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Staying connected: Transferable and adaptable skills
Every soldier brings two fundamental skill sets to the workforce, when transitioning from the military to a civilian job: that of his or her transferable skills and that of his or her adaptive skills. I am a Command Sergeant Major with over 33 years of active military service. I have gained both transferable skills and adaptable skills over the course of my service.
The most useful transferable skills, the skills I have directly and actively used while serving in my position that can be easily deployed in the workforce involve my capacity for mentorship and teaching. As part of my duties as senior enlisted advisor to my commanding officer I have served as both as an advocate and representative...
My job involves working with people. Empathy and affirming the self-worth of fellow soldiers is a critical component of my work as a counselor and trainer. I am a guide as well as an advocate, when I help the population I am serving. My position is one of leadership, and communication is a critical component of leadership, as a leader must understand the needs of his or her followers.
Another of the functions of my position involves training troops to ensure they are ready for combat. This demands that I am able to teach in a caring and responsive fashion as well as exercise firmness. I do enforce discipline but I do so not to affirm my own ego, but rather to ensure that the organization I am working for functions well. Serving in the army as a trainer has helped me understand the difference between disciplining others to make myself feel better vs. disciplining to make the person I am leading perform to his or her highest capacity. I also…
