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From our PreVeteran family to yours, Happy Holidays and Happy New Year! ❤️

The harder (and smarter) you work on your #militarytransition, the better your "luck" will be as well. 😉

Military service members seeking post-military employment, things are changing fast! In the recent past, you had to deal with getting past the Applicant Tracking System (ATS). Now you have to deal with AI as well. 😳 From the MSN article, "Despite concerns surrounding data privacy, potential discrimination, and the inability to recognize hidden potential in candidates, HR executives maintain that AI is making the hiring process more efficient and faster." In other words, AI is not going anywhere, so you'll need to content with this as well. How does one do that? 🧐 There is a 4-part answer: 1️⃣ Determine where you want to live post-military 2️⃣ Location almost always dictates your job opportunities (remote roles are the outlier) 3️⃣ Down-select to 2-3 companies and network within those companies 4️⃣ Through networking, bypass the ATS and AI Here's the catch with the 4-part answer...for best results, you need to begin doing this work about 18 months BEFORE you depart the military. Do you feel overwhelmed or don't know how to get started? Join our next Employment Prep Course (EPC) cohort starting on 27 Jan 2025. We have a model, tools, support, and a community for this transformation. Interested? Check out the first comment for a link to the EPC page. Questions? Drop them below. 👇 😎

We've always believed this meme did a nice job explaining a high-level look at #militarytransition but that it lacked context. Now that we've added the military environment (from which service members are leaving) and the private sector environment (from which they are entering), it makes more sense. However, within this new context, service members leaving the military and entering the private sector don't need resources—they need tools. Maybe the framing of this problem has been wrong since 1991 and needs to be reconsidered... Thoughts?

Happy Thanksgiving! Enjoy taking some time for yourself and your family. Also keep in mind the military members serving abroad (away from their families) that allow us to take this time to enjoy this holiday. 🦃 (Image) from servingtogetherproject.org

Ah, what? 🤔 Does this even make sense? Before you JMOs get bent out of shape, let's put a bit of context around this, shall we? From the attached story in Yahoo Finance, a retired US Army officer states the following in snippets: 📣 An education in business “unlocks a tremendous, tremendous amount of opportunity” for veterans transitioning into business' 📣 “An MBA from a top program is an amazing way for veterans to transition,” Levine says, noting that VA (Veteran Affairs) benefits can aid individuals in paying for business school. “It really helps you learn the language of business.” 📣 “One of the difficult things that people don’t really talk about,” she explains, “is you have to learn a whole new vocabulary when you leave the Army. The acronyms are very different.” (Rhetorical) Question: Do you really need to commit the time (2-3 years) and money (>$100k) to essentially align yourself to the business world...or is this actually a unnecessary and unwise investment? ‼️ If only there was training to acquaint military service members to the private sector business environment that can be done in weeks, not years. 😉 What say you?

This Military.com article with the following quote (below) could have been written in 1995, 2001, 2012, as well as today. Why is that? Why are our service members constantly stuck in granny gear when it comes to leaving the military? Don't overthink it. It's because the system does not work. 🙅♂️ 🙅♀️ Article quote: "Transitioning out of the military to civilian life is a daunting task, with mounds of paperwork, countless decisions to be made and stress from every angle." Here's the thing, it does not have to be this way. 😉 Coming in 2025—The Military Transition Common Operating Picture—courtesy of PreVeteran. Let the change begin! #militarytransition #transitioningmilitary #preveteran #bettersolutions

Happy Birthday to our crayon-eating United States Marine Corps brothers and sisters. We Love ya! ❤️

Indeed, sir! This wisdom also applies to planning for #militarytransition. ✅ Suffer the pain of being diligent and disciplined in your efforts to prepare to get out of the military BEFORE you leave the military Or ❌ Suffer the pain of regret when you transition does not go well because you have not done the work or put in the time

When it comes to planning for your upcoming #militarytransition, this is an important reminder. Be sure to purposefully plan some down time. ❤️ Time with your family 💪 Time for your personal fitness 💤 Time for a good night's sleep 🥗 Time to enjoy a nutritious meal ⛳ Time to enjoy some recreation #preveteran #transitioningmilitary #wellness #health