Advising Student Veterans: How To Correlate Military Occupations With Career Fields

Description  Overview Unlike most freshmen on your campus, student veterans have already had four plus years of highly demanding and highly skilled work experience in an environment that involves life and death decisions. In order to help student veterans map out a 2-year or 4-year educational plan that leads to success and doesn’t waste valuable GI Bill money and time, student veteran advisors must: be familiar with the occupations that the military provides and with the responsibilities that these positions have understand how to correlate military occupations with career fields know what questions they need to ask in order to help guide student veterans as they choose their major and classes be able to identify key responses from the student veteran to help guide the advisor to the best career field for the student This webinar will explore the critical role of the advisor and provide strategies to help advisors guide student veterans through their higher education and to