Reason #3 to Hire a Veteran

How many of you as a supervisor or business owner have had an employee who, no matter how many times you explained it or showed it to them, never actually got the concept of what it is you were trying to get them to do? For many civilians the learning curve can be a bit frustrating for the boss but not necessarily so when you ask a Veteran to do the job.

As a Veteran we are trained from the first day onward to learn and learn fast. It is ingrained into our psyche. Your missions success or failure may very well depend on how fast you learn a particular aspect of your job. It is a critical component of the military to be able to learn how to do your job and learn it quickly because what you are doing today may not be what you are doing tomorrow.

In the civilian world being able to learn the job and learn it quickly can mean the difference between being the general laborer of the manufacturing facility who makes perhaps $9 - $11 an hour and being the machine operator or forklift driver and making significantly more. Civilians have never had to truly worry about learning a job as quickly as the boss would like them to. They have time to study and read manuals and learn the basics of what it is they are being asked to do. A Veteran, in less time, can most likely learn how to operate the machine and do it right the first time and do it with confidence that oft times is lacking in the civilian employee. A Veteran is not going to approach it with timidity and worry about screwing it up. The Veteran will approach the new job with a confidence born on the anvil of military service and take that job by the horns and commit themselves 100% to getting it done and done right. Civilians are more apt to be worried about looking bad in front of the boss whereas a Veteran will not have that problem. The confidence they have of being able to learn a job and get it right the first time comes from the fact that as a member of the military their troops and friends lives depended upon this very basic aspect of military service. It's second nature to us and unlike a civilian we don't sweat the problem by being worried about what if's. The time for second guessing can come AFTER the job/mission is done.