Download - Veteran’s Career Development
Veteran’s Career DevelopmentJohn Merladet, Ph.D., MBA, L.P.
Psychologist CWT/Polytrauma Program
Steve Koenig, MBA, PMP, Lean Six SigmaDeluxe Corporation &
MN Army National Guard, Staff Sergeant
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Who is Dr. Merladet -- www.cwt.va.gov• Screenings for VA Re-employment program
• Interventions: Coaching Psychology, MI, PS, ACT
• Employer Consultation and Training in HR
• Post Secondary Guidance
• Assessments: Developmental, Personality and Career
• Adjunct Instructor Argosy University: IO Psychology and the Business School
• Summit Leadership Consulting
Who is Steve Koenig
• 16 Year Veteran of the Army and Minnesota National Guard
• Successful Entrepreneur and Businessman• Local Resident, Family Man and Volunteer• MBA• PMP• Lean Six Sigma
Agenda for Today
• What is career development related to vets.• How does the Military influence the process.• Examine some career forestalls seen in todays
OEF/OIF/OND Veterans.• How can one be a change agent in a vet’s
career path.• Q&A
The Veteran Experience
by Ad Counsel
Why is this Important now
• We are living in a VUCA WorldEric. G. Kail, -United States Military Academy-Currently the course director for our military leadership instruction within the Department of Behavioral Sciences & Leadership -Battalion Commander at 1st Battalion, 38th Field Artillery Regiment Colonel
V— VariabilityU— UncertaintyC— Chaotic A— Ambiguity
The Struggle
ConfidenceSelf efficacy
ResiliencyCareer Maturity
CAPABILITY
Choice
Establishing
an identity
Integrity
AUTONOMY
Competence
What did Walt Disney and Christopher Columbus have in Common with what todays talent needs?
And
1930s 1400s
Types of jobs that will be in demand for a long time to come
• the great corroborators• the great leveragers• the great synthesizers• the passionate personalizers • the great localizers • the “green ones” • the great explainers and • the great adapters.
From This
To That
Or this…
Consequence Is that…
Paul Potts Sings Nessun Dorma
Career Theory In Review
ParsonsDawis/LofquistHollandSuperKrumboltz
Gottfredson
– Trait and Factor– Theory of Work Adjustment– Person-Environment Matching– Life Span/Life Space– Social Learning Theory of Career
Decision Making / Learning Theory of Career Counseling
– Circumscription, Compromise, and Self-Creation
Third Generation
Lent, Brown, & Hackett
Peterson, Sampson, Reardon, & Lenz
Hansen
Brown
– Social Cognitive Career Theory (SCCT)
– Cognitive Information Processing (CIP)
– Integrative Life Planning (ILP)
– Holistic/Values Based
Post Modern
Sue & Sue
Young & Cochran
Hansen
Miller
– Diverse populations/identity/gender/GLBT/ Diversity Management
– Contextualization & Construtivits
– Integrative Life Planning (ILP)
– Hapanstance/Chance in Career choice
Steve’s stuff
World of Work Effects
Father Knows Best . . .
Continue with John’s stuff
SchoolAnd
Take home points
Psychological Inflexibility when addressing back to school
• Too Old• Not smart enough• What if I get into an argument• I don’t fit in• I’ll get flashbacks• Fear and no confidence• They are too young• I don’t like crowds• I have memory problems• I feel like a freshman
Competency v Confidence • Transition Difficulties.• Peer Engagement.• Mental Health Needs of the
veteran.• Academic Preparedness
(specialized tutors).• Financial Aid/Benefits• Early experiences in school.• Perceived self efficacy about
achievement in general.
Veteran Feedback Post First Semester in Post Secondary
• “I absorb energy from the other students…”• “Average age is 31… just like me…”• “I feel so much better…”• “I am first one in class so I can rule out the students coming in as
not threats…its also gives me a chance to relax before class time…”• “I like learning…”• “I sit as close to the professor to keep focused…in HS I would move
away from teachers...the further the better…”• “I sit in front of class to make speeches in speech class, standing at
podium gives me flashbacks backs…”
CASE EXAMPLES
What About Veterans with DisabilitiesReturning to Work & School
Can he work?
Evidenced Based Supported Employment
Assume Employability Early in Treatment Assertive Engagement and Outreach
Ongoing Assessment in the Context of Treatment; all stakeholders Involved
Employment Outcomes are a Function of Rehabilitation and Treatment
Zero Exclusion
Integration of Voc Rehab with Treatment
Competitive Employment
Benefits Counseling
Rapid Job Search
Follow-along Supports
Elimination of Readiness Criteria for Access to Employment
The Only Criteria for Supported Employment is the Desire to Work
Build Confidence About One’s Ability to Work Through Encouragement and Support
Promoting Active Treatment and Dignity of Risk in Pursuing Normative Life Experiences / Employment
Supported Education• Civilian SEd programs embedded in health care host
institutions have shown effectiveness both in SEd models with loose collaboration (health facility mobile vans bring their clients to campuses and provide ongoing support to attend mainstream classes and to broker with college staff/services) and close collaboration with post-secondary institutions (health institution staff have an established office on campus, college faculty come to the health care facility to conduct self-contained cohort academic readiness classes, college faculty offer self-contained cohort classes to the health institution’s identified patients, etc.).
This could be you. The Encourager of Others!
ABILITIESGIFTSTALENTS
Encouragement
PassionDreamsGoals
Possibilities
Achievement Purpose
Breakthroughs
Denny StockdaleVisionary
Encouragement• Being honest• Confidential• Listening with open heart and mind• Constructive feedback• Ask questions to clarify understating• Compassion• Without for too much accountability • Remember strengths• Focusing on the can-do’s
A shift in paradigm
Not • what’s wrong,
but what’s right!• what’s missing,
but what’s there!• about a
destination, but a journey!