3 Shocking Stats on Veteran Transition …and what we can do about it « The Travis Manion...

To be honest about this, I do not see that these are shocking statistics. These three items were the primary reasons that the military services started their Transition Assistance Programs back in the early 1990's and started to push this training to Active Duty personnel getting ready to be discharged or retire from service.
What most people do not realize or turn a semi blind eye both in and out of service is that the economy and availability of jobs that are out there in the civilian marketplace.
Another factor is that most will not slide into a job at the level expected, a lot of time the average service member, whether it is officer or enlisted, they will start out at the bottom and have to work their way back up the ladder.
If you go and find an earlier version of the book/publication - What Color is Your Parachute? and touts the same three things as it did when it was first published in 1972.
■ The traditional job-hunting system is a numbers game that is “heavily loaded toward failing the job hunter.”
■ A “creative minority” has come up with nontraditional, highly successful methods of job hunting that involve choosing the places you want to work and approaching the people there who can hire you.
■ Before choosing those places, job hunters must look inward, figuring out what they would most love to do — and where, geographically, they want to do it.
"Those three concepts are as relevant in 2014 as they were in 1972, as are the shock of rejection, the loss of self-esteem, and the depression that can result from a prolonged round of job hunting, which Mr. Bolles also covers. Those parts of the book have stayed the same because human nature doesn’t change, he said."
You should note that this applies to both civilians and veterans, and has not changed over time.
This is why the information in the linked article is not new and should not be shocking to anyone going through a job transition as big as departing active military service.

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