Episodes

Show Notes | August 16, 2021 | Episode 115 Are you actively searching for a job or actively career climbing? If so, you should be sharing and engaging with content about the industry you are interested in several times a week. You want to bring relative, career-related information to LinkedIn because your future boss and colleagues will likely see it. Did you know under the Activity tab, a future employer can see everything you have liked, commented on, shared and created? Here's a good rule of ...

Show Notes | August 9, 2021 | Episode 114 On LinkedIn there is a technique to acquiring an impressive list of recommendations. There is also a technique to building high quantities of endorsements on a limited number of skill sets. All we're asking is for a little reciprocity. Reciprocity simply means giving and receiving. And on LinkedIn, it should go in that order. If you give a great recommendation, all you're asking in return, honey, is to get one on your LinkedIn profile. It's fun. It's eas...

Show Notes | August 2, 2021 | Episode 113 People are going to look you up on LinkedIn. End of discussion. When they get to your profile, what you choose to include or omit will either strengthen your position as an expert in your field or confuse the visitor. You must be careful about what you include in education, work experience, skills and even your accomplishments. It all directly impacts how you are endorsed. How you show up in the algorithm. And what a recruiter or hiring manager might thi...

Show Notes | July 26, 2021 | Episode 112 Your About section on LinkedIn is like your open cover letter to the world. This is where you get to show off your personality and your career highlights. We're teaching you a 3-part formula to cultivate the RIGHT message that will intrigue hiring managers and invite recruiters to contact you. Tune in to learn the formula! We're also breaking down and dissecting an example for each of the three components. When you're finished and you've completed your Ab...

Show Notes | July 19, 2021 | Episode 111 Did you know the human brain can process images 60,000 times faster than text? Then, it's no surprise that your LinkedIn profile should have some stellar photos! That includes your profile photo and your cover photo. Here are some more stats for you, a professional photo on LinkedIn gets 14 times more views than a candid photo, and about 90% of LinkedIn users are leaving their cover photo blank. Don't leave that advertising space untapped! Contrary to you...

Show Notes | July 12, 2021 | Episode 110 Get ready to accomplish the most important thing you can do to get your LinkedIn off the ground and moving in the right direction. We're showing you how to use your keywords to build your digital elevator pitch, which you'll use as your LinkedIn Headline. Now that the groundwork has been laid, it's time to start shaping your LinkedIn content. Defining who you are and what you want will set the tone for the rest of your profile. We have a secret formula to...

Show Notes | July 6, 2021 | Episode 109 Did you know you have your own set of custom keywords? These are the words that get you found by recruiters and hiring managers on the social search engine that is LinkedIn. Keywords are the things you are good at and how you get discovered on LinkedIn. We have a 3-step exercise that will help you discover your keywords, which will serve as the foundation of your LinkedIn profile and digital elevator pitch. Tune in now to uncover the keywords that belong t...

Show Notes | June 30, 2021 | Episode 108 It's time to get real, show up and let your authenticity shine! Before you can go after the remote career of your dreams, you've got to figure out what you really want - not only for your career, but out of life. Get ready to dig deep, we're doing some soul searching today. We're walking you through an interactive exercise to get to know who you really are, so you can tailor your LinkedIn profile to attract your ideal job and ultimately fulfill your life'...

VirtForce is making its online school Rocket Remote free to the military community. "I'm really excited about this transition because at VirtForce our goal is to get military spouses, transitioning service members and veterans #hired," said VirtForce founder Kimber Hill. "By removing this barrier of having to pay for this course, it's going to help a lot more people get their resumes ready, get interview ready and get LinkedIn ready, so that they stand a much better chance in the remote job mark...

Show Notes | June 22, 2021 | Episode 107 Many people make the mistake of keeping their LinkedIn profile very broad. Having too broad of a LinkedIn profile screams of desperation. It says, "I am in need of a job so badly I would take anything!" We want to flip the script and have an employer say, "I will give you any job you want at my company. I need you that badly." Here is what you need to go from a broad LinkedIn profile to a tailored one: Know your core values What you're good at What job yo...

Show Notes | June 15, 2021 | Episode 106 If your impression of LinkedIn is that it's a social media platform for working professionals, you're not totally wrong, but you're not 100% right. LinkedIn is actually a social search engine. In this course series, I'm teaching you everything you need to know about LinkedIn and how to do it right by creating a stellar LinkedIn profile. LinkedIn can play a huge part in your remote work journey. Some of VirtForce's largest hiring partners emphasis LinkedIn...

Show Notes | June 1, 2021 | Episode 105 Have you ever been caught in the experience paradox? It's when you can't get the required experience from not having enough years of experience in the first place. Frustrating! That's where milspouse Ellen Harrison found herself after staying home for 7 years to raise her small children. Same for Army wife Kimberly Grant-Holliday, who had gaps in her resume from frequent PCSs, all while homeschooling her 3 children. After discovering VirtForce, Ellen and K...

Show Notes | May 17, 2021 | Episode 104 Do you love planning for the future? Has working virtually for a banking, insurance or investment firm ever crossed your mind? Then, it may be time for you to become a certified financial planner, sell life insurance or get your Series 65 registration. Today, we have two guests to fill you in on the registrations and certs needed to be successful in this field. One comes from the corporate side and the other from the entrepreneurial side. Our first guest S...

Show Notes | May 10, 2021 | Episode 103 If you are looking for a side hustle (or a full career) that is perfect for virtual work look no further. Today, we’re talking about bookkeeping certifications that will get you #hired. Bookkeeping is an early adopter of the remote staff augmentation model. If you look at the past 5 to 10 years, companies realized they could be so much more profitable if they got rid of the expense of the office and let their team members work from home. With the organizat...

Show Notes | May 3, 2021 | Episode 102 What does laser tag have in common with landing a remote bookkeeping job? In this episode we’ll hear from Sara Core whose experience opening a family fun center made her a small business owner AND a remote employee at a Fortune 500 Best Places to Work company. In this installment of Certs That Get You #Hired we’re exploring two certifications in Finance that can make you more marketable, and if there’s one thing we’ve learned since digging into the remote w...

Show Notes | April 26, 2021 | Episode 101 This episode is sponsored by our military spouse employment partner Stay at Home Profit. What is the career certification that can make a one-man team feel like a robust department of 100 people firing on all cylinders? CRMs! That's Customer Relationship Management systems, a resource that tracks where a person or business is in the buying cycle. CRMs give companies a road map to know where the customer is and forecasts what their next move may be. They ...

Show Notes | April 19, 2021 | Episode 100 Are you ready to open doors you don’t realize exist? That’s how our guest describes the career certifications up for discussion this week as part of our ongoing series Certs That Get You #Hired, where we explore the certs you need to land that next promotion or salary bump. Today, we’re talking about 2 certifications that can be achieved in 30 days or less and increase your salary by 20% - that’s what happened to our host Kimber three months after she ob...

Show Notes | April 12, 2021 | Episode 99 This episode is sponsored by our military spouse employment partner Stay at Home Profit. What career field can have you earning 6 figures remotely and keep you employed for 10 years through 6 PCS’s? Technology! Lindsay Herald, a project engineer with Amazon, is with us today talking about how she became the primary bread winner for her family after earning two tech certifications. This top 10% female technology earner is going to tell you more about why C...

Show Notes | April 5, 2021 | Episode 98 This episode is sponsored by our military spouse employment partner Stay at Home Profit. Are you hesitating to pursue your next career certification due to cost or confusion about how to qualify for the exam? We’ve been there! You may be thinking how am I going to fund my next career advancement in the middle of a PCS, raising my kids or figuring out how to pivot my career? While certifications come with a fee, they are worth it! Certifications are an inve...

Show Notes | March 29, 2021 | Episode 97 This episode is sponsored by our military spouse employment partner Stay at Home Profit. After moving from South Africa to the United States as a military spouse, Anicia Myers wanted to explore remote career options. An experienced teacher with a post graduate certificate in education, Anicia was looking to pivot her career with a job that would move around the country with her. As she was looking for help with her remote job search, Anicia came across Vi...

Show Notes | March 22, 2021 | Episode 96 This episode is sponsored by our military spouse employment partner Stay at Home Profit. Getting told you have too much education and not enough experience is a hard place to be. That’s where Navy veteran Rachel McNary found herself when she used her GI benefits to go back to school to get a master’s degree in accounting after she took time out of the workforce to raise her children. With so many years out of the workforce and an advanced degree Rachel hi...

Show Notes | March 15, 2021 | Episode 95 After two years of looking for virtual work and many different jobs, Kate Nasser used VirtForce to land a virtual job that combines her love of teaching and science. Kate's background is in exercise physiology and biology. As a Marine Corps spouse of 10 years, she has moved around the country several times and had jobs ranging from being an exercise physiologist who does stress tests in a hospital to being a personal trainer. As a mom Kate used VirtForce ...

Show Notes | March 8, 2021 | Episode 94 VirtForce is partnering with a not traditionally remote company that is pivoting to offer virtual careers to military spouses. Travelers has always been committed to hiring from our nation’s military community, but with the COVID pandemic that effort has expanded to creating remote jobs specifically for milspouses. In this episode we speak with Jennifer White, Travelers’ Vice President of Talent Acquisition, who has been with Travelers for 17 years where s...

Show Notes | March 1, 2021 | Episode 93 Jolene McNutt has been working virtually since her son was born about a decade ago, but the contracts she had were unpredictable. She needed a job with more consistent hours. VirtForce inspired and encouraged Jolene to give the virtual job search another try after she failed to make it to the interview process in previous attempts. "I have not been fully immersed in a decade," Jolene said. "It was really hard to find positions that fit my qualifications. T...