Building Confidence through MOAA’s Career Counseling Lisa Aszklar MOAA Member Spouse Since 2012.


Lisa is like many military spouses. She has a great education – a bachelor’s degree in business and a master’s degree in professional writing and editing – and plenty of experience, but not as a full-time employee. When the USS Cole was bombed in 2000, it stirred her to volunteer. She started with Navy-Marine Corps Relief Society (NMCRS) that autumn as their publicity chair before taking a short break to concentrate on her master’s. Lisa resumed her work with NMCRS and finished her degree. She has been with them ever since as a part-time freelancer. But in 2012 she needed help to launch a full-time career.


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“You’d be surprised what a hit self-confidence takes when you don’t have years of a 9-to-5 job behind you,” she explains. “You feel like you’re already at a bit of a disadvantage and even more so in a tough economy.” Lisa came to MOAA, met with the director of MOAA’s Career Services, CAPT Jim Carman, USN (Ret), and found not only a professional career counselor – but also a friend. “Jim took his time, was thorough, and helped craft my résumé in a way that, even as a writer, I could not have done on my “own,” she says. “My résumé now more clearly represents my skill sets, my abilities, and my career goals. Employers can easily zero in on my abilities and how I will meet their needs.”


“The career services offered by MOAA for servicemembers, both former and retired, and their spouses are the best value for that membership. Absolutely incomparable,” she says. “I can’t say enough good things about MOAA. I wish we had joined years ago.”


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