OK,  so now you are leaving the armed forces, or have left the armed forces, and you need a new career. Although you may have used your resettlement to take you in one direction, is this really going to be what you do until retirement? Choosing a new career is not as easy and straight forward as you may think, as I found out. If I had known some of these really useful pointers at the time I might have got myself established...

The popular belief that armed forces personnel are just trained to mindlessly follow orders, even though modern warfare has effectively become a  high-tech, skilled game of chess is one that the armed forces is very keen to change. As civilian society recognises transferable, key skills and lifelong learning, the armed forces feels it has to persuade the world that ex forces personnel are extremely employable.  It also needs to convince...