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Military to Veteran Transition

Introducing the Entrepreneur’s Full Brain

To successfully found, operate, grow, and exit a business enterprise takes an entrepreneurial mindset.   And when I work with Veteran Owned Businesses, this is one of the topics I cover when I am helping them tell their business’ story in a compelling, fact-driven manner

STAR Method for the Interview Win!

In my recent article Using First Principles Thinking to Solve Our Hiring Heroes Problem appearing in the Factory for Innovative Policy Solutions online publication First Principles Thinking Review, I discuss the STAR method of interviewing promoted by SHRM, and why it is with military veterans.[1]

Hiring Process Illustrated

At the risk of oversimplifying, here is the hiring process illustrated.   It’s from the perspective of the folks in an organization in Corporate America looking for a candidate to hire, the functional manager and their HR partner.   And it’s for the veteran hiring

The Fourth First Principle of Solving Our Hiring Heroes Problem

The complex challenge of reintegrating our military veterans, i.e., “heroes”, defined as “people admired for courage, outstanding achievements, or noble qualities”, back into the civilian workforce has persisted since Caesar Augustus in 13 BC! Therefore, it’s time to solve this problem, and First Principles Thinking

Quack!

Ockham’s razor.   If you’re like most people I meet in audiences across the US, many of you have heard of it.  It, like all other philosophical razors, is a mental shortcut we use to reduce complexity around decisions and issues.  Ockham’s razor, sometimes spelled

Join us!

“Movement”.   Merriam-Webster’s Online Dictionary defines it as “an organized effort to promote or attain an end“.   And that’s exactly what we’ve done at Vets2PM, start a movement to realign perceptions of veterans reintegrated into the civilian workforce, the “CIVDIV”, to shatter myths and

The Charlie Brown Communication Problem

If you’re like most military veterans that have sat in that first interview during your transition into the civilian workforce, or you’re like most hiring managers I meet across the US that have read a newly minted resume from a military member or veteran, you

This is Doug; Doug the tug!

Doug, a tug, and its crew and cargo sailed past the Fish Lips restaurant in Cape Canaveral, Florida yesterday, right before I went on stage to present the Florida Association of Veteran-Owned Businesses, Inc. (FAVOB)’s State of the Mission Keynote about how local Florida businesses

Vets2PM’s Performance Baseline for 2024

Vets2PM, LLC closed out its eighth year helping military veterans land meaningful, lucrative post-Service careers strong!  We’ve helped over twelve thousand of them do just that in 1,167 companies across Corporate America, and they’re all earning $85K+ a year to start, which is creating just

What Does “Meaningful” and “Lucrative” Mean to You?

TL;DR Video: https://youtu.be/kvwJqFHCHmM One hundred and eighteen thousand.  That’s the number we arrive at using some key Departments of Defense[i] and Labor[ii] numbers and a bit of arithmetic.  And it’s important because it’s the answer to a critical question we ask ourselves at Vets2PM each