Methodology for translating enlisted veterans' nontechnical skills into civilian employers' terms / Chaitra M. Hardison, Tracy C. McCausland, Michael G. Shanley, Anna Rosefsky Saavedra, Jaclyn Martin, Jonathan P. Wong, Angela Clague, James C. Crowley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hardison, Chaitra M., author.

Krueger, Tracy C., author.

Shanley, Michael G., 1947- author.

Saavedra, Anna Rosefsky, author.

Martin, Jaclyn, author.

Wong, Jonathan P., author.

Clague, Angela, author.

Crowley, James C., 1945- author.

Contributor:

United States. Department of Defense. Office of the Secretary of Defense, sponsor.

National Defense Research Institute (U.S.). Forces and Resources Policy Center, issuing body.

Rand Corporation. National Security Research Division, issuing body.

Rand Corporation, publisher.

Series:

Research report (Rand Corporation) ; RR-1919-OSD.

Research report ; RR-1919-OSD

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Veterans--Employment--United States.

Veterans.

Veterans--Employment.

Career changes.

Planning.

Job descriptions.

Evaluation.

Veterans--Vocational guidance.

United States.

Veterans--Vocational guidance--United States.

Job descriptions--United States--Evaluation.

Armed Forces--Vocational guidance.

Armed Forces.

Vocational qualifications.

Career changes--United States--Planning.

Physical Description:

xviii, 143 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.

Place of Publication:

Santa Monica, Calif. : RAND, [2017]

Summary:

"Civilian employers may not appreciate the full value veterans can bring to their organizations, because military and civilian workplace cultures and languages can seem radically different from one another. To address this, the authors of this report developed prototype toolkits that veterans, especially those in Army and Marine Corps enlisted combat arms occupations, can use to help describe their skills to potential civilian employers and that civilian employers can use to understand veteran job applicants' skills. In this report, the authors describe their methodology for developing the toolkits. In the first phase of the study, the authors developed a list of essential workplace skills, then created materials that show how these skills are developed through formal military training and education courses. In the second phase, they added to the list of essential workplace skills and expanded the materials to include vignettes illustrating how these skills are developed through military service members' on-the-job experience. The authors offer a number of insights on how the method could be improved and how it could be potentially applied to develop similar materials for broader groups of veterans."--RAND website.

Notes:

"Prepared for the Office of the Secretary of Defense."--Title page.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 141-143).

"This research was sponsored by the Transition to Veterans Program Office of the Office of the Secretary of Defense."--RAND website.

ISBN:

0833099191

9780833099198

OCLC:

1012807598