For service members and veterans
Translate your MOS, rating, AFSC, rank, and additional duties into civilian titles, skills, and résumé bullets employers understand.
No account required. You confirm your experience. We don't score you.
Illustrative example
Use only the duties you performed.
IT — Information Systems Technician
IT Support Specialist / Network Technician
Training Petty Officer
Training Coordinator
3M System Coordinator
Planned Maintenance Coordinator
Try This Example loads Navy rating IT (Information Systems Technician) and these additional duties: Information Systems Security Officer (ISSO), Training Petty Officer (TPO), and 3M System Coordinator (3M). Information Systems Security Officer (ISSO) is loaded too and is not one of the three rows above. This is an example, not a record of your service.
No account required
Use the tool without creating an account.
Your experience. Your control.
You confirm what you want to include.
We transcribe, not score.
Clear, accurate civilian language.
Military experience translator
Three steps. Your entries stay when you move between them.
Example only. Review before using. Nothing here is added until you enter a code.
Select your branch and enter your job code.
Suggested civilian language shows here when a supported code is found.
Additional and collateral duties
Add training, safety, security, scheduling, supply, equipment, and leadership duties you actually held.
None selected.
Select your branch to see additional duties for that service.
Select your branch to see additional duties.
Say what it was called and what you did. This page suggests a civilian title, skills, and bullets from your words. Edit them before you add them. Blank details stay blank. This page does not invent figures.
Suggestions are built in this browser. They are not sent unless you later choose to send this duty for review.
Review this draft before you use it.
Additional duties stay under one military job. Edit or remove any skill or bullet. Keep only tools and skills you actually used. Empty fields stay marked until you fill them. The file matches this preview.
Still empty: Name, Command or employer, Job location, Service dates, City and state, Phone, Email.
[Summary appears when you add a job or duty.]
[Skills appear when you add a job or duty.]
[Command or employer] · [Location] · [Dates]
[Add a bullet you can support.]
[Add education you want on this resume.]
[Add a clearance or certification only if you hold it.]
Sample lines are marked Sample. Replace them with work you did. Not hiring eligibility and not a Department of Defense endorsement.
Drafting examples only. They are not hiring eligibility and not a Department of Defense endorsement.
Illustrative example
Use only the duties you performed.
IT — Information Systems Technician
IT Support Specialist / Network Technician
Training Petty Officer
Training Coordinator
3M System Coordinator
Planned Maintenance Coordinator
Try This Example loads Navy rating IT (Information Systems Technician) and these additional duties: Information Systems Security Officer (ISSO), Training Petty Officer (TPO), and 3M System Coordinator (3M). Information Systems Security Officer (ISSO) is loaded too and is not one of the three rows above. This is an example, not a record of your service.
Start with your military job. Then add the responsibilities that show what you actually did.
Team supervision, training, and scheduling.
Maintenance, supply, logistics, and watch responsibilities.
Safety, security, and programs you were assigned.
Add certifications or a clearance only if you hold them.
Use a free veteran résumé template, then describe your experience in civilian language.
Both files are a single column with no tables, which is easier for an applicant tracking system to read. That does not mean every hiring system will read them the same way. These downloads do not fill themselves from your translator selections.
DOCX
Editable DOCX with sample lines marked Sample and prompts for command or employer, location, and dates. It is not your draft.
DOCX
Editable DOCX with the same headings and empty prompts. You write every line.
Templates are separate files. Download My Résumé Draft matches the preview you reviewed. The starter and blank templates do not include the job you selected.
ApplyOptics was created by Tim Vaughan, a retired Navy Chief Petty Officer with 22 years of service, to help make military experience clearer to civilian employers.
Review suggested language and keep only what accurately reflects the work you performed.
You confirm what you actually did before using the output.
Job-code lookup runs in this browser and does not create an account. Wording suggestions for a duty you describe are built in this browser from what you type. A duty you add stays in this browser tab: a refresh keeps it, and closing the tab clears it. If you choose to send a duty for review, the duty name and civilian wording go to ApplyOptics for a person to read. Your name and email are not asked. They are not stored in the ApplyOptics database. If that review path is not set up, the page says nothing was sent. Name, phone, email, and clearance on the résumé draft are included only in the file you download.
Start with your military job. Add the rest of what you did.
