one day your side hustle kills your day job.
College is bull crap.
In March 2014, I posted the Top 7 Negotiating Tips on the NNJF Blog. I was hoping to help a few Nukes be able to negotiate for higher salaries, or to just make your life easier as all of life is one constant negotiation.
I want to update that article because I didn’t talk about a lot of the tactics used to close a negotiation. The first article mostly talks about the beginning portions of a negotiation.
In any negotiation, whether it is a sale, an argument with your boss, or just trying to convince yourself that you have the ability to accomplish something, there is always a point where you have to close the deal. Closing is usually about answering objections, and the biggest point I learned between now and writing that first article is that you should always question the objections. Continue reading “Negotiation Tactics Part 2”
Hi it’s Dustin again. I occasionally get noticed that certain companies are searching for Navy Nukes. Today I am giving a shout out to CoreSite. They are a company who is looking to hire Nukes. See the following link:
If you have questions regarding a career with CoreSite, then you should contact Amy Garner at amy.garner@CoreSite.com or visit www.coresite.com.
And don’t be afraid to share this post with someone who is looking for a job. This article was posted on 1/15/2015, if you are viewing this at a later date then the info may not be current. Please direct all questions regarding employment with CoreSite to CoreSite.com.
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Today we have a Guest Post from Tre Stokes, an MM1 Navy Nuke in the NNJF Community. Tre writes about his experience with the job finding website USAJobs.gov Continue reading “Finding a Job with USAJobs.gov”
Every Navy Nuke contemplates getting a call up to The Show. If operating nuclear reactor plants for the U. S. Navy could possibly be considered the minor leagues (certainly in terms of pay), then civilian nuclear power has to be considered the Majors.
We spend 6 or more years perfecting our craft, becoming the best nuclear power plant operators the world over. Many Navy Nukes want to leverage that knowledge and experience into something that offers a better quality of life and more financial reward. Some find that breaking into civilian nuclear power is more difficult than they had expected.
In an effort to encourage more Navy Nuclear Personnel to go stay nuclear, I interviewed a Senior Recruiter for one of the major nuclear power corporations in the United States.
As always, my questions are in bold, the interviewee responses are in normal type, and my commentary is in italics. Enjoy. Continue reading “Navy Nuke Interview With Exelon Nuclear Recruiting Team”
As nukes we learn a lot of stuff. Most of the skills we learn are what I would consider “hard” skills, like math, science, physics, thermodynamics, and similar. I wish they would have taught us some of the more “soft” skills in the pipeline. I’m talking about skills like how to relate to people, how to negotiate, public speaking, what networking is…
How to be a better negotiator would have been a very helpful skill during my six years in the pipeline. And now that I’m in civilian land, it’s a skill that I’ve had to master because I use it every day. Whether you are buying a new car, trying to craft a divorce settlement, asking for a pay raise or promotion, or just trying to convince your significant other to see things your way, knowing how to conduct (and win) a proper negotiation is an excellent skill to have. It has literally made me thousands of dollars and saved me a ton of grief.
So here’s my take on how to be a really freaking good negotiator… Continue reading “Top 7 Negotiating Tips”
There is a secret to building a perfect resume. My goal in this article is to teach you how to draft a resume that is more likely to get you the job than any other resume in the resume pile!
In this article you will learn:
Let’s get this party started…
The problem with this secret is that it is taboo in the job search / job finding world. Everybody knows it’s true…nobody likes to admit it. This little resume secret is complete blasphemy in “the industry.”
I don’t like to associate NavyNukeJobFinder.com with scandal, but I have to be real with my peeps (that’s you). So here’s the secret… Continue reading “How to Build a Job Winning Resume”
I put together a Navy Nuke Salary Survey for 2014. I will be updating this post regularly so that you can see how you stack up against other Navy Nukes. Are you behind the curve or ahead of the curve?
The survey consisted of a few questions designed to reveal how Navy Nukes stack up against each other in terms of salary. Here are the questions:
