Here’s the “how to dos” so you can complete the “what to dos”?

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As military members, professionals at arms, reintegrate back into the civilian workforce, they’re told X things to do in their 3-day transition class. Things like “Write a resume”, “Target your resume”, “Find a mentor”, and “Stop speaking military/your military occupation”. They’re well meaning indeed, and heck, even necessary. But often lacking in detail

“I don’t know how my experience fits”.

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Military to Civilian Work Force Reintegration

That’s a statement I hear a lot in my work with the training and staffing team here at Vets2PM as we help thousands of military members become successful veteran project managers in the CIVDIV. I give them a little thought exercise, “thoughtEX”, by asking them to determine whether I am talking about their X

Cognates

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Military to Civilian Work Force Reintegration

Cognates “are words that are similar in two languages”, like ‘counseling session’ in the language of military leadership and ‘coaching session’ in the language of civilian management‘” (Wright, 2020). Another example of a cognate is “mission” and “project” because both share the definition of ‘a temporary endeavor undertaken to produce a unique good, service,

Solution Selling Goes Beyond Sales

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Professional Development

Solution Selling. It’s the best kind of selling to government, well, anyone for that matter, and it has application beyond sales. A great analogy is a related one, headaches. It’s what a lot of folks get when they think about a sales interaction. But what’s the solution, two aspirin. So, you listen, person

Veteran Hiring Myths…And Truths

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Military to Civilian Work Force Reintegration

Over the past nine years of helping thirteen thousand plus military veterans enter fantastic meaningful, lucrative post-Service project management careers in over one thousand companies, I have run into several widely-held, stubborn myths about us as a population. And they’re not true. And they’re detrimental to our hiring chances. Because of that,

Nature, Nurture, and the Veteran’s Creed?

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Military to Civilian Work Force Reintegration

Yep! As I was leaving the local Boathouse store buying supplies to work on a small project on my sailboat Pegasus, I looked up and saw these colors flying proudly from a multi-yard armed nautical flag pole against a gorgeous Space Coast Florida sky. You see our nation’s Stars and Stripes, our great

Value through Capability gets Lost in Translation

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Military to Civilian Work Force Reintegration

Think about how difficult it is just to survive in a land where you don’t know the language, much less thrive. It’s extremely difficult at best right! Yet this is the challenge faced by every single one of the 200-to-250,000 military veterans entering the civilian labor force, i.e. the “CIVDIV”, every year! They

The Military-to-Civilian Workforce Transition Hole Story

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Military to Civilian Work Force Reintegration

“One day, a military member transitioning out of their military Service Branch and back into the civilian workforce, the “CIVDIV”, fell into the Transition Hole, and he couldn’t get out. Later, as a Senior Non-Commissioned Officer walked by, the stuck Transitioning Soldier called out for help. The “Senior NCO” yelled down to him, telling

“Two” produces amazing things!

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Military to Civilian Work Force Reintegration

Like a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. Or a chocolate peanut butter cup. Or a chocolate syrup drizzled vanilla ice cream sundae. Or glaze and a doughnut. Or honey and tea. Or a wonderful tango dance experience. That’s where the old saying “It takes two to tango comes from”.

Have to make a difference!

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I am sure most of you have heard the popular story of the old man, little boy, and beach full of star fish. But for those that haven’t, essentially an old man happens upon a wee lad on the beach early one morning, and the lad is tossing star fish on the beach back

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