Re-integrating Combat Vets into your Workplace

Maria Armbrust

BUAD 336, Fall 2010

Contribution for Chapter 7

Contribution #1

October 19, 2010

Re-training Combat Vets

                “Training is a planned effort by a company to facilitate the learning of employees.” (Stollak)  When it comes to training, there are many available options.  There’s on-the-job training, apprenticeship training, and off-the-job training.  When it comes to re-integrating combat vets into the workplace, they need to be re-trained for work.  A combat vet has the potential to have a lot of problems getting back to normal everyday life.  Employers must be very conscious of special needs for combat vets.  This can include re-orienting them and showing them everything that may have changed since they left, assigning them a work buddy to give them someone to report to directly with any problems or questions, or even just telling the combat vets what tasks they are supposed to do in a different way.  While combat vets are on duty, they are used to having few decisions to make and very few tasks assigned to them at one time.  It makes it very difficult for them to re-learn how to multi-task.  One option for making it easier on them is possibly writing down instructions so they don’t have to struggle to remember them.  In any case, when working with combat vets, their training needs to be individualized based on their specific needs.