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.

McCausland, Tracy C., author.

Shanley, Michael G., author.

Saavedra, Anna Rosefsky, author.

Martin, Jaclyn, author.

Wong, Jonathan P., author.

Clague, Angela, author.

Crowley, James C., 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.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Veterans--Employment--United States.

Veterans.

Veterans--Vocational guidance--United States.

Job descriptions--United States--Evaluation.

Job descriptions.

Armed Forces--Vocational guidance.

Armed Forces.

Vocational qualifications.

Career changes--United States--Planning.

Career changes.

Professional Competence.

Veterans--Employment.

Veterans--Vocational guidance.

United States.

Medical Subjects:

Professional Competence.

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

Contents:

Introduction

Creating the List of Relevant Nontechnical Skills

Phase I: Summarizing Formal Military Training and Education Courses

Phase II: Summarizing On-the-Job Experiences in the Military

The Resulting Prototype Toolkits

Lessons Learned for Development of Future Toolkits

Appendix A: Existing Transition Resources

Appendix B: U.S. Department of Education's Competency Source Overview

Appendix C: Level-of-Skill Anchors for Two Additional Skill Dimensions

Appendix D: Form Completed by Training Subject-Matter Experts During Interviews

Appendix E: Training and Education Subject-Matter Expert Interview Protocol, September 2014

Appendix F: On-the-Job Experience Questionnaire Completed During Focus Groups, September 2016

Appendix G: On-the-Job Experience Survey of Frequency and Importance, September 2016

Appendix H: Example Course Overview

Appendix I: Example On-the-Job Experience Vignettes

Appendix J: On-the-Job Experience Survey Results: Supplemental Details

Appendix K: Reports Synthesized in Education for Life and Work: Developing Transferable Knowledge and Skills in the 21st Century (NRC, 2012).