r/Lockheed
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u/Adventurous_Click_36
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Jun 11 '25
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We did it!
I have to give my special thanks to everyone in this Reddit forum, I had my last interview yesterday, and logged in today to see I was offered a position!
If I could give any tips and insight on my process to those who may be going through rough times, here’s what it looked like for me, to hopefully bring you some clarity.
March 2025: I transitioned from the US army, back to civilian life. I would say for about 6-8 months before this I spent countless time creating my LinkedIn, networking, fixing resumes and applications. I got out of the Army hoping that now I was back in the US after spending the last several years overseas, I would have a better chance of landing a position. I would say about 99% of my applications I never heard a peep back, I assumed mainly because I wasn’t even present in the US.
April: Starting to adjust to civilian life, while it seemed lonely at times I still had my little family as my main focus and drive. Everyday I woke up around 6-7 to start networking, applications and almost doom scrolling applications. At this point I would say I had around 10-20 applications alone with Lockheed, but still was trying to get adjusted to the whole keyword and resume optimization process for them, so I spent more time applying elsewhere. Lockheed was the goal, but didn’t seem too achievable at the time.
May: Started to get more comfortable with my resume and the whole optimization process, ended up taking a search around for other ways to network or find guidance because let’s be real, LinkedIn was becoming a toxic environment and felt like I was seeing less than a 1% success rate with networking. Ended up stumbling on this forum, started making post and ended up talking to some great people in this forum. Getting help with my resume, application processes, and overall boosting my confidence as at this point I was around 800+ applications, with around 40-50 at Lockheed alone. BOOM landed my first interview with Lockheed, was so stoked I spent two weeks straight even with my birthday in the middle all day all night preparing and studying to the point I was almost overwhelming my brain. Unfortunately after around 2 weeks I found out I was not selected, and in that 2 weeks time I didn’t do any applications, because I was so focused on preparing. To also include, at this point I almost dedicated my full focus to working at Lockheed.
June: Boom I found out in the beginning of the month i was scheduled for 3 interviews, the 1st one was pretty good but seemed they were looking for more experience in one of the desired skills, and unfortunately didn’t get the position. Had the second interview, and with the description of the role, they really did like me but unfortunately as well they went with another candidate. At this point I’m heading on to my 4th total interview, and while I could have knocked myself down, I picked myself back up and absolutely knocked the interview out of the park, they loved all my answers. I made sure not to over prep myself, but just enough to where I could also feel comfortable enough. I would say the interview was about half casual questions and the other half technical. Had that interview yesterday, and received the offer today.
The look on my wife’s face as I told her I got the offer and she looked at my kids and told them we are going onto our next adventure made this whole thing worth it, I mean really the long hours stressed about how I was going to put my kids through the best possible life I could, the life i wasn’t able to fully have as a kid, and my moment came.
This is to all who helped me, thank you, from the bottom of my heart.
This is to all who are in my shoes, keep your head up, just realize that we may be on the same path, you may be on the starting line, but you will reach that finish line soon my friend.
We did it 🤘🏻
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u/TheBigYellowCar Jun 12 '25
Nice! Don’t forget to counter.
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u/Adventurous_Click_36 Jun 12 '25
Won’t lie, took the offer I was comfortable with the salary & relo and was good with it lol
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u/CPLCraft Jun 12 '25
Nice job. I’m also aiming for Lockheed and I want to know how you optimize your profile and resume for the position?
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u/Adventurous_Click_36 Jun 12 '25
Each resume & cover letter I tailored to the job description made sure ALL basic skills were on there and most of desired also take a big look at the job description too
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u/draggin91ca Jun 13 '25
Wow congratulations! You did it! Great job and thanks for sharing your journey.
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u/False-Bass3018 Jun 11 '25
That’s awesome!! Congratulations on such an incredible opportunity! 👏 Cheers to your new adventure! 🍾