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Developing Both Halves of Your Project Management Brain

We can use our brain’s dual-hemisphere construct and the theory of left brain-right brain to explore the necessary evolution of a project manager’s profession; getting paid to manage projects.   ...

How To Break Out of the ‘No Domain Experience, No Job’ Vortex

[vc_row][vc_column][ld_spacer height=”60px”][vc_column_text] Opportunity. Over the course of my work with thousands of transitioning military service members and veterans, many of whom have significant amounts of military project management experience, a ...

Journey from Military-to-Civilian Project Manager

Eric “Doc” Wright, PhD helps military veterans achieve meaningful, lucrative post-service careers. Why? Because his own transition was long and dark. In fact, it almost killed him! And, because after ...

Job or Career?

Regardless of the length of your military service, you received tens of thousands of dollars of high-tech, hands-on formal and on-the-job training in your military occupation, leadership, and followership. Upon ...

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VETS2PM Awarded with Gold Medallion For Veteran Hiring Initiatives

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The HIRE Vets Medallion Award is the only federal-level veterans’ employment award that recognizes a company or organization’s commitment to veteran hiring, retention, and professional development. HIRE Vets Medallion Award ...

What level of military leader qualifies for civilian project management?

This article addresses the old chicken-egg SNCO|JMO|SMO argument! ...

Top 10 Reasons Veteran Project Managers Are Really Agilists!

Military Members and Veterans are adept at responding to rapid change, assembling and coaching high-performing teams, and conducting continuous improvement the entire time. ...

Here’s What You Probably Didn’t Hear In Your Military Transition Class, But Need To!

Even though project management represents a meaningful, lucrative post-Service career many Veterans already qualify for, it is rarely mentioned in TAP classes; to the extreme detriment of our transitioning Members ...

How Military Veterans Become Project Managers Making $80-$95K Their First Year

In only 3 years, Vets2PM has placed 392 Veteran PMs into 283 companies; all with average starting salaries of $90K! ...

How To Be The Tide Raising All Boats!

As the old military saying goes, "each one teach one". Teaching, coaching and developing others is a talent that military members and veterans excel at. ...

The TTP of Project Management!

Breaking down how conducting a military mission equates to managing a project; aside from the shooting. ...
My Why: and How to find yours!

My Why; And How To Find Yours!

People buy why you do what you do first, tell 'em! ...

Your Secondary MOS Was Project Management!

Since civilian projects share the same definition as military missions, military leaders have project management experience! Find out it translates... ...

Oh Yeah! Jimmy’s a Professional!

Unless you have a press agent, readers of your LinkedIn profile know you wrote it, so talk to them in first person! It's a conversation. Don't be like Jimmy from ...

“You’re A Fantastic Manager!” Is Actually A Compliment Military Leaders!

Military Leaders can use Fayol's globally accepted, centuries old, proven theory of business administration to translate their experience into project and general management experience with phenomenal results. This article describes ...

YEP! Military Leaders Are Project Managers!

Military leaders can use project management to translate their leadership experience into its commercial form of project. This article explains how. ...

Learning To Speak Project Management: Fighting From Two AOs!

Military Leaders have significant amounts of project management experience; the trick is translating it into a commercially viable form. Watch how we turn switch AOs mission into a commercial project! ...

Combating MILSPOUSE Un/Underemployment With Project Management!

Many Military Spouse's have significant amounts of project management experience. However, they don't realize it and miss out on a highly portable, durable, meaningful, and lucrative career! This project lays ...