Transitioning from Military to Civilian – Via SHRM!
Jun 15 2010
Military veterans seeking civilian jobs and HR managers looking to recruit them will gather June 26-27 at the San Diego Convention Center in California to learn how to network with one another, translate the military and corporate lingo that separates them, and adjust to workplace cultural differences.
The military-focused program, “Military Veterans: Transitioning Skills to the New Economy” is a first for the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) and will debut during the SHRM 2010 Annual Conference & Exposition to address the recruitment and retention issues for U.S. military veterans.
The event is free for military personnel and veterans (preregistration required). Among HR professionals, registration for the military program is free but open only to those already registered to attend the SHRM conference at large.
Military participants include the:
- Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve (ESGR);
- Veteran’s Employment & Training Service (VETS, a Department of Labor program);
- Employer Partnership of the Armed Forces; and
- Office of Disability Employment Policy (ODEP, a Department of Labor program)
The keynote speaker lineup will include Eric Greitens, a Navy SEAL officer, Rhodes and Truman scholar, Draper Richards Fellow, White House Fellow, and founder and chairman of The Mission Continues.
Other speakers from private-sector companies, the ESGR, the VETS, the ODEP, and the Employer Partnership of the Armed Forces will be announced as confirmed.
