Transitioning from Military to the Workforce and the Values of Veterans within your Organization - a review of the Military Transition Panel at onrec
Peterborough NH (October 18, 2010) – This year at the onrec Expo 2010 (THE Recruiting Conference) a panelist of recruiting experts: Gerry Crispin the Principal and Co-Founder of CareerXroads, Chris Murdock the Founder and Senior Partner of IQTalent Partners, Chad Sowash the Vice President of Direct Employers, and Sean Kelley a Staffing Director at Microsoft, discussed the challenges organizations have faced in recruiting former and active military members, and having them become a successful part of their organization’s team.
For some organizations the difficulties lie in finding the right recruiters to recruit, hire, and place veterans within their organization, but for others - it’s matching the individual veteran skill sets to the right job. According to the panel, the challenges of recruiting and transitioning veterans into an organization can be contributed to:
· The service members/veterans special mindset: the military is a community built on trust and if trust isn’t established - or worse, broken - focus is lost. Meaning although veterans may be a part of your organization they won’t perform well until they feel they are part of a team they can trust. This mindset - although closely related to that of any organizational breakdown, are as follows:
o Organization: Know who you are working for
o Mission: What are the job objectives
