Military experience translates to success for vets

每年，大约有25万名武装部队的成员最后一次脱下制服，然后回到准备重新加入美国劳动力并开始下一章生活的平民世界。这是25万个高技能，面向团队的人，在专业领域进行世界一流的培训，准备将其独特的经验应用于私营部门的新角色。

但是，如果没有获得改变生活的经验的重新融合教育和准备，从士兵到平民的过渡可能是一个困难的人。

For Ezell Tornes, a 25-year veteran of the Army and Army National Guard who now works as a material management supervisor for Guardian Industries in DeWitt, Iowa, finding roles he qualified for or that interested him wasn’t difficult – the hardest part was simply getting a foot in the door. Tornes said, “Often, I wouldn’t even hear back from a company.”

But for veterans like Casey Olin, a 14-year veteran of the United States Air Force and now an operations manager for GP Harmon Recycling, translating military skills and work experience into civilian terms was an even greater challenge. “It was a strange, new thing,” said Olin.

Koch Industries的风险优化总监Shannon Vivar五年海军陆战队说：“我本来会尝试使用一些资深组织和可用的资源来帮助我了解我的比较优势在哪里，以及我带给我的东西桌子。”

自2014年担任科赫工业的军事关系经理以ldsports体育比分来，退休的陆军上校约翰·巴克利一直忙于使Vivar，Tornes和Owen等退伍军人更轻松地使这种过渡更加容易。通过这样做，巴克利（Buckley）帮助增加了科赫工业（Koch Industries）的资深人口将近四倍，并带领该公司实现了军事友好的银色身份这是2018年的第一次。

The Military Friendly designation is important to Buckley because it recognizes the基于市场的管理（MBM）理念这指导科赫文化与士兵在服务中的体现直接保持一致 - 这是他想要退伍军人和退出军人认识的人。正是这种对齐使科赫成为退伍军人的文化，反之亦然。

巴克利说：“从增长的角度来看，我们从七个职业领域开始，作为科赫（Koch）的招聘重点，例如商业和工程等。”"This year alone, we’ve hired on vets across 20 different career fields. And we’re connecting them to MBM trainings and mentorship programs. But I continue to challenge the status quo in wondering how can we take it to the next level? Because I still feel like we’re leaving a lot of quality people on the table.”

这项培训和指导是科赫（Koch过渡士兵的在线资源。

科赫之外,巴克利曾与其他的守护神ge businesses like GM, Textron and J.P Morgan to share best practices on veteran hiring and retention strategies, as well as counseled veterans in need of guidance. It’s this partnership with other organizations and willingness to collaborate beyond company walls that’s most telling of Buckley’s passion for helping veterans, whether with Koch or elsewhere.

托尼·莱德（Tony Leiding）比任何人都更了解这一点。Leiding是一名航空航空疏散任务的美国陆军队长和黑鹰直升机飞行员，在现役八年后，于2015年离开了该服务，并开始寻求机会将其MBA上班。通过网络和与巴克利联系的威奇托地区的各种公司进行了50多次信息访谈。

“I sent him my resume, and I thought I had what I considered to be a pretty solid resume,” Leiding recalled. “But he had a very frank conversation with me about the need to make it more ‘civilianized,’ for lack of a better word – really make it clear what I did in the service and equate that to civilian experience. It was a hard conversation, but it was what I needed to hear.”

Leiding融合了Buckley的反馈意见，并正在与Koch申请多个职位，当时机会来自另一家乙醇公司。那家公司采访了Leiding并当场雇用了他，此后他一直在那里工作。但是他并没有忘记他收到的指导，从而实现了这一目标。

“约翰是一个很棒的人，他知道自己关于过渡的知识，”莱德说。“他对我的指导肯定是无价的，我能够接受他与我分享的许多指示和技巧，并通过将知识传递给也从军队过渡的朋友传递给我来付款。”