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Hands-on coaching, from resumé to signed offer.

Everything below is built around your clearance, your specialty, and your timeline — not a template. Pick the level of support that fits where you are.

What I help with

The work, piece by piece.

01

Education Benefits

VR&E vs. GI Bill and which to spend first. Picking a school where the BAH math works in your favor. Getting certs funded through Army COOL at your base education center. And if you're 100% P&T, confirming the loan discharge you're entitled to actually went through. See VR&E support →

02

Certification Study Guides

Written guides for the five certifications that show up most often in cleared job requirements. Sold separately or included with the Offer Partner package, with a free downloadable preview of each so you can judge the quality first. See the study guides →

03

Resumé Building

Clearance and status in the header, your MOS translated into titles screeners can match, and your service written as outcomes a hiring manager can price.

04

Job Search Strategy

Which contractors actually hire your specialty at your clearance level, and where those openings get filled: cleared job boards, cleared career fairs, and recruiters who search databases instead of posting ads.

05

Interview Preparation

Mock interviews with feedback, plus practice describing classified work in enough detail to impress without crossing a line. That last part is where generic coaches come up short.

06

Salary Negotiation

Cleared roles carry a premium; most people never ask for it. You'll walk into the final call with a researched range and the exact words to use.

Veteran Readiness & Employment

The benefit most veterans never spend.

VR&E can pay for the training that changes your career, and a lot of eligible veterans never open the application. Here is what the program is, and where I can help.

What VR&E Is, In Plain Terms

Start here, because this is the mix-up I correct more than any other: VR&E is not a second GI Bill. Most veterans who ask me about it are treating the two as interchangeable pots of school money, and a good number pass on VR&E entirely because they assume the GI Bill already covers whatever it would. That assumption costs people real money and, more often, the wrong benefit spent first.
Veteran Readiness and Employment, the program most people still call Chapter 31 or Voc Rehab, is a VA program for service members and veterans whose service-connected disability limits their ability to work. The GI Bill is an education entitlement: you earned it, you pick a school, and it pays toward the degree. VR&E is an employability program. Its purpose is not to send you to school. Its purpose is to get you into suitable employment your disability doesn't undercut, and training only gets funded when it is the route to the employment goal written into your plan.
That distinction is not semantics. It is the structure of the program. VR&E runs five support-and-services tracks, and only one of them is school:
  • Reemployment — returning to the job you held before service, with accommodations
  • Rapid Access to Employment — you already have marketable skills and need placement, not a classroom
  • Self-Employment — building a business around what you can sustain
  • Employment Through Long-Term Services — the education and training track, and the one most people think is the whole program
  • Independent Living — for veterans where work isn't currently feasible
Which means the conversation with your counselor is a conversation about employment, not about which school you like. Come in with a degree plan and no vocational goal behind it and you'll stall. Come in with a specific job you're aiming at, evidence that the field is hiring, and a clear line from your disability to why your old career no longer works, and the training tends to follow. Once a plan is approved, the program funds what that plan requires:
  • Tuition, fees, and the books and supplies your approved plan requires
  • A monthly subsistence allowance while you train, at the Chapter 31 rate or, if you qualify, the Post-9/11 GI Bill housing rate
  • Equipment your program depends on, along with certification exam fees
  • Career counseling, resumé work, job placement help, and workplace accommodations once you're hired
  • Support for self-employment, and independent living services for veterans who can't currently work
Eligibility is decided by a Vocational Rehabilitation Counselor at the VA, and by no one else. In general you need a service-connected disability rating and a finding that it creates a barrier to employment. The application is VA Form 28-1900, and you can file it online, by mail, in person at a regional office, or through an accredited representative. Read the program straight from the source before you talk to anyone about it: Veteran Readiness and Employment on VA.gov →
Most requested

VR&E Entitlement Support

$100 / one-time
Everything from deciding whether to apply through walking into your first counselor meeting prepared.
  • An honest read on whether you're likely to qualify, before you spend the time
  • What to gather first: rating decision, DD-214, medical records, work history
  • How to describe your employment handicap accurately and in the language the VA uses
  • What actually happens at orientation and the comprehensive evaluation
  • A vocational goal worth proposing, and the reasoning to back it up
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Counselor Request Letters

$30 / letter
A written, customized request you can send your VRC for the school equipment your program requires.
  • Written for your specific program, your plan, and your counselor
  • Each item tied to a documented requirement of your training
  • Short, specific, and justified, in the format counselors respond to
  • Delivered within two business days, one revision included
  • Additional letters at the same rate as your plan develops
Request a letter

What I can and can't promise. I am not a VA employee, not a VA-accredited representative, and not affiliated with the VA. I don't decide eligibility, and I can't influence it. Nothing here is a guarantee that you'll be found eligible for VR&E, that your counselor will approve any particular piece of equipment, or that your plan will be written on any timeline. Those calls belong to the VA alone.

You should also know that accredited Veterans Service Organization representatives, claims agents, and attorneys can help you apply at no cost, and staff at a VA regional office will help you complete the form for free. If that's the right route for you, take it. I'd rather tell you that than take your money.

What you're paying for here is preparation. I made this transition myself as a 35F with a TS/SCI, earned five certifications on the Army's dime on my way out, and now work in federal cyber risk. I know what these applications look like when they're thin, and I know what a counselor needs to hear before they can act. If you want someone who has actually walked out the gate and into this industry sitting with you before your appointment, this is the most direct help you're going to find.

Pricing

Pick the level of support that fits where you are.

Three packages, from a sharpened resumé to help through the full transition. VR&E Entitlement Support and Counselor Request Letters are priced separately, further up this page.

Resumé Ready

$350 / one-time
A clearance-forward resumé and LinkedIn built to get past screeners.
  • 1:1 intake call
  • Clearance-forward resumé
  • LinkedIn profile rewrite
  • One revision round
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Offer Partner

$3,500 / engagement
Full support from first call through signed offer.
  • Everything in Interview Ready
  • Full benefits strategy: VR&E, GI Bill, school & BAH
  • VR&E Entitlement Support included
  • All five certification study guides
  • Unlimited interview coaching
  • Offer & salary negotiation
  • Weekly check-ins until hired
  • 90 days of support
Become a partner

Not sure which package fits?

That's exactly what the free 20-minute call is for. Tell me where you are and I'll give you a straight answer — including "you don't need me" if that's the truth.