“They’re not raining down on me like manna from heaven! I have my SDVOSB and [INSERT ANY OTHER POPULAR FEDERAL SMALL DISADVANTAGED BUSINESS CATEGORY CERTIFICATION HERE]! What gives?” In my work over the past decade supplying PMP and Sec+ certified veteran project and program managers and PMP and Sec+
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.
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
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
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
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
