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Military Alumni Transition Career Headquarters
MATCH is a world-class military alumni association specializing in
the career acceleration of transitioning service disabled veterans
Qualifying, training, and connecting service-disabled, recently-
separated veterans with accelerated, high-value career
opportunities among America’s emerging industries
Strategies for Service Disabled to Six Figures
Dr. David M. Paschane, CEO
Founding Sponsor: Claros Communications, Inc.
MATCH Foundation, 501(c)3
Los Angeles, CA 90024
202-256-5763
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MATCH COMMITMENT
The Military Alumni Transition Career Headquarters (MATCH) is a world-class
career transition service for those who are leaving the military to access
civilian employers. We enable rapid and sustained career readiness through
workforce development partnerships with academic and corporate
organizations. We work with government and private organizations to ensure
a coordinated and technologically-enabled restoration process for those
military alumni/veterans who are injured and/or disabled. Our operations are
designed by military alumni to ensure convenient and comprehensive
experiences. Our services are evaluated and reported continuously to ensure
that are veteran customers, corporate partners, and government sponsors are
aware of our performance, results, and commitment to success. MATCH is
committed to the career success of men and women who dedicated
themselves to military service, and will bear the costs of that service for the
rest of their lives.
BUSINESS ADVANTAGES OF MATCH PARTNERSHIP
1. Competitive access to candidates with best-in-class commitments to
operational engagement. Recently separated veterans are prepared for
persistent engagements.
2. Reduced recruitment costs through customized, cooperative targeting
of workforce. MATCH aligns corporate workforce strategy to timing of
military separations.
3. Reduced training costs and improved access to just-in-time,
responsibility-specific curriculum. MATCH streamlines strategic use of
education benefits.
4. Reduced healthcare and life insurance costs through alternative
sources. Disabled veterans qualify for these services and benefits
through the Federal Government.
5. Competitive access to candidates with significant technology familiarity,
and access to subsidized technology-enabling work tools. Disabled
veterans qualify for technologies that enable their work performance.
6. Reduced business risk through transferring responsibilities to skilled
leaders with a demonstrated life commitment to personal integrity,
maximum performance, and team success.
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7. Enhanced customer perception of the corporation through MATCH
branded recognitions of corporate commitment to a workforce highly
regarded by the public.
8. Enhanced credibility with Federal and State governments who prefer
contracting with corporations who hire service-disabled veterans, are
owned by service-disabled veterans, or team with companies owned by
service disabled veterans.
CORE SERVICES OF MATCH
1. Assist disabled veterans in the strategic alignment of education and training
benefits to career and business opportunities.
2. Assist businesses and governments in their development of a high-
performing, low-cost disabled veteran workforce.
3. Assist technologists in the testing and promotion of career-enabling solutions
for disabled veteran workers.
4. Assist volunteers in transferring valuable career and business skills to service
disabled veterans through customized coaching.
5. Assist the public in recognizing the competitive attributes in service disabled
veterans; including work ethic, leadership, discipline, team orientation,
integrity, problem-solving proficiency, operational awareness, material
protection, and mission dedication.
INTRODUCTION
Many separating veterans waste time and resources struggling to find a quality
career path. The repeated, ineffective efforts undermine their confidence,
exacerbate anxieties with adjustment, and diminish their ability to apply the
skills and focus they refined during military service. Recent studies
demonstrate that compared to their peers (demographics and qualifications)
the 130,000 who separate each year tend to have lower incomes and are
unable to successfully use the education benefits they earned in the military.1
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Congress requested a comprehensive employment outcomes study from the U.S. Department of
Veterans Affairs (PL 108-454, sec 211). An independent, contracted research firm, Abt & Associates
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The model for successful career services is the alumni associations of
prestigious academic institutions. These alumni associations are successful
because they qualify and coach candidates while aligning high-value training
with corporations’ workforce development goals.
Successful transition from military service to a civilian career requires an
explicit outcome goal, framed by a process that accurately represents the
complexity of the experiences of disabled veterans. The figure below illustrates
that the restoration process is a combination of rehabilitation, stabilization, and
preparation, if the expected outcome is career readiness. Any deficiencies in
this process will undermine restoration of the disabled veteran.
Restoration and Explicit End States
The overnight transition from combat readiness to career readiness is
overwhelming. Changes to his or her family, work, and community, as well as
mind and body, further complicate the transition. A rapid and comprehensive
career readiness solution is required, and should be expected by all Americans.
provided their report and it was briefed to the Secretary’s agent on Veterans’ Day, 2007. The agent
required the firm to redo the study. The second report is posted online: www1.va.gov/vetdata/docs/
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Results of not enabling successful career readiness:
1. Wasted time, effort, and resources
2. Diminished personal strengths
3. Exacerbated anxieties
4. Under-motivated rehabilitation efforts
5. Dire perceptions and choices
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MATCH SOLUTION
The MATCH solution places each veteran in the middle of a sophisticated
career transition network. The three major channels in the network are the
Corporate Employer, Academic Trainer, and the Community Coach. The
preparation and engagement are accelerated through on-line tools and career
enhancing technologies. Our solution enables rapid and sustained career
readiness that completes the restoration process.
There are six operational components to the MATCH solution. These
components ensure that MATCH can maximize the value to both disabled
veterans and the corporations with a commitment to this workforce.
1. CONFER with businesses about their workforce development commitments
and characterize the associated skill sets required.
2. CERTIFY veterans’ past and new qualifications through accelerated,
technology-enabled2
training programs, supported by academic institutions
streamlining training to fit employer requirements, with enabling
technologies.
3. COACH the veterans to be successful candidates through the partnership
with industry representatives selected by the veteran.
4. CONCENTRATE the veteran’s attention through a customized training,
Competitive Business Engagement, which addresses psychological and
professional management processes.
5. CONNECT the veteran to hiring managers with access to the high-quality
careers, and to entrepreneurs aligning franchising and contracting
opportunities.
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MATCH encourages the use of on-line courses that work with artificial intelligence / natural language
tutors that sustain the learning process, accommodate rehabilitation needs, and minimize the impact
on career seeking engagements.
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6. CONFIRM the performance and outcome of the career connections, so as
to identify process performance and strategy gaps.
MATCH PARTNERS
MATCH Foundation is aligning strategic partnerships with organizations that
share in its vision and commitment.
• Commission on the Future of America’s Veterans 3
• American Association of People with Disabilities 4
• National Governor’s Association
• America’s Health Insurance Plans
• VetJobs.com (U.S. Veterans of Foreign Wars)
• U.S. Department of Defense
• U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
• U.S. Department of Labor
• U.S. Department of Education
MATCH considers all Americans potential partners in its mission. The social
benefits of MATCH include (a) increasing the opportunity for civilians to assist
disabled veterans, (b) reducing the costly burden of unemployment payments
to non-working veterans, (c) increasing military recruitment where citizens see
positive post-military careers, (d) reducing the future tax burden of expensive
mitigating programs designed to fix failed restoration problems, and (e)
strengthening the economy by infusing it with a hardworking and ethical
workforce.
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The Commission on the Future of American Veterans has a broad policy agenda, and can benefit
from MATCH contributing to its employability policies. The Commission is aware of the emerging
challenges that exist in contemporary, Fourth Generation Warfare, where servicemembers face
enemies that operate within a global arena, are associated with authorities that are difficult to
delineate politically, and are entrenched in culturally divergent groups.
4
The American Association of People with Disabilities leads best practices in disability policy. MATCH
can provide demonstrations into the strategies that enable employability among disabled persons,
including methods of (a) augmenting individual capacity for work, (b) emphasizing functional
enhancement over disability limitations, and (c) improving adaptation to disabilities through work.
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FUNDING RESOURCES
The MATCH Board of Directors will identify strategic funding through grants,
donors, corporate sponsorships, workforce placement fees, and technology
partnerships. Fund-sharing is possible through education5
benefits paid to
partnering academic institutions, vocational rehabilitation benefits6
, and career
counseling services7
. As a key resource in the fulfillment of national
restoration goals, Congress may designate and assign resources to MATCH
as a Center of Excellence.
5
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) distributes education funds earned under the GI Bill
program. The funds can be used in an accelerated rate if the program qualifies as a technology field.
6
The VA operates the Vocational Rehabilitation and Employment program, which provides qualified
individuals, usually with a 20% or higher disability rating, funding for most training, with a stipend and
equipment (e.g., computer), after completing an approved career training plan through one of their
counselors or a contracted counselor.
7
The VA operates a career counseling service that is available to any servicemember up to six
months before separation. The program has a ceiling that Congress can raise. The program is also
using vendors that provide a one-time limited service, in contrast to the lifetime, comprehensive
MATCH solution.
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