Find Your Calling: Career Transition Principles for Returning Veterans (basic page test)
The skills you learned in the military will go a long way toward helping you succeed in the civilian workforce, but if you’re looking for some extra guidance in figuring out what to do next for a career – and ultimately a new way to serve – then you’ll find it in this course.
The course content is grounded in research, delivered by experts in their given fields, and is meant to provide you with a framework for an iterative process of self-reflection and the development of practical skills that enables you to make career choices that better align with your values, ambitions, and continued service. Ultimately, this course helps you answer the question: What should I do next?
Course Overview
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Practical tips and strategies for making a successful military-to-civilian career transition.
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A framework for how to begin thinking about and exploring new career opportunities.
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Model behaviors exhibited by veterans who have successfully started new careers.
This course focuses first on identifying the character strengths that veterans need to exhibit in order to make a successful career transition. We found direct similarities between the virtues that Aurelius wrote about and the behaviors that veterans need to exhibit today to make a successful transition.
- Pietas (Citizenship)
- Prudentia (Critical Thinking)
- Veritas (Authenticity)
- Gravitas (Passion)
- Humanitas (Choice and Creativity)
- Nosce Te Ipsum (Emotional Intelligence)
Executive Director - Center for Veteran Transition and Integration, Marine Corps Veteran
Best-Selling Author, Award-Winning Essayist
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Executive Director - Center for Veteran Transition and Integration, Marine Corps Veteran