What Veterans Bring to Civilian Workplaces: A Prototype Toolkit for Helping Private-Sector Employers Understand the Nontechnical Skill Developed in the Military
Abstract
Veterans have a great deal to offer to potential civilian employers, including valuable nontechnical skills, such as leadership, decisionmaking, being dependable, and attention to detail. However, for civilian employers, understanding the nontechnical skills veterans have developed through military training, education, and on-the-job experience can be challenging, because military and civilian workplace cultures and languages can seem radically different from one another. To help address this issue, the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness asked the RAND Corporation to develop prototype tools to translate the valued nontechnical skills that enlisted personnel acquire during military service into civilian terms. This report documents one of the prototype tools, a prototype toolkit for use by civilian employers. In this toolkit, we describe how 19 general skills, important to civilian job success, are developed through on-the-job experience and selected formal military education courses for enlisted personnel in the Army and Marine Corps in selected combat arms occupations.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jan 01, 2017
- Accession Number
- AD1086722
Entities
People
- Angela Clague
- Anna R. Saavedra
- Chaitra M. Hardison
- Jaclyn Martin
- James C. Crowley
- Jonathan P. Wong
- Michael G. Shanley
- Paul S. Steinberg
- Tracy C. Mccausland
Organizations
- RAND Corporation