Military veterans are a tremendous national resource. Our service veterans represent an exceptional, stress tested resource with numerous skill sets that allow faster assimilation into most organizational structures and cultures. The veteran is highly trained, disciplined asset who can perform numerous jobs requiring leadership, management, and team building knowledge with minimum organizational training.
1. Veterans offer experience levels and skill sets that nonmilitary personnel may not acquire for several years. The more senior the vet the more experience and skill they have in terms of technical expertise, management, leadership, planning, decision-making, logistics, resource allocation, organization dynamics, communications, administration, security and team building. Very few civilian counterparts with equal years can compare.
2. A veteran’s training and level of responsibility frequently far exceed those of their nonmilitary counterparts. Specialty training starts with their first assignment and continues upon each promotion to emphasize more leadership and management training that correspond with their level of responsibility. Such training could last weeks, months or even a year.
3. Veterans are trained to improvise, remain calm, and think out-side the box. The military spends billions each year training its personnel to operate in any environment with or without designated resources.
4. Veterans fully understand and appreciate real world challenges. Depending on the situation, the veteran is trained to be flexible, adaptable, and creative in eliminating pop-up challenges in order to be successful.
5. For those positions requiring a government security clearance a veteran’s clearance can be quickly reinstated within two years of separation if foreign travel or legal issues are not an issue.
Although industry frequently pays for and encourages individuals to pursue formal degree programs and technical knowledge after work, companies seldom offer academic or professional programs during work hours. Unlike their civilian counterparts, a veteran has hundreds if not thousands of hours of training that add value, technical knowledge and management know-how to any organization.
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