Learning Objective: Increase knowledge awareness of employment opportunities for veterans in the energy field When you get past the defense department jargon, it’s clear that the men and women returning from military service bring with them an array of skills, invaluable experience, and a work ethic second to none on the globe. Veterans return home to the United States with the knowledge that they have proven themselves in some of the most challenging remote environments in the world. Military veterans, regardless of their particular areas of service, have all had: • Intensive exposure to advanced technologies, even in careers in traditional "ground-pounder" forces. • Extensive, government-paid education and training, in some of the world's best schools. • Long experience working in remote, outdoor environments • Extensive familiarity with jobs requiring work shifts longer than the traditional, eight-hour workday, and • A highly developed sense of personal responsibility for the lives, welfare and safety of their colleagues, because of their training, operational requirements and the exposure of facing off against hostile foreign forces, while often at the same time facing up to unpredictable weather forces that often seem equally hostile. This workshop will attract high interest from senior military officers as well as line and staff officer attendees. At the end of this seminar, participants will be able to: a. Examine strategies to discern the military resume and qualifications. b. Explore the skillsets that military veterans can add to the corporate environment. c. Discuss recruitment techniques for increasing veterans in the energy workforce.

1. RETURNING MILITARY
VETERANS
How Do They Fit In?

2. Agenda
• Introduction of panel members
• Goals
• Identify the official definition of a Veteran
• Discuss statistics on veterans
• Benefits/Issues of Veteran Employment
• Panel discussion

3. Panel Members
• Aaron LeMay
– Military Recruiter at Exelon Corporation
• Renee Reynolds
– Civilian at Naval Sea Systems
Command
– Former Naval Officer

4. Goals
At the end of this seminar, participants will be able
to:
• Increase knowledge awareness of
employment opportunities for veterans
• Examine strategies to discern the military
resume and qualifications.
• Explore the skillsets that military veterans can add to
the corporate environment.
• Discuss recruitment techniques for increasing
veterans in the workforce.

5. What is a Military Veteran?
An individual who served in the active military, naval, or
air service and who was discharged or released under
conditions other than dishonorable.
• Active duty
• Any period of active or inactive duty for training
during which a person is disabled or dies from
• Any part-time, Reservist, National Guard, or Active
Guard/Reserves (AGR)
*Source: www.va.gov

6. Statistics - Reintegration

7. Statistics - Employment

8. Statistics - Education

9. Benefits of Veteran Employees
• Exposure to advanced technologies
• Government-paid education and training
• Experience working in remote, outdoor, and/or
abnormal environments (“Semper Gumby”)
• Familiarity with jobs requiring untraditional shifts
• Developed sense of personal responsibility
• Practical diversity
• Team player
• Instant network
• Ability to learn quickly

10. Issues with Veterans and Employment
• Not properly translating their experiences into civilian
terms
• Disregarding their employment and not being
able to identify viable work experience
• Issues with connecting with employers
• Potential reintegration issues
• Being realistic about your worth

11. How to Bridge the Gap
The Veteran The Employer
Complete a transition assistance
program or finding resources that can
assist in resources for transition
Relating to people who do not know or
understand what military personnel
have experienced
Complete a transition assistance
program or finding resources that can
assist in translating experiences into
civilian terms; using resources such as
SMART Transcripts
Work with veteran organizations to
understand certain aspects of veteran
experience; do not allow a word search
finder to scan all resumes
Self-creating structure Providing a safe and consistent work
environment
Adjust to a different pace of life and
work
Providing a safe and consistent work
environment
Ask questions about employer provided
services and benefits and do research
Explanation of services and benefits
such as health care, dental, and 401K

12. • Joint Service Transcript (JST)/Sailor-Marine American Council On Education Registry
Transcript (SMART)
– https://www.navycollege.navy.mil/smart_info.aspx
• Veterans Employment Toolkit
– http://www.va.gov/vetsinworkplace/challenges.asp
• VMET (Verification of Military Education and Training)
– https://www.dmdc.osd.mil/tgps/
• Wounded Warrior Project
– http://www.woundedwarriorproject.org/
• 8 Battlefield Skills That Make Reintegration Challenging
– http://www.realwarriors.net/active/afterdeployment/combatskills.php
Resources toHelp Employers
and Veterans with Reintegration

13. • American Corporate Partners
– http://acp-usa.org
• Center for Energy Workforce Development
– http://www.cewd.org/index.php
• Employer Road Map
– http://www.employerroadmap.org
• Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve
– http://www.esgr.mil
• Vets.gov
– https://www.vets.gov/veterans-employment-center/
– https://www.navycollege.navy.mil/smart_info.aspx
Resources toHelp Employers
and Veterans with Reintegration (Cont.)