Methodology for Translating Enlisted Veteran's Nontechnical Skills into Civilian Employers' Terms
Abstract
Civilian employers may not appreciate the full value veterans can bring to their organizations, because military and civilian workplace cultures and languages can seem radically different from one another. To address this, the authors of this report developed prototype toolkits that veterans, especially those in Army and Marine Corps enlisted combat arms occupations, can use to translate and describe their skills to potential civilian employers and that civilian employers can use to understand veteran job applicants skills. In this report, the authors describe their methodology for developing the toolkits. In the first phase of the study, the authors developed a list of essential workplace skills, then created materials that show how these skills are developed through formal military training and education courses. In the second phase, they added to the list of essential workplace skills and expanded the materials to include vignettes illustrating how these skills are developed through military service members on-the-job experience. The authors offer a number of insights on how the method could be improved and how it could be potentially applied to develop similar materials for broader groups of veterans.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Aug 03, 2018
- Accession Number
- AD1057211
Entities
People
- Angela Clague
- Anna R. Saavedra
- Chaitra M. Hardison
- Jaclyn Martin
- James C. Crowley
- Jonathan P. Wong
- Michael G. Shanley
- Tracy C. Mccausland