Manning Control Points – Would these work in the private sector?

Posted on August 27, 2010

The Army is closer to full strength than it has been for a number of years. Within that total number the Army needs to ensure that it has the right balance of skills in certain trades and experience, in terms of length of service, rank, performance and long-term potential, to meet the challenges of current operations in Afghanistan. Read the full article …

Selling skills gained in the Services

Posted on August 16, 2010

Apart from the UKTI Defence and Security Organisation (UKTI DSO), the successor to the Defence Export Services Organisation, people in the Services rarely become involved in selling, but they do a great deal of buying – from expensive machinery like aircraft and ships at one end of the spectrum to local contracts on operations and exercises abroad. The two functions have many things in common, and nowadays each will often be a stakeholder in the other’s business – trying for the deal that satisfies both and will generate repeat business. Read the full article …

Best trained work force in Britain

Posted on August 11, 2010

Service leavers from HM Forces posses the skills many civvy street Corporates lack? Bold statement? Let’s see…..

Leadership – while highly regarded in Civvy Street (CS) surely a military life in “theatre” beats CS? Read the full article …

Employers should use armed services leavers more

Posted on August 10, 2010

Is it just me or are we missing a trick here? Our service leavers, off whom the numbers will grow this year to record levels, are often the best time keepers, disciplined, hardest working, excellent man management skills / trained, and, innovative because “they have to be in theatre” – why are they not being snapped up in Civvy Street? My answer – employers don’t want to know – they are not tuned in to this skill set. If they have never “sold a service” they could never compete with civilian experience!? I think not, and I,m a civvie. Lets look wider and longer. Thoughts? Read the full article …