A military to civilian resume builder for veterans of every branch. Enter your MOS, rating or AFSC and it fills in real resume bullets and the keywords employers search for — drawn from the same work behind the Skills Translator. Edit anything, then copy it out or save it as a PDF.
No account, no email, nothing sent anywhere. It saves in your browser as you type, so you can close this and come back.
Type your MOS, rating, AFSC, or the job title. Every branch, including retired codes.
Only what employers need. Leave out anything you would rather not share.
Put a civilian job title at the top, not your rank. A hiring manager scanning fifty resumes needs to know in one second what job you are applying for. “Sergeant, United States Army” does not tell them. “Operations Supervisor” does.
These bullets come from your code. Tick the ones that are true for you, then edit the numbers — the brackets are there for you to fill in.
Bullets change to match the responsibility you actually held.
Anything before, during, or since. Skip whatever does not apply.
If you hold a clearance, say so and say whether it is active. For a lot of employers that single line is the most valuable thing on the page, and an expired one is worth far less than a current one.
Most large employers filter resumes by software before a person reads one. These are the terms it looks for in your field. Tick the ones you can honestly claim.
Optional, but it is where you say the thing a resume cannot. Three paragraphs, already started from what you entered above. Edit any of them.
The middle paragraph is the whole letter. Anyone can describe their own experience. Almost nobody bothers to show they understand the company they are writing to, and it is obvious when you have. Spend your time there.
Find your code above and this fills in as you go.
None of these are about capability. They are all about a reader who has ninety seconds and no military background.
“Staff Sergeant” is a pay grade, not a role. The person reading has no idea whether that means you supervised two people or forty. Lead with what you did: Operations Supervisor, Maintenance Manager, Logistics Coordinator.
NCOIC, PMCS, AAR, S-4, TOC. Every one of these is invisible to a civilian reader and to the software that scans first. Write the thing out, or describe the function.
Responsible for is a job description. Employers are buying outcomes. What changed because you were there — how many people, how much equipment, what percentage, how much faster?
An Army Achievement Medal means nothing to someone who has never served. If an award is worth including, say what it was for: Recognized for rebuilding a maintenance program that raised equipment readiness from 62% to 94%.
NCOIC of maintenance section. Responsible for PMCS on assigned vehicles and equipment. Received AAM for outstanding performance.
Supervised an eight-person maintenance team responsible for 40 vehicles worth $6M. Rebuilt the inspection schedule and raised fleet availability from 62% to 94% in seven months.
Same person. Same job. The second one gets a call back.
Three paragraphs. Most veterans write five, and the extra two never help. Step 6 above starts the wording for you from what you already entered, and you edit from there.
Open with the job you want and the single most relevant thing you did — one sentence, with a number in it if you have one. Close with what you would bring, then ask for the conversation.
The middle paragraph is the one that decides it, and it is the one almost nobody writes: why this employer. What they build, where they are growing, something you actually noticed. Two sentences that prove you looked them up will put you ahead of most of the pile.
Most mid-size and large employers run resumes through applicant tracking software before a person sees them. It is not clever. It matches text against the job posting, and a resume that describes the right work in the wrong words scores low and is never read.
That is why this tool puts a keywords section in. Not to game anything — every term should be one you can defend in an interview — but because the phrasing employers use is not the phrasing the military uses, and nobody tells you that on the way out.
Two rules. Use the exact words from the posting where they are true for you. And never claim a skill to beat the filter; it works right up until someone asks about it.
The Skills Translator has more for your specific code — what the work maps to, which certifications open doors, and what the jargon should become.
Yes. No account, no email address, no trial that expires. HireAVeteran.org is run by Salute Veterans Inc., a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, and the tools are free because that is the point of them. Nothing you type is sent anywhere — it stays in your own browser.
Start with what the job actually was rather than what it was called. Enter your code above and the builder loads resume bullets written for that work, in the structure hiring managers scan for. Tick the ones that are true for you, replace the bracketed figures with your own numbers, and add anything the list missed.
Army MOS, Marine Corps MOS, Navy ratings and NECs, Air Force AFSCs and Coast Guard ratings — 9,479 codes in total, including retired ones. If you served in it, it is in here.
A civilian job title. Rank tells a hiring manager nothing about scope — they cannot tell whether a Staff Sergeant supervised two people or forty. Lead with Operations Supervisor, Maintenance Manager, Logistics Coordinator, then let the bullets show the scale.
Yes. The Save as PDF button prints just the resume, without the rest of the page. You can also copy the plain text version straight into a document or an online application.
If you know a veteran writing a resume, send them here. And if you run an organization, recruit, or just want to help — ready-made graphics and wording are on the share page, free to use, no permission needed.