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Last week, the Wall Street Journal had an article about a company that had 25,000 applicants for a single position but did not hire anyone because none of the applicants were "qualified." The author, an HR expert oliver jeffers from Wharton, cited this kind of inflexiblity, refusal to pay competitive wages, and the death of corporate training and apprenticeships as contributing to unemployment. oliver jeffers Veterans are some of the hardest hit hit by this insanity.
While I understand that it is difficult to translate military experience into the civilian job market, this is getting out of hand. Reuters just ran a story that mentioned a medic who couldn't use his background to get a job as he would need two more years of school to get the same civlian medical qualifications he had in the military. I know one grunt with tours in Iraq and Afghanistan who bagged groceries for two years after he got out, then took a job as a defense contractor in Afghanistan. I recently applied for a job as a security guard, but didn't get it because I did not have the right credentials. I've carried a gun in Iraq, Afghanistan, and elsewhere, but I apparently need more training and licenses to carry one around an office building.
There have been some great intiatives to try to help veterans use their military background in the civilian world. But, some skills simply don't cross over. There are no civilian artillery observers or mortarmen. My roommate at Annapolis was a SEAL. He has a degree in oceanography, speaks fluent Hindi, and is frighteningly good at swimming and shooting people. I wonder where he will take those skills in the private sector. I know of some service academy grads who don't list their time in the military on their resumes.
As the military draws down in Iraq and Afghanistan, more and more veterans are going to try to enter the workforce. The Department of Defense and others have threatened stated that defense cuts could raise unemployment another percent. I understand that I bear the brunt of the responsbility for translating my experience into civilian language. I don't expect companies to meet me halfway, but a little consideration would be nice. If firms are going to continue to expect oliver jeffers perfect candiates to emerge fully formed from Zeus's head like Athena, a lot more veterans are going to be filing for unemployment. At least the defense contractors are still hiring ... for now.
Matthew Collins spent 10 years as a Marine Intelligence Officer, including tours with 2nd Reconnaissance Battalion, the Defense Intelligence Agency and the British oliver jeffers Army. Now he's an otherwise unemployed MBA student at St. Louis University.
Like oliver jeffers I said, I've been reading further afield lately, and am almost finished with Michael Grant's The Rise of the Greeks , which is my idea of fun. Fill in this blank: "Thus in respect of basic equalities, [ ] was the first authentic, thoroughgoing democracy among the Greeks or anywhere in the world, as far as its citizens oliver jeffers were concerned." (P. 93, paperback)
Grant also says that the early Greek philosopher Anaximander was poking around with evolutionary theory,