It’s a powerful word. It’s a combination of “capacity” and “ability”. And it’s what hiring managers are looking for in new hire candidates. “Based on what this person has done, can they do what I need them to do to solve the problems
It’s a concept that I made up formed from two words, and it’s derived from a decade plus years helping 13K+ military veterans translate their experience into a language that Corporate America understands and get hired for those positions. “Provable Fluency” is the combination
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
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
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
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
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.
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
“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
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
