So Wonwee

What are the rules of the road for availability for interview if you are not currently planning on deploying, but you might? Does anyone have any experience with getting a call for an interview and being on the road?

For availabilty for hire can you put a date during your terminal leave?

ExAF

Put when you are available for employment on the resume. If you are on terminal leave then you are available if you are willing to start work with a new employer at that time. As far as interviews go, let them call and then worry about working out your availability for the interview. Most will work with you if you can't make the first attempt. Get your foot in the door first. Good luck...ExAF

KiloAlpha

Per APC:

Resume DON'Ts

Citing "availability" unless it's nonstandard (military, or more than a month away)

Spongebob

I would put the date you're willing to work on there. That's standard for a military resume.

My experience:
US airlines: they'll work with you...see my Cargo360 posts in upstarts. For the others, I had choices for dates. I even pushed Comair back a month and a half. Most understand the military and will hire you and you'll get back to them when you can/want to start.
Foreign: I had to turn down a July interview with Cathay Pacific due to being TAD. Never got called back even though I have kept everything updated with them. I did have a "sponsor" there that I might have burned by turning down the first one, not sure though.
Non-Flying: Nobody will talk to you until you're within 3 months of getting out at the earliest. Way tough on the nerves. BTW, CitationShares pushed my in person interview back until I was a month out after I had made it through round 3 on the phone.

HTH, feel free to PM. I'm out of the Navy in Dec, and I interviewed/was hired for flying jobs but am going to a non-flying job so I have plenty of gouge.
Spongebob

MayFly135s

For those with flexible separation dates from the military, is it acceptable to indicate “2 Months Notice Required” or better to have an actual available for employment date?

Spongebob

I would part a hard date on there, as it shows a commitment to actually getting out as opposed to "seeing what's out there". They're not going to want to set up for a start date only to have you sent TDY somewhere and your departure date pushed back.

My command reneged on my terminal leave and sent me TAD for 1/2 of it, but I had not advertised being available before then. You can usually start early if it works out...but to be honest, the terminal leave is nice as it's proving to not be as easy as anticipated to leave (way much paperwork).

My $.02
Spongebob

MayFly135s

Thanks Sopngebob! I will used my established DOS and just let potential employers know I can be available sooner via interviews.

Looking for everyones 2 cents on resume addresses. For those of us that are still overseas we can use...

- Military APO AE address (USPS but no FedEx, UPS packages)
- Actual residence in Europe (Can receive all mail, but pricey to send)
- Permanent address in the US. (Can also receive all via my family)

Obviously there are pros and cons to all, but we were wondering what is the most acceptable solution?

fedupbusdriver

I would put my EU address as my current address, and the US address as a "permanent" address (one which you could always be contacted from through relatives). I don't think the airlines care how expensive it is to mail to the EU.