Posted on Feb 24, 2014

How can you help civilian companies improve their relationship with the military and veterans?

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Do you have advise for civilian companies on how to improve their relationship with the current and former military? This is a good platform for your suggestions.

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Edited 10 y ago

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SSG Trevor S.

Posted 10 y ago

Hire a military human resources liaison. This will help in the hiring process, as well as help to educate civilian employees on specific military issues. If you take the approach that both sectors can learn from the other everyone turns out better and more efficient.

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SSG Trevor S.

10 y

I said hire a liaison, not a 42A. Also, a liaison would be a former military member not a currently serving military member.

NCO's function at a more compatible relevance to transitional HR in the civilian sector than our transactional HR 42A personnel.

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SSG Trevor S.

10 y

That is a very interesting program! Good information.

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PO3 Galon Miller

10 y

Hi Trevor, Your suggestion to hire a military liaison is nothing less than outstanding...! Because Target Corp. in Minnesota is in a consortium of 131 companies with a goal of hiring 200,000 veterans by 2020, and Target itself is working toward hiring 25,000 veterans in 2014, bringing in an individual who can help in the hiring process, as well as help to educate civilian employees on specific military issues is a great idea. I plan to recommend the approach for improving our veteran hiring effectiveness. Thank you for sharing!

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PO2 Rocky Kleeger

Posted 10 y ago

The VA has a website dedicated to putting military job skills into civilian terms. That is a good start. The biggest problem I see is that most civilians see us veterans as what the media portrays us to be. To quote Diane Feinstein, "All veterans are mentally ill". There's more to that quote but it will get off the subject of this topic. So, another way would be to come up with a way that the media, not to mention some of the very people that run this country, to change their views of us

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SSG Trevor S.

10 y

Yeah, that Feinstein person is soooo nice!
Have you used the skills translators? They base the information off your MOS or rating not your actual job experience. They are a great start point, but sometimes you have to bring out the military to civilian Rosetta Stone.

Addressing the media view, we as veterans can do something about that. We need to address the media when we volunteer for good causes. We need to present a good foot forward to counterbalance the Fein impression we sometimes face.

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PO2 Rocky Kleeger

10 y

"Fein impression" Great pun!!!

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PO2 Rocky Kleeger

10 y

Oh, and the site you were talking about, that's the VMETS site I mentioned.

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Cpl Chris Rice

>1 y

You may be joking, but Senator Feinstein did not actually say that, and is has been a huge misrepresentation to direct quote her as such. If you don't like her so be it, but if she didn't say it, well she didn't say it.

http://www.factcheck.org/2013/04/twisting-feinsteins-words-on-military-vets/

Twisting Feinstein’s Words on Military Vets

A: No. She said veterans should not be exempt from her proposed assault weapons ban, citing post-traumatic stress disorder as a concern. She did not say all veterans suffer from PTSD or that all veterans should not own guns.

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SPC Christopher Smith

Posted 10 y ago

Liable, and defication are two terms that come to mind when reading this. Although anyone has the right to critise a business, they need to be careful in the words they use because it is possible to end up in court. Although popular sites like Yelp have helped better customer service at businesses from searching what people have said, it has also been the catalyst for some, usually smaller businesses to start a court case against a person because they crossed certain lines.

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