Posted on May 2, 2016
Always Be Connecting! | Military Job Networks
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The Challenge.
According to a year-old article on Defense One, What Americans Don’t Understand About Their Own Military, about only 3 to 4% of the US population serves in the military/industrial complex. That means Veterans leaving the service have a slim chance that the person across the desk interviewing them will understand anything they’re saying if they speak military.
Exacerbating this, as Recruit Military CEO and President Peter Gudmundsson has suggested, is the fact that civilian jobs fall into only 1 of 3 archetypes: making stuff, selling stuff, or counting stuff. You’ll notice lead stuff isn’t in there.
Lead stuff is a nice-to-have outside the gate, not a need-to-have. There are folks sitting in leadership roles on the organizational chart already. Often they’re the best whatever-they-are in their specialty or function or department, so they’re promoted to Boss, of which leadership is only a component.
This means you have to be able to convey to the hiring manager which one of these 3 archetypes you can do then: make stuff, sell stuff, or count stuff.
You have to connect the dots for them so they have a clear picture of who you are, what you can do for them, and what value that brings to them. On your resume and in your LinkedIn profile and interviews, you should Always Be Connecting! (The dots that is…)
According to a year-old article on Defense One, What Americans Don’t Understand About Their Own Military, about only 3 to 4% of the US population serves in the military/industrial complex. That means Veterans leaving the service have a slim chance that the person across the desk interviewing them will understand anything they’re saying if they speak military.
Exacerbating this, as Recruit Military CEO and President Peter Gudmundsson has suggested, is the fact that civilian jobs fall into only 1 of 3 archetypes: making stuff, selling stuff, or counting stuff. You’ll notice lead stuff isn’t in there.
Lead stuff is a nice-to-have outside the gate, not a need-to-have. There are folks sitting in leadership roles on the organizational chart already. Often they’re the best whatever-they-are in their specialty or function or department, so they’re promoted to Boss, of which leadership is only a component.
This means you have to be able to convey to the hiring manager which one of these 3 archetypes you can do then: make stuff, sell stuff, or count stuff.
You have to connect the dots for them so they have a clear picture of who you are, what you can do for them, and what value that brings to them. On your resume and in your LinkedIn profile and interviews, you should Always Be Connecting! (The dots that is…)
Always Be Connecting! | Military Job Networks
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Amen, well said, Sir... and, I would add that even those few that understand leadership can consistently perform those skills.
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COL Mikel J. Burroughs
SSG William Egan Great picture and example - I owe you a vote up tomorrow - thanks
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SP5 Mark Kuzinski
I was also late to learn this Christine but when I got my act finally together I found out how great "Networking" worked.
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SFC Ronnie Simonsen
SP5 Mark Kuzinski - I was late as well. The problem is telling military personnel to network doesn't work as you need to break it down that they need to widen their net outside of just the military community they are used to. I did not know how important networking was for employment and only learned the value of it once I had already been my military transition leave in May.
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SFC Ronnie Simonsen - can I get an admin to let me vote this up more than once please? "The problem is telling military personnel to network doesn't work as you need to break it down that they need to widen their net outside of just the military community they are used to."
A big HR/Recruiter AMEN to that brother!
A big HR/Recruiter AMEN to that brother!
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