Norman is the a Senior Technical Recruiter and the Military Outreach Coordinator for IntelliDyne, LLC. As a lead recruiter, Norman is responsible for finding candidates that will turn into long-lasting employees for his clients. Once his team receives the job needs from the government, Norman crafts job ads and pulls from his reservoir of readily-available talent. Not just filling a position, Norman also works with each candidate through the entire hiring process, critiquing and coaching them to become the best possible candidate for the client. Norman suggests gaining interview practice with someone in the private sector before getting an actual interview so you can be better prepared.
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Practice interviewing, because military people, enlisted or officer, do not have to interview. They're asked, what MOS would you like? Where would you like to be stationed next? If you're gonna stay in. There's a retention officer talking to them, but it's not an interview process. I hadn't had professional interviews. I had to learn how to do that actually once I graduated from here and was looking at some of those other positions that I wanted to go into in the business sector. Because the healthcare field was a given. I walked in, can you do this, did you do that, we can teach you this, you got the job. I never did not get a job on an interview at first, but once I graduated from college and was looking to make a transition, it was more difficult. It was a whole different ballgame and I didn't know the rules. So, work with somebody. There's so much outreach now. It is so different than when I got out. There is companies that have people like me in them. Reach out to those people. It is our job to give that Soldier or Airmen or Marine 10 fingers up and put them 5% above anybody else, apples to apples, in the process.
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