Episode 22
From Soldier to Civilian: Essential Strategies for Military Families in Transition
Imagine being on the verge of homelessness, desperately searching for a lifeline to ease the burden of transitioning from military to civilian life. Now, picture a ray of hope named Franchette Dyer, whose unwavering dedication is about to change everything.
Her journey began with a simple conversation, but what unfolds next is a testament to the power of compassion and resilience. Brace yourself for a twist that will leave you inspired and hungry for more, as we delve into the remarkable story of Franchette Dyer and her mission to rewrite the destinies of military families.
My special guest is Franchette Dyer
Franchette Dyer is an impactful advocate for military families who have dedicated her life to ensuring that the transition process from service to civilian life isn't just about shifting jobs, but creating careers. As the founder and CEO of Vet Tech Business Services, Franchette brings a uniquely holistic approach to her work, prioritizing each and every family member from service members to spouses, children, and even pets. With over three decades of experience and an unwavering commitment, she assists these families not only in creating resumes but also in strategizing future plans, navigating financial preparations, and understanding the long-term benefits of transition.
Resilience is key when transitioning. We have to know how to transition with resilience and look for the future, even when it's hard to see. That's what we do at Vet Tech Business Services. - Francetta Dyer
In this episode, you will be able to:
- Conquer the challenges of transitioning from military to civilian life with your family intact.
- Gain access to comprehensive tools and support to ease your family through the process.
- Master the art of creating result-driven resumes for military spouses and dependents.
- Understand the crucial influence of military transition on dependents and pets.
- Build resilience and adaptability to streamline transitioning without a hitch.
Gain comprehensive support tools
When transitioning from military to civilian life, obtaining complete and accurate information is vital. Support tools, like the Boots to Business program or advice from experts like Francetta Dyer, play an important role in providing essential guidance and insights. With their assistance, military families can articulate their experiences and skills effectively, understand the nuances of the civilian job market, and plan strategically for a smoother transition.
Conquer challenges of transition
Transitions from military to civilian life pose unique challenges for military families. These hurdles may involve adapting to a new professional environment, relocating to a new home, or facing misconceptions about military experience. Navigating these challenges successfully requires understanding each family member's needs and attitudes towards the shift and implementing a holistic and inclusive strategy.
Master result-driven resume creation
Building a result-driven resume is a critical step in securing job opportunities post-military service. However, the task of translating military experience into civilian terminology can be daunting. By understanding employers' expectations and keeping up to date on current resume trends, families transitioning out of military service can create engaging and relevant resumes that reflect their unique skill sets and resonate with potential employers.
The key moments in this episode are:
00:00:04 - The Importance of Identity,
00:00:23 - Introduction to "Redefining Success",
00:02:00 - Transitioning from Military to Civilian Life,
00:06:03 - Supporting the Entire Military Family,
00:16:18 - "Accomplishments and Importance",
00:17:10 - "Understanding Transitions and Knowing Your Audience",
00:18:21 - "Differing Advice and Preparation",
00:19:54 - "GS System and Resume Writing",
00:22:27 - "Preparing for Retirement",
00:30:54 - Writing Your Resume for the Right Audience,
00:31:58 - Tailoring Your Resume to Highlight Value,
00:33:43 - Customizing LinkedIn Profiles,
00:36:12 - Varying Resume Requirements,
00:38:09 - Recognizing Opportunities Designed for Specific Individuals,
00:45:49 - Struggles with Job Search,
00:46:21 - Passion for Helping Military Spouses,
00:47:05 - Importance of Sharing Information,
00:48:19 - The Impact of Transition on Mental and Spiritual Well-being,
00:50:49 - Recognizing Your Value in Transition
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Transcript
Everything hinges on identity. It is the
Speaker:compass of our faith that aligns with the
Speaker:Holy Spirit to fulfill the Father's will.
Speaker:Wrapped up in identity is who we are, the
Speaker:purpose of our being, and every God
Speaker:breathed promise that manifests as our
Speaker:success. Hello, I'm LaQuida Mon, and I'm
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Speaker:Use for a growth mindset, but I'll also
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Speaker:for a growth mindset. Take care. Welcome
Speaker:back to another amazing episode of
Speaker:Laquita's Toolbox Live. I am your host,
Speaker:Laquita Monley and Y'all. Let me tell you,
Speaker:I'm just going to say this is the day that
Speaker:the Lord is made and we are rejoicing and
Speaker:we are glad in it. Listen everybody, thank
Speaker:you. I'm going to give a few more people
Speaker:the opportunity to come on into the room,
Speaker:but I've got an amazing guest in studio
Speaker:with me today, and she is going to be
Speaker:giving us some great gems on what? It
Speaker:means not only we're going to be talking
Speaker:about not only what it means to be a
Speaker:military family, but the topic of the hour
Speaker:is this what do we need to do to prepare
Speaker:ourselves for properly transitioning from
Speaker:active duty service as a military family
Speaker:into full on civilian life? And those
Speaker:changes, many people are going through
Speaker:that. And my guest today, Ms. Francetta
Speaker:Dreyer. She is a subject matter expert on
Speaker:this, a fellow military spouse. I'm happy
Speaker:to have her. And y'all, I know this is
Speaker:going to be good. I know this is going to
Speaker:be so good. Not just because Frenchetta is
Speaker:the boss, but y'all would not believe the
Speaker:amount of drama that it took today to get
Speaker:on this broadcast. I'm like, oh my God,
Speaker:the devil is alive. So look, you all I
Speaker:see, we got some folks coming in the room.
Speaker:Thank you so much you guys. Please hit
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Speaker:Thank you so much for joining us. Dear
Speaker:Facebook user, and you write, this episode
Speaker:is definitely a gem. It's one that you
Speaker:guys going to want to go back and look at
Speaker:over and over. But before we do get
Speaker:jumping into the conversation, ms.
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Speaker:without further ado, Ms. Francetta, how
Speaker:are you doing today? How is your day? I am
Speaker:doing fantastic. Thank you for having me
Speaker:tonight. Thank you for your yes and your
Speaker:patience. We're military spouses, so we're
Speaker:used to this. We have to know how to
Speaker:transition resiliency, right? Resiliency.
Speaker:You got to keep it moving in the midst of
Speaker:transition. Keep it moving. Find the
Speaker:solutions as you go. But look, take a
Speaker:moment to let everyone know who you are
Speaker:and what you do. As you know. I'm
Speaker:Francetta Dyer, and I'm the CEO and
Speaker:founder of Vet tech business services. And
Speaker:what we do here at Vet Tech Business
Speaker:Services is that we transition families.
Speaker:We first sit down with that service member
Speaker:and we make sure that we have a career
Speaker:path for them. Because Vet Tech Business
Speaker:Services, we don't do jobs. We do careers.
Speaker:That's the first thing you need to
Speaker:understand about us because we have to
Speaker:look for the future for you, because
Speaker:sometimes you can't see it. So the first
Speaker:thing we do is make sure that that service
Speaker:member is taken care of and make sure that
Speaker:they're on the right path to their goals.
Speaker:Then we go to the military spouse. And I
Speaker:feel that every military spouse should
Speaker:have a resume no matter what you do,
Speaker:because you have to be prepared for the
Speaker:AHA moments. And AHA moments sometimes do
Speaker:come. So we want to give them a free
Speaker:resume and then we go to their dependent.
Speaker:Most people forget about the dependence,
Speaker:but if you have 11th and twelveTH graders
Speaker:that are out there looking to go to
Speaker:college, they need a free resume. And that
Speaker:is what we also give to them. And we sit
Speaker:them down. If they need help looking for
Speaker:scholarships, grants, thinking about
Speaker:certain degrees, they pick the right
Speaker:degree for their career path as well later
Speaker:on down the line. And then we even take
Speaker:care of your animals. We have other
Speaker:military spouses that can talk to your
Speaker:animals if they need help or they're
Speaker:acting up. So we transition families from
Speaker:the military. We don't transition just a
Speaker:service member. We do families. That's
Speaker:what makes us different. And we do it as a
Speaker:group and we ask those hard questions amen
Speaker:a resume writer, but I am a coach. I am an
Speaker:influencer. I am a resume. That is what I
Speaker:want my clients to walk around looking at
Speaker:is hashtag, I am a resume. That's awesome.
Speaker:Look, you just dropped some gems right
Speaker:there. Because as you were speaking, it
Speaker:made me think about every time we talk.
Speaker:And I'm just always amazed at the value
Speaker:that you bring to the military family. The
Speaker:transition process is not an easy process,
Speaker:and I know we've had several conversations
Speaker:about it, and I love that you help the
Speaker:entire family transition because as I
Speaker:shared me and my family story as we were
Speaker:preparing for the transition, our total
Speaker:mindset was, how is this going to impact
Speaker:my husband? How is this going to impact
Speaker:him psychologically, emotionally? How is
Speaker:that going to impact him shifting into a
Speaker:completely different lifestyle? Because
Speaker:for almost 25 years, he was a soldier. In
Speaker:my opinion, he was the best non
Speaker:commissioned officer in the United States
Speaker:Army. And I'm entitled to that, and I will
Speaker:argue anybody about that. Okay? And so was
Speaker:mine. He was number one. Go army. Right?
Speaker:So we were focusing on that that we didn't
Speaker:put a lot of energy into thinking about
Speaker:how was that transition into civilian life
Speaker:going to impact me and even more into it,
Speaker:as you were saying, the services and the
Speaker:coaching that you provide as it related to
Speaker:our children. We didn't think about them
Speaker:at all until we were at Frankfurt on the
Speaker:plane, and they said some things to us.
Speaker:They spoke to us. And they were teenagers
Speaker:at the time. The two older ones were in
Speaker:college, but they had been going to
Speaker:college at the education center on
Speaker:Raffenbier. The youngest one was a
Speaker:freshman. All of my children had never
Speaker:known anything outside their dad being in
Speaker:the army. And so the questions that they
Speaker:asked us, well, will we still get to go on
Speaker:post? Do we still get to keep our ID card?
Speaker:How will this work? It's like you don't
Speaker:think about how that impacts that move
Speaker:will impact your entire household and the
Speaker:dog. Yes. We didn't think about how that
Speaker:would impact the dog. No. Because the
Speaker:animals start acting up and you're
Speaker:thinking they're being bad, but they're
Speaker:not. They have anxiety differently. It's
Speaker:not that no one thinks about the
Speaker:dependence. When you say dependent, they
Speaker:normally think of the military spouse.
Speaker:They normally say the military kid. No,
Speaker:the dependents are the military spouse.
Speaker:And the children. And the children. And to
Speaker:the family pet. The family pet. Very much
Speaker:so. Because when we got here, not thinking
Speaker:about know, we figure Inga is going to be
Speaker:okay. Inga is our know, Inga is going to
Speaker:be okay. She's been with us. She's coming
Speaker:home with us. But just because Inga was
Speaker:with us did not mean that Inga was okay
Speaker:with being in this new environment. And we
Speaker:ended up eventually having to take her to
Speaker:the vet to find out she had anxiety and
Speaker:separation and the things that she was
Speaker:doing was a result of that because we had
Speaker:her in this brand new place that she did
Speaker:not want to be in because she had spent
Speaker:her whole life in Germany. And now you
Speaker:bring me to Texas and it's two degrees
Speaker:cooler than hell. Like, what are you
Speaker:doing? Exactly? Everybody transitions so
Speaker:people forget that when you're
Speaker:transitioning, it is the entire family.
Speaker:It's not just that service member because
Speaker:when he transitioned, he's not the mission
Speaker:anymore. Now who is his battle buddy? His
Speaker:battle buddy is the military spouse and
Speaker:his children or her children or just a
Speaker:spouse, depending on if you have
Speaker:dependence. So everything changes. The
Speaker:dynamic in the family changes. Everyone
Speaker:has an opinion, but everybody is afraid to
Speaker:say it, to say something and ask those
Speaker:hard questions we ask about your finances.
Speaker:Before you even start trying to find a
Speaker:job, I need to know that you can be
Speaker:focused on that. If your monies are good
Speaker:now, most people are going to worry about
Speaker:that. And so they can't start doing it now
Speaker:because vet tech business do it. So don't
Speaker:start asking about your money. We do that
Speaker:because they're going to get tired of it.
Speaker:I've been doing age of 16, so this is
Speaker:something that my parents taught us. And
Speaker:certain things you can't get in a book you
Speaker:either have. Don't you have to have that
Speaker:experience? Yes. So vet tech businesses
Speaker:have that experience because we've been
Speaker:doing it for over 30 something years. So
Speaker:it's important that we understand about
Speaker:transitioning the entire family. That is
Speaker:so awesome. Listen guys, if you are just
Speaker:tuning into the live welcome, welcome. If
Speaker:you've been here since the beginning,
Speaker:thank you for sticking around. Look guys,
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Speaker:listen, thank you for tuning in. Get in
Speaker:the comment section. We want to hear from
Speaker:you. If you're a military family or you
Speaker:know, military families, this broadcast
Speaker:has some great information, but we want to
Speaker:know your thoughts, share your thoughts,
Speaker:share your experiences. Don't be afraid to
Speaker:jump in the chat and engage in this
Speaker:conversation. We do want to hear from you.
Speaker:So again, when you get into the broadcast,
Speaker:get in the comments, let us know who you
Speaker:are, where you're from, and please add
Speaker:some value to this conversation. Now, I
Speaker:know that we're both military spouses and
Speaker:there's millions of military spouses
Speaker:across the globe and we do a number of
Speaker:different things for both our vocations
Speaker:and our occupations. But you have chosen
Speaker:to specifically focus in on transitioning
Speaker:and helping the entire family transition.
Speaker:What ignites your passion for the military
Speaker:family in that way? Like, what pushes you
Speaker:and what's your why? The reason why I
Speaker:focus on the military family is one word
Speaker:homeless. All right? That's a powerful
Speaker:word. It is no reason that a family of a
Speaker:military family should ever be homeless.
Speaker:Not even a service member. Yeah, because
Speaker:we're very compassionate about that. And
Speaker:what I mean by that is when I say that we
Speaker:take care of the whole family. We ask them
Speaker:about benefits, we make sure that, are you
Speaker:going to the VA? And if they're not, we
Speaker:know people who can help them. That's
Speaker:good. So homelessness is my word, because
Speaker:it's no excuse for a military family to be
Speaker:homeless or without a career. I don't want
Speaker:to say jobs because vet tech business like
Speaker:to do careers. So that for longevity, so
Speaker:you can make something of your family, so
Speaker:you all can be stable. So very important
Speaker:to me that when I have clients, we look at
Speaker:careers. I don't do jobs. I do careers to
Speaker:make sure that they are stable within
Speaker:their family. As one unit. As one unit.
Speaker:That's real good. Because homelessness in
Speaker:the military community happens more often
Speaker:than people realize. And I live outside of
Speaker:Fort Hood. It's the biggest military
Speaker:installation out of all of the branches,
Speaker:bar none, it's the biggest one. And we
Speaker:have an amazing amount of homeless
Speaker:veterans. And to be fair, even some active
Speaker:duty and reservists. And people might be
Speaker:listening to this and thinking to
Speaker:yourselves, well, how are you homeless and
Speaker:you affiliated with the military? Life
Speaker:happens. Yes. They don't care. Life
Speaker:happens. And it happens without your
Speaker:permission. Correct. And a lot of times
Speaker:they have to be prepared. So, again, you
Speaker:have to prepare that service member. You
Speaker:have to prepare them so that they are
Speaker:ready to transition and people forget who
Speaker:they are talking to. That's why it's
Speaker:important to know your audience. What I
Speaker:mean by that is when they are talking to
Speaker:transitioning service members, they stand
Speaker:up and they let them know, you can do
Speaker:anything that you want to do. That is not
Speaker:a true statement. You cannot. Come on, we
Speaker:need to hone in on what you are really
Speaker:great at and talk to them for less than 15
Speaker:minutes. I can already do their career
Speaker:path and tell them what jobs they can do
Speaker:and pretty much create that resume for
Speaker:them so that when they look at that
Speaker:resume, they sit up like this instead of
Speaker:like this. Yes. Come on. Pride in
Speaker:themselves. I show them. This is what you
Speaker:have accomplished out of one year, four
Speaker:years, ten years, one years, 30 years.
Speaker:It's no little people or big people. And
Speaker:what I mean by that is a specialist is
Speaker:just as important as my three star
Speaker:general. Come on now. That's real good.
Speaker:That's real good. Is treated the same
Speaker:across the board, which is called. And
Speaker:that is what we have to make sure that
Speaker:these families understand about
Speaker:transitioning. You have to know who you
Speaker:are. Talking to, because if I'm still a
Speaker:green suitor and I'm talking to someone
Speaker:who's transitioning and they're not fully
Speaker:out, and I say to them, I want you to do
Speaker:ABCD and never get a resume done, they're
Speaker:still in the mindset of still being a
Speaker:service member. Yes. So they're going to
Speaker:believe what you tell them. I wait two
Speaker:years to come back to me to ask for help
Speaker:because people told them, don't do this,
Speaker:don't do that. Come on, that's real good.
Speaker:You have to know your audience. So when
Speaker:I'm speaking to individuals, I make sure
Speaker:they understand. Here is what I can give
Speaker:you. You want my help, right? And even if
Speaker:they don't use vet tech business services,
Speaker:I still give them tips to help them in
Speaker:their next. Like, I remember when my
Speaker:husband was going through the tap process
Speaker:and I went to a couple of sessions with
Speaker:him that was recommended to bring your
Speaker:spouse. And we purposely signed up. At
Speaker:that time, it was called Boots to Business
Speaker:because we knew that one of the things we
Speaker:wanted to do upon his retirement would
Speaker:become successful entrepreneurs. But we
Speaker:needed to know what was the good place to
Speaker:start. We wanted to know what was the
Speaker:military offering in way of assistance and
Speaker:who could set us up guided tracking. So
Speaker:with that, that helped us a great deal.
Speaker:But I also noticed in some of those
Speaker:classes, especially the resume writing and
Speaker:all of that, it was highly recommended
Speaker:that you don't pay for a resume. Correct?
Speaker:And then we happened to have some
Speaker:conversations. My husband was a coach for
Speaker:the football team for Cys and had some
Speaker:conversation with some of the parents who
Speaker:had already transitioned out and they were
Speaker:civilians. And so the information that we
Speaker:got from them was the exact opposite of
Speaker:what was given to us in Taps. It's like,
Speaker:no, you need to pay for that. You need to
Speaker:pay for that because there's so many
Speaker:nuances to this. And the translation of
Speaker:your active duty certificates, your job
Speaker:descriptions, the different things that
Speaker:you have on how to write it in a way that
Speaker:it won't get kicked out. At that time, it
Speaker:was resumes for USA Jobs. It was easier,
Speaker:though, with resumes. It was easier
Speaker:because that's how I started my company in
Speaker:Germany. I heard two service members say
Speaker:they couldn't make a list and I told them
Speaker:I could help them. And that's how I
Speaker:started overseas with doing resumes. And I
Speaker:started helping enlisted because at one
Speaker:point, and I'm very compassionate about
Speaker:enlisted, they would always tell enlisted
Speaker:that you could be a GS five or seven or
Speaker:nine. And so I wanted to go against the
Speaker:ODS, and so I did. So I made sure that my
Speaker:enlisted are 13, 1415 and on, up and on.
Speaker:Because really, depending upon what your
Speaker:career field is, what certifications you
Speaker:made sure you got while you were on active
Speaker:duty, civilian education, military
Speaker:education, experience, all of these great
Speaker:things, especially as you get to be senior
Speaker:noncoms, it didn't make sense to nothing
Speaker:wrong with a GS five, GS six, GS seven,
Speaker:eight, or not. Nothing wrong with that. I
Speaker:was when I came in and I had an MBA.
Speaker:Exactly. That makes sense. Yes. Right. You
Speaker:have to look at it and understand TDAs and
Speaker:manpower. So when I speak about manpower,
Speaker:I'm talking about what is your TDAs, what
Speaker:is the highest grade in that area? And
Speaker:sometimes the highest grade in that area
Speaker:is a GS six. So you got to know different
Speaker:things about the government side as far as
Speaker:GS, because you will be thinking, well,
Speaker:I'm equivalent to a 13, but they only have
Speaker:a nine, so you may have to apply for a
Speaker:nine. So you have to understand the TDA
Speaker:manpower. What does that really look like?
Speaker:Before you just decide to say, I don't
Speaker:want to do this, but then back to the
Speaker:resume. You have to be able to talk your
Speaker:resume back. It wasn't that big of a deal,
Speaker:but as they changed the systems,
Speaker:everything got kicked out. If you didn't
Speaker:have this, if you didn't have that. But
Speaker:they start making mistakes as well. So you
Speaker:have to know what you want before you even
Speaker:get out of the military. They may not tell
Speaker:you this, but 120 days is not enough time
Speaker:to have a resume. Come on. Now. Clients
Speaker:had resumes, and they was 15 years in 20
Speaker:years. Come on. Their resume was already
Speaker:there. All we had to do is go back and
Speaker:retweak it. And I'd already taught them
Speaker:how to understand USA jobs. So most of my
Speaker:clients don't come back because I have
Speaker:them set up for the grade that they're in
Speaker:the next grade and the grade after that.
Speaker:So they don't need to come back because
Speaker:they already prepped and prepared for the
Speaker:future. For the future difference. With
Speaker:Vet Tech, we try to sit down and make sure
Speaker:that in most cases, you have to keep
Speaker:coming back and forth. I don't need to see
Speaker:you four or five times, because if I don't
Speaker:five times, I haven't done my job. Come
Speaker:on, that's good. I have to make sure that
Speaker:resume is where your family connect sale,
Speaker:and you can make profit and you can get
Speaker:promoted. Listen, you all, if you just
Speaker:tuned in, you're missing some gems. But
Speaker:don't worry. This is a podcast. It's a
Speaker:live stream. Hashtag replay is in effect.
Speaker:You can go back, rewind this thing and
Speaker:listen to it, because I already knew Miss
Speaker:Francetta was going to drop gems on us.
Speaker:Listen, military family, the family
Speaker:members of military families share this
Speaker:broadcast. She is giving great wisdom for
Speaker:military families. And what you just said,
Speaker:look, you all hit them like share and
Speaker:subscribe. Get this out, because this can
Speaker:bless some people. It can bless a whole
Speaker:lot of people, because that 120 days.
Speaker:That's a drop in the bucket. You own crash
Speaker:mode. Like you're trying to do too many
Speaker:things in such a short amount of time. And
Speaker:I know, like, when Ben was getting ready
Speaker:to come to retirement, the recommended
Speaker:time at that point to start your process
Speaker:was two years out. But we also know that
Speaker:just because that's recommended don't mean
Speaker:you was going to get in them classes. So
Speaker:if we already know the standard says you
Speaker:need two years out before you do it,
Speaker:before you drop that packet, start doing
Speaker:these things, then you probably should go
Speaker:into if you at 15 years and you know
Speaker:you're going to do 20, you need to look at
Speaker:what you're doing at year 15. Do I need a
Speaker:degree? What do I need a degree in? What
Speaker:can I be doing in these last few years to
Speaker:prepare me for where I want to go? And
Speaker:that's something that Ms. Francella just
Speaker:dropped on you. But one of the other
Speaker:things that she just really explained was
Speaker:she gave a little bit of insight into how
Speaker:the GS system really works. And so what
Speaker:I'd love for you to do right now is either
Speaker:dispel the error let me say it like this.
Speaker:Give us some truth on well, just take this
Speaker:GS position now and you can work your way
Speaker:up in the system. Okay, that's a true and
Speaker:false statement. Come on, let's talk about
Speaker:it. Now, depending on how you was picked
Speaker:up, if you picked up from the VRA or Veoa,
Speaker:different statuses allow you to do
Speaker:different things. Yes, VRA. Three years.
Speaker:Veoa, ten years. Now you're going into a
Speaker:whole different area. So you have to know
Speaker:how they picked you, if they picked you
Speaker:off of this list or that list, and what
Speaker:was the status? Was it VRA? Was it
Speaker:military spouse? Was it veoa? How were you
Speaker:picked up? Okay, so a lot of people don't
Speaker:ask that. They just get it. And then when
Speaker:I ask them, they don't know. I mean,
Speaker:people don't even know to ask it, though.
Speaker:But the reason why they don't know,
Speaker:because during the 120 days while you out
Speaker:processing and taps, you are on your phone
Speaker:looking at, I need to get housing. I need
Speaker:to make sure everything is being moved. Do
Speaker:my daughter's son have school ready?
Speaker:That's not top priority for them is to
Speaker:look at that resume. Priority is that I'm
Speaker:about to retire. I got to make sure
Speaker:retirement is ready. If we buy in a home,
Speaker:is my family safe? Right. Resume writing
Speaker:is important, but normally it kind of just
Speaker:kind of passes by because I've went to
Speaker:Taps and stood outside the door and
Speaker:watched them. In my class, you wouldn't
Speaker:have a phone, but when you walked out, you
Speaker:would have a government resume. A
Speaker:government resume to apply for a position
Speaker:when you walked out the door. I love that.
Speaker:Now break that down in the difference of
Speaker:the resume types, whether you're going in
Speaker:to apply for because I know. Let me just
Speaker:talk about for probably when our spouses
Speaker:were in, and we're talking old army, 30,
Speaker:40. Years ago but seem like current army.
Speaker:That way of thinking is still lingering
Speaker:and it's having some negative impact on
Speaker:some senior noncoms and probably even some
Speaker:field grade officers or junior officers
Speaker:who thought that my bachelor's degree was
Speaker:just going to be enough. It'll get me
Speaker:where I need to go in my rank or with the
Speaker:senior noncoms. I don't have to worry
Speaker:about getting my bachelor's or my master's
Speaker:or whatever. I'm going to just stay in my
Speaker:field and if I can't get into GS, I'm
Speaker:going to walk into the contracting. Help
Speaker:us get rid of that erroneous, way of
Speaker:thinking. You have so many people that
Speaker:they're in the government, so the
Speaker:government system, so when they say that
Speaker:to service members who are getting out,
Speaker:they're going to take their words. I
Speaker:worked at CPAC, I've been manpower, I've
Speaker:been a personnel assistant. I've done in
Speaker:out processing. I've downsized a whole
Speaker:finance battalion. I've done TDAs, I've
Speaker:done it all. The problem is you need to
Speaker:understand that in some cases I know they
Speaker:say this a lot on LinkedIn, that if you're
Speaker:this rank, then this is your GS level.
Speaker:They go by ranks. But what would you say
Speaker:if you have a person that has an associate
Speaker:degree that's a GS 14 that retired as a
Speaker:master sergeant? Oh, that's one of my
Speaker:clients. Or first class that got some
Speaker:education. He's a 13. So for me, I go
Speaker:against the ODS. I'm the one that go
Speaker:against the ODS. That's why I call myself
Speaker:a badass military spouse. Come on now.
Speaker:Someone tell me how to take care of my
Speaker:clients. Come on, that's real good. So a
Speaker:lot of people are going to agree with me
Speaker:and a lot of them won't. But guess what?
Speaker:I'm okay with it. I'm still not going. But
Speaker:you can't argue with results. So what I do
Speaker:is I look at what they have to offer and
Speaker:then I can tell them what career path they
Speaker:need to go and what grade level they need
Speaker:to be at. Right. I sit down with every
Speaker:family member after I break them down. So
Speaker:it depends because a lot of times they're
Speaker:going to tell you, you have to have a
Speaker:doctorate for this master's and BS in some
Speaker:cases, certain things do need to have a
Speaker:degree. It depends on the position that
Speaker:you're applying for. You have to have
Speaker:certain certifications. But before you
Speaker:just go panicking, you need to come talk
Speaker:to me. I'll give you 30 minutes for free,
Speaker:but that's all you get between 15 minutes
Speaker:and 30 minutes. After that, the clock
Speaker:starts ticking. Okay. Right. Come on. Now.
Speaker:But this is information that you need to
Speaker:invest in. Yes. But you have to take time
Speaker:out and close out everybody and pick the
Speaker:company that's best for you to have
Speaker:transition. And a lot of times, yes, they
Speaker:will tell you don't pay for a resume and
Speaker:guess what? Don't if that's what you want
Speaker:to do. But no one ever told me what I
Speaker:could not do because offered to help me.
Speaker:No one offered to tell me these things. I
Speaker:had to research and learn off a trial and
Speaker:error. And in nine years being overseas
Speaker:military spouses, I never interviewed for
Speaker:a job. I knew how to network. Come on. How
Speaker:to network and you do it correctly by the
Speaker:book. Believe me. When my husband was
Speaker:moving to and and he was in Grappling
Speaker:deer, I was actually already reaching out
Speaker:to people. Hello. I am Francetta Daya. I
Speaker:know you need an admin assistant. I can do
Speaker:RPA. All I need is yes or no. Yes. Okay.
Speaker:Thank you. So you have to know how to
Speaker:network. And a lot of times your pride is
Speaker:on your shoulder because of your degrees.
Speaker:Foreign country, you need to play by the
Speaker:rules and understand that you're going to
Speaker:have to do some work. Yes. GS four for me.
Speaker:I started out as a GS four, but the things
Speaker:that I've done, some of the things that
Speaker:I've been in and saw, most military
Speaker:spouses have not seen them, but probably
Speaker:officers have. Yeah. So again, you have to
Speaker:understand the right attitude. You have to
Speaker:have the right attitude when you are
Speaker:transitioning because you was called sir,
Speaker:when I speak to you, I'm going to call you
Speaker:by your first name. Either Keith, Bob,
Speaker:Joe, Harry, because in the civilian in
Speaker:corporate America, they're not about to
Speaker:call you colonel or general. Not at all.
Speaker:Now they're going to give you that respect
Speaker:because you are general. But most of the
Speaker:time some people who have never heard
Speaker:about the military or like the military,
Speaker:it's not going to give you that type of
Speaker:respect. Come on. That's real good thing
Speaker:you have to think about as you writing
Speaker:your resume is who are you presenting it
Speaker:to? Please stop putting secret claimants
Speaker:on all of your resumes and not applying
Speaker:for. A job that requires it. Yeah. Because
Speaker:you're telling too many people I was in
Speaker:Germany doing 911. So that's why I'm very
Speaker:adamant about don't put all these secret
Speaker:clearances and stuff. And another gem that
Speaker:you really need to remember is just.
Speaker:Because certain awards you've got, they
Speaker:don't need to be on the resume. I talked
Speaker:about this before. I had a client that did
Speaker:not want to take off his Purple Heart. And
Speaker:I told him, I said, It's not that it's not
Speaker:important, but I need you to understand
Speaker:that's going to open some doors. He
Speaker:suffered with PTSD. He left it on there
Speaker:because at the end of the day, I can't
Speaker:make you do anything. Now, I'm not a
Speaker:bully, but I'm 411, and I kind of know
Speaker:some things. I kind of been around for a
Speaker:while. You're 411? Well, when you went to
Speaker:the interview, guess what they started
Speaker:asking? Oh, you got a purple horse. So how
Speaker:did you get it? What happened? They
Speaker:started asking some questions that took
Speaker:his PTSD to a whole different level.
Speaker:Another level? Yeah, because guess what?
Speaker:They weren't in the service, and this was
Speaker:something new to them. They'd heard about
Speaker:it. But can you tell me your experience?
Speaker:No. And he said, Ms. Dyer, I think we need
Speaker:to take that off. I said, are you sure?
Speaker:Yes. So you have to know what to put on
Speaker:the resume and what to leave off as well.
Speaker:Right. So I love that what you've covered
Speaker:there, because that has me thinking about
Speaker:not just the resumes, but the LinkedIn
Speaker:profiles, your other social media
Speaker:profiles, where your header, that first
Speaker:thing that people are going to see that
Speaker:describes who you are and what you bring
Speaker:to the table. What's your value? How can
Speaker:you be of value to the company? And I love
Speaker:that. I see a lot of times because my
Speaker:husband is in that intel community, a lot
Speaker:of my LinkedIn friends are, of course,
Speaker:from our time as a military family. And I
Speaker:guarantee you 99.99% of them have that TSI
Speaker:poly or whatever they have. You know what
Speaker:I'm saying? Tstcsi. They have all of that
Speaker:in their LinkedIn descriptions. But what
Speaker:does that have to do with anything on your
Speaker:LinkedIn? I understand that companies want
Speaker:to see that because some companies look
Speaker:for that. That is what they are
Speaker:researching for. But you may want to hide
Speaker:it within the resume so they can still.
Speaker:See it, like within your about section.
Speaker:Yes. But again, everyone will have their
Speaker:own opinion on a resume. So let's make
Speaker:sure we understand that. And also, if one
Speaker:of my clients, I do a resume for them and
Speaker:then a recruiter tell them, I don't like
Speaker:this resume. I want it done like ABCDEFG.
Speaker:We flip real quick and put it ABCDEFG
Speaker:because they're trying to get a job. So
Speaker:understand that a resume is never hear
Speaker:this clearly is never written in stone.
Speaker:You have to change it. So the resume that
Speaker:you would use for USA Jobs, is it in the
Speaker:same format or layout as the resume that
Speaker:you would use with a contractor? Because
Speaker:you're mentioning, know, getting getting
Speaker:your information in the hands of the
Speaker:recruiter in these big contracting for the
Speaker:contracting world, how different does that
Speaker:resume need to look? Something that I'm
Speaker:going to submit to USA Jobs versus
Speaker:something that I'm going to submit to one
Speaker:of these contracting companies. It's going
Speaker:to vary because and I'll give my example,
Speaker:when I went for my contracting job in DC,
Speaker:my government resume was good for them. I
Speaker:didn't professional resume, it's going to
Speaker:be determined. So what I would do is I
Speaker:would ask what is the format that you
Speaker:prefer for my resume to be in? Because you
Speaker:can ask that question because they may say
Speaker:we just want two pages. Bullet point.
Speaker:Well, some people want to see what you've
Speaker:done for the military and that's good
Speaker:because they can look at it and say, okay,
Speaker:yes, they actually did hold this position.
Speaker:Yes, they did do this. And others will
Speaker:only want two pages. So it will vary. It
Speaker:will vary. Yes, ma'am. Because I think
Speaker:every contract company is different. Some
Speaker:contract companies, just like I said, they
Speaker:took my USA Job resume. But then another
Speaker:contract company, I had only wanted two
Speaker:pages, only wanted two pages on who you
Speaker:are applying with and what is their format
Speaker:for resume submission for resumes. So
Speaker:basically my takeaway is it depends upon
Speaker:the employer's preference. Whether we're
Speaker:trying to stay in the GS world, whether we
Speaker:are trying to go into the government
Speaker:contracting world, and even maybe in the
Speaker:true civilian sector. Coming into
Speaker:corporate America and just walking away
Speaker:from federal government. Well, state
Speaker:government or into true civilian world
Speaker:corporate America. It depends upon what
Speaker:the company wants or needs or what the
Speaker:state government might want or need to see
Speaker:from you. So it's not a one size fits all.
Speaker:No, because even in the USA Jobs part of
Speaker:it, USA job has a little format that you
Speaker:can put your information in. And my format
Speaker:is different than theirs. I upload my
Speaker:resume so it's different. And sometimes
Speaker:they'll have it where it should look more
Speaker:like a professional resume, which I know
Speaker:for a fact has none of the words in it.
Speaker:And people who have gotten normally people
Speaker:who have put a two page resume in for a
Speaker:USA job had to hook up. They won't tell
Speaker:you that, but nine times out of ten,
Speaker:that's what they have because the job was
Speaker:already designed. For them in the
Speaker:beginning. They just had to go through the
Speaker:formality. So let's talk about that a
Speaker:little bit. I know we winded down on our
Speaker:time, but that's important. I'm really
Speaker:glad you said that. Because to me, as a
Speaker:military spouse, we understand that there
Speaker:are some unwritten things that go on in
Speaker:our culture and that certain jobs are left
Speaker:for certain spouses of certain key
Speaker:leaders. And so even though those jobs are
Speaker:open and available for a short period of
Speaker:time, or they may never close. Like it's
Speaker:just always open. But you got 99,000
Speaker:spouses applying, but nobody's getting the
Speaker:job. I really love that you said that. So
Speaker:to help other military spouses, military
Speaker:dependents, don't get discouraged if your
Speaker:resume if you're not picked up for
Speaker:certain. You know, as Francetta just said,
Speaker:sometimes those positions have been
Speaker:designed specifically for a particular
Speaker:individual, but the law got to be
Speaker:followed. Yes. They got to open it. They
Speaker:got to accept applications. Yes. And
Speaker:normally I can read a job announcement and
Speaker:tell you what rank that job announcement
Speaker:is for because I really pause them. I'm
Speaker:like, okay, no, that's not what they read.
Speaker:Okay. This is for this level of
Speaker:individual. Because I had a client, it was
Speaker:funny, I did a resume for her and she
Speaker:wanted to apply for a position, and I
Speaker:guess she was testing me and I didn't
Speaker:know, so I told her the rank it was for
Speaker:and she said, that's funny because that is
Speaker:for my colonel. That's his position out
Speaker:there. They're not going to pick anyone
Speaker:but him. Yep. So, again, don't get
Speaker:discouraged because of that. It is little
Speaker:tricks that you have to do in USA jobs,
Speaker:whereas before you did not have to and
Speaker:people are going to say, well, don't say
Speaker:that. Yes, you need to know that. You need
Speaker:to know that upright. Yes. Because if you
Speaker:don't, you will not make a list most of
Speaker:the time and depending on that resume and
Speaker:how you answer questions. So you have to
Speaker:know what you want and make sure that when
Speaker:you put that resume out there, that you
Speaker:check the check mark that says searchable
Speaker:because I've had too many people tell me,
Speaker:ms. Dyer, I'm not making the referral
Speaker:list. And when I go look at everything,
Speaker:they don't even have a check mark checked
Speaker:to make their resume. Searchable.
Speaker:Searchable. Okay, that's real good. Look,
Speaker:y'all, we have been having a great
Speaker:conversation. I see we had a couple of
Speaker:more people pop in. Ms. Lori, thank you
Speaker:for coming onto the live. Chris Sanders,
Speaker:my brother, thank you for coming on the
Speaker:live. We've got a few more Facebook users
Speaker:that have come into the conversation. We
Speaker:appreciate you. Miss Lachelle Atkins,
Speaker:America super mom and fellow military
Speaker:spouse, thank you for coming into the
Speaker:live. I hope you guys have been blessed by
Speaker:this conversation. Ms. Francetta has been
Speaker:dropping tools, usable, practical tools,
Speaker:y'all, military family, y'all need this
Speaker:information. Family members of other
Speaker:military families, you all get this in
Speaker:their hands. I really love how you just
Speaker:broke that down and reading the position.
Speaker:My sister in law is a relatively new
Speaker:military spouse to me. My brother in law
Speaker:hasn't been active duty very long and she
Speaker:had applied for a couple of positions and
Speaker:she was discouraged because she couldn't
Speaker:understand. She was overqualified for some
Speaker:of the positions and we had a
Speaker:conversation. And what we ended up talking
Speaker:about in that conversation is exactly what
Speaker:you just said, baby, this was written for
Speaker:a particular person. Don't be discouraged.
Speaker:You saw it, and then it was gone for a
Speaker:reason. It's not that you didn't qualify
Speaker:because you're not you're not capable of
Speaker:doing the job. It wasn't meant for anybody
Speaker:else. But it's two things that you need to
Speaker:remember, okay? Make the resume
Speaker:searchable, but if you should happen to
Speaker:get the hookup, please go back and do a
Speaker:resume that is a USA job. Resume. Resume.
Speaker:What happens if the person who hooked you
Speaker:up decides to leave and you don't like
Speaker:that position no more and you have a
Speaker:crappy resume? Come on, you better talk
Speaker:about it. So you might as well go ahead,
Speaker:pay someone, go free, but do something and
Speaker:have it professional, because that's a
Speaker:representation of you. So if you want to
Speaker:be lazy and give a two page resume that
Speaker:looks like crap that represents you, that
Speaker:don't represent them, because then when
Speaker:you get tired of that position, you still
Speaker:got to go back and get a resume done. And
Speaker:you could have done it right the first
Speaker:time. Right the first time. Even you make
Speaker:me think about especially those that are
Speaker:stationed overseas, not that Spousal
Speaker:preference doesn't work in country, but
Speaker:that's usually and please correct me if
Speaker:I'm wrong, but that's usually something
Speaker:that's a really big thing when we're
Speaker:overseas. And if you've got that position
Speaker:under Spousal preference and you got the
Speaker:hookup and your service member, either ETS
Speaker:is because they got a job and you stayed
Speaker:in country, or they retired and got a job
Speaker:with Sofa agreement and you stayed in
Speaker:country, and now you have to reapply for
Speaker:your job. Yes. Well, it's not even
Speaker:reapplying because you have to, again, see
Speaker:if your management is willing to see if
Speaker:they can get you on your own status. And
Speaker:that normally means that you have to
Speaker:reapply for your job. And if you're not in
Speaker:the top three and a vet blocks you, you
Speaker:could lose your job. So normally they'll
Speaker:just close it out. They wanted me to get
Speaker:my status, and I was a management analyst,
Speaker:and two veterans blocked me, but they
Speaker:really hadn't been doing the job. A lot of
Speaker:times, servicemen would just put stuff on
Speaker:their resume so they can make the list. So
Speaker:they can make the list of them. They still
Speaker:active duty, and I think that's why they
Speaker:start putting different rules into place.
Speaker:But it allowed them also to see where
Speaker:their grade level was as well. And if
Speaker:their resume was good to go, then they
Speaker:just put it aside. The second thing is
Speaker:this. Just because you don't get on a
Speaker:referral list, you need to check why they
Speaker:told you you didn't make it. This is a
Speaker:free gym now. Not going to do it. Look she
Speaker:doesn't gave you a lot of free gyms
Speaker:tonight. So you all better reach out to
Speaker:her when she give you her contact
Speaker:information that's no need to ask. So
Speaker:really what happened was one of my
Speaker:clients, they told her she didn't make the
Speaker:list. I looked at it and I was like go ask
Speaker:them this specific question. And she did,
Speaker:she got her twelve. Come on, look at that.
Speaker:I'm telling you. Is this just because they
Speaker:tell you they don't do some homework? Get
Speaker:off your butt. This is your resume, this
Speaker:is your career path and do some work. Yes.
Speaker:Come on. Don't just rely on USA job and
Speaker:someone telling you that you didn't
Speaker:qualify. Go back and look and say hold on,
Speaker:I do have this, I do have that. Here you
Speaker:go. Yes, it is important that you
Speaker:understand that because if you don't many
Speaker:people have let individuals tell them they
Speaker:didn't make the list and they leave it at
Speaker:that. My clients, no, I give them
Speaker:questions to ask so they understand if
Speaker:they truly didn't make it. And some of
Speaker:them have come back to say, ms. Daya, I
Speaker:got the job because they didn't see this,
Speaker:this or this. Yes, it's accountability as
Speaker:well. When you're doing resumes with me
Speaker:and I'm talking to the whole family,
Speaker:everybody is held accountable and that's
Speaker:very important. And another thing is that
Speaker:when you on USA jobs, I know you all like
Speaker:to have 15 different resumes, but you have
Speaker:to pick one resume to have searchable.
Speaker:Just understand that it has to be only one
Speaker:resume wisely. Remember the reason why I
Speaker:said that you need to come have a meeting
Speaker:with me to find out that answer. But you
Speaker:need to have one resume searchable.
Speaker:Searchable. Look you all, this has been
Speaker:the most impactful interview that I've
Speaker:had. Like, I've had several great
Speaker:interviews in this 2023 that the Lord has
Speaker:made. But this right here has been truly
Speaker:impactful because just as the military
Speaker:family, because of the prevalence of
Speaker:homelessness is your motivation the same
Speaker:thing with me as a military spouse? My
Speaker:motivation is there was a lot of years
Speaker:that I was a military spouse and could not
Speaker:figure out why. I couldn't get a GS job, I
Speaker:couldn't get a NAV job, I couldn't get a
Speaker:wage grade job. Then I switched over to
Speaker:contracting. I couldn't get a contracting
Speaker:job until somebody sat down and gave me
Speaker:some wisdom and gave me an opportunity,
Speaker:opened a door for us. I went ten years
Speaker:thinking I wasn't good enough to get into
Speaker:these jobs. It really messed with my head
Speaker:until somebody took the time, as they say,
Speaker:put me on game and then I got into these
Speaker:positions. So I'm very passionate about
Speaker:giving information and being a point of
Speaker:contact for military spouses. You don't
Speaker:have to have that struggle. You do not
Speaker:have to have that struggle that a lot of
Speaker:military spouses have today because they
Speaker:don't understand how the system works.
Speaker:Yes, they don't know how to work within
Speaker:it. So you all look, get in contact with
Speaker:Francetta. There is no excuse. There is no
Speaker:excuse. She already told you she's going
Speaker:to give you 30 minutes for free and in the
Speaker:30 minutes you're going to want to make
Speaker:the investment. Look, she didn't gave you
Speaker:I can't see because I'm on this phone you
Speaker:all she gave us about 47 minutes for free.
Speaker:Let's say she didn't gave us 45 count of
Speaker:two minutes for my little commercial. No,
Speaker:but also you can go to my website and get
Speaker:a free professional resume. My daughter
Speaker:went and did a free professional resume
Speaker:and she got her job at a really good
Speaker:night. Well, a very Fortune 500 company.
Speaker:Come on. You said that's a free resume.
Speaker:Yes, a free resume is on my. You don't got
Speaker:no excuses now. But once you need to reach
Speaker:out to me because I'm going to train you
Speaker:on how to use it and show you some other
Speaker:areas that can help you look for a job as
Speaker:well. Listen, come on now. Ms. Candy
Speaker:Martin, thank you for popping in the line.
Speaker:Candy says she done shared this in her
Speaker:group and she has an amazing group on
Speaker:Facebook. Y'all, look, share this more,
Speaker:y'all, that's popping in on the live and
Speaker:the replay. Share this to as many people
Speaker:as possible because it's going to be a
Speaker:blessing in more ways than you know,
Speaker:because it got to a point where it wasn't
Speaker:even about the financial need that we had
Speaker:or didn't have. It really had to do with
Speaker:my mental and spiritual well being. Where
Speaker:this is why my service member is growing
Speaker:in rank. Our family is growing. I got the
Speaker:education, I'm doing these things. Lord,
Speaker:what is happening? I didn't understand the
Speaker:system. This is going to be so much more
Speaker:of a blessing, way greater than money that
Speaker:you were being able to give to a military
Speaker:family by hitting that share button. It's
Speaker:free. You all hit the Share button. It's
Speaker:free. It don't cost nothing. It takes like
Speaker:3 seconds. Click share and send it to
Speaker:somebody. We got Miss Linda Gray just
Speaker:popped in. Hello, Miss Linda. Thank you.
Speaker:And thank you for the LinkedIn family that
Speaker:has popped in. She says yes, this is such
Speaker:a blessing. Her husband served in Vietnam
Speaker:and her daughter is a disabled veteran.
Speaker:And this information is valuable.
Speaker:Absolutely, Ms. Linda. This information is
Speaker:valuable. Look, Ms. Francetta, what is
Speaker:your contact information? How can the
Speaker:people reach out to you and get on your
Speaker:calendar? You can find me on LinkedIn.
Speaker:Francetta Dyer. You can go to my website,
Speaker:www vetechbusiness. Vetechbusiness
Speaker:servicesalloneword.com connect with me on
Speaker:Instagram is the same thing. Franketta
Speaker:Dyer. And then if you want to talk to me
Speaker:on LinkedIn, reach out to me. Again, it's
Speaker:a free resume there for the whole family.
Speaker:So even if you don't use my services, have
Speaker:a conversation with me, and I will leave
Speaker:you with some tips that can help you get a
Speaker:career. Because, again, I don't do jobs. I
Speaker:do careers. So I don't believe in hopping
Speaker:around unless it's a know that I'm very
Speaker:excited know, helping the military.
Speaker:Awesome. Awesome. Ms. Francetta. Thank you
Speaker:again. I really appreciate your yes. And
Speaker:your patience. And I know absolutely
Speaker:without a shadow of a doubt why the enemy
Speaker:was fighting this conversation. Okay.
Speaker:Thank you. I know why the enemy was
Speaker:fighting this conversation. It has been
Speaker:such a blessing to have you. Before we go,
Speaker:is there anything else that you would like
Speaker:to share with the Toolbox audience? The
Speaker:one thing I would like to share is before
Speaker:you even transition, start looking at
Speaker:yourself as someone that has value in
Speaker:different positions in your family. Just
Speaker:because you're transitioning doesn't mean
Speaker:that you're not valued anymore because you
Speaker:service them. Just because you transition
Speaker:over. You are still important to us. Come
Speaker:on. Remember 911? We remember it well to
Speaker:every service member. Vietnam. My father
Speaker:was World War II. He had PTSD. My mother
Speaker:taught us how to handle it when he was
Speaker:sleep because he would still have
Speaker:conversations. And the thing that I love
Speaker:most about doing this job is you, all the
Speaker:service members and their families
Speaker:understand that you still have value. Yes.
Speaker:You still have a mission. You still have a
Speaker:purpose. Yes. Don't let no one a recruiter
Speaker:tell you that because they take 10 seconds
Speaker:to look at your resume that you're not
Speaker:qualified. Come on. Because, again, maybe
Speaker:if they would take a little bit more time
Speaker:with some of our service members and
Speaker:military spouses, they wouldn't be having
Speaker:turnovers right now in these different
Speaker:companies. Let's talk about it. I'm going
Speaker:to always push for the military family,
Speaker:and I'm always going to push for us having
Speaker:employment. Military spouses, you have a
Speaker:voice, speak it. Come on. Yes. That is so
Speaker:wonderful. Look, y'all, we're going to
Speaker:have to have Ms. Francetta on for a part
Speaker:two. As long as you open, SIS. I'm open.
Speaker:We're going to have to have you back. Yes.
Speaker:We're going to have to have you back on
Speaker:for a part two, because that right there
Speaker:was a mic drop. I don't think a lot of
Speaker:people realize how when you've spent 20,
Speaker:30, 40 years of service as a family and
Speaker:then you come into the civilian world, how
Speaker:that impacts your total self, especially
Speaker:in the area of knowing I have value. My
Speaker:value did not decrease simply because I'm
Speaker:no longer serving my country in this
Speaker:capacity. Correct. I'm no longer serving.
Speaker:But I still am that same valuable person
Speaker:that I was when I was sitting in these
Speaker:command positions. And even as a military
Speaker:spouse, if I'm transitioning and you've
Speaker:discovered in this transition you can no
Speaker:longer keep that GS, that nap, that
Speaker:contracting or whatever, and you go home
Speaker:to your small town America and you're
Speaker:know, who am I? What value do I have to
Speaker:bring? What can I do? No, we have value
Speaker:always. We have value always. I love it. I
Speaker:love it. Thank you so much Ms. Francetta.
Speaker:Y'all, I know this broadcast looked a
Speaker:little strange because I'm on this camera
Speaker:and normally I'd be putting some things in
Speaker:the chat, but don't worry about it. I'm
Speaker:going to go back and make sure that all of
Speaker:Ms. Francetta's contact information is in
Speaker:the comment section of everywhere that
Speaker:we're broadcasting live to. So if you
Speaker:didn't get it, check the chat. If you did
Speaker:not get it, check the chat. Give me about
Speaker:30 minutes. You all to get to everything,
Speaker:to all these places, we stream it, but all
Speaker:of her information will be out there and I
Speaker:highly recommend, rewatching, share and
Speaker:reach out to Ms. Francetta. I see that Ms.
Speaker:Linda says ms. Francetta, thank you for
Speaker:encouragement. Laquita, thank you for your
Speaker:platform and she will share as well. Thank
Speaker:you so much Ms. Linda. Yes, we appreciate
Speaker:you. We appreciate you. Look guys, it has
Speaker:been a blessing. I don't want to overrun
Speaker:my time with Ms. Francitta because I'm
Speaker:trying to get her to agree to come back on
Speaker:for a part two so she can share some more
Speaker:wisdom and reemphasize this wisdom.
Speaker:Because I know for me, watching the replay
Speaker:is great, but I like to ask questions to
Speaker:people so we might reshare some of this
Speaker:information again and give the people who
Speaker:didn't get a chance to catch it live this
Speaker:time. An opportunity to catch you live
Speaker:next time and get some questions answered.
Speaker:Amen. Amen. Well, listen, you all be
Speaker:blessed and have an amazing rest of your
Speaker:evening. Take care. Everything hinges on
Speaker:identity. It is the compass of our faith
Speaker:that aligns with the Holy Spirit to
Speaker:fulfill the Father's will. Wrapped up in
Speaker:identity is who we are, the purpose of our
Speaker:being, and every God breathed promise that
Speaker:manifests as our success. Hello, I'm
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