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Your survey question about what is most important is disappointing. A more relevant set of choice could have been: 
 
 
 
“What's most import to you in a new job?” 
 
• Making a valuable contribution to company objectives 
 
• Delivering exceptional service to clients/customers 
 
• Maintaining high ethical standards 
 
• Applying knowledge and skills to solve difficult business problems 
 
• Mentoring others 
 
• Helping customers solve their business problems 
 
• Contributing in a significant way to improving society 
 
• Problem solving 
 
• Developing new technology 
 
• Saving lives 
 
• Bringing order to chaos 
 
• Inspiring others to achieve their best 
 
• Build cohesive teams that can together attain great accomplishments 
 
 
 
Frankly, there are a lot of military (and civilian) folk who just expect to be competitively compensated for their work. The question about compensation and benefits are not helpful to employers or candidates in determining job attractiveness or fit. 
 
 
 
As for whether it is harder or easier for military to get a job, how would anyone in the military know whom to compare themselves? Besides, such comparisons are meaningless and not helpful. Lack of knowledge of how civilian companies operate, lack of appreciating their own strengths, not knowing how to find a company need that they can satisfy, that’s what makes getting hired difficult. Is that unique to military? Probably not. On one hand, military have a relative disadvantage due to not knowing the civilian terrain. That can be counterbalanced though by superior ingenuity, devotion, dedication, leadership, teamwork, perseverance, energy, stamina, work ethic, dependability and a host of other common military personality strengths that can shine brightly in an interview, not to mention in certain industries, applicable knowledge. 
 
 
 
It would be great to see another survey more meaningful questions and responses.