The Transition Challenge
JMOs face significant challenges when transitioning into corporate America:
- Difficulty determining career path interests, e.g., sales versus operations.
- Difficulty translating military experience to civil job requirements.
- Lack of interview skills resulting in employer concerns.
These challenges result in JMOs settling for a role that leaves them unfulfilled and deflated.
The Trusted Partner
Eliminating these challenges requires a partner with expertise, tenure, and know how in helping servicemembers successfully transition to Corporate America. For over 20 years, Alliance has helped over 3K JMOs transition into corporate America. Many of our Alimni are currently serving in senior executive roles for both startups and billion dollar public companies. We underneath challenges you face and how to build you into a corporate ready candidate.
Our approach is simple:
Build a relationship with our candidates to help them better understand their motivations, options, and interests while developing their knowledge, skills, and abilities to win an opportunity and make an immediate impact.
The Alliance Way
To build a corporate ready candidate requires a process. We call it the Alliance Way. The Alliance Way is an integrated four step process:
- Select
- Develop
- Mentor
- Prepare
Select
We select ONLY the Top 10% of JMO transitioning service members. This requires a review of your performance reports and academic transcripts. Additionally, we will conduct multiple phone interviews to better understand your goals and interests. If selected, you receive a signed letter from our CEO, John Todd, welcoming you into the program.
Read more about our selection criteria by click below.
Development
Upon selection, you enter into our development and mentorship program. You are enrolled in our self-paced training program where you will receive virtual classroom instruction while interacting and networking with other candidates. We provide individual coaching sessions where we review business case studies to develop your critical thinking skills.
Mentorship
With your development on-going, we provide mentorship. We want to understand your motivations and interests, while offering guidance based on ourexperience. Every individual is different – we want to ensure your experience is contoured to your individual needs, These interactions are critical to your success by helping you understand your career alternatives.
Career Alternatives
JMOs have many career alternatives. Understanding your options is critical to choosing your next opportunity. Examples of career alternatives include but are not limited to:
- Operations
- Sales & Marketing
- Engineering
Click below to read about the different career alternatives.
Prepare
Preparation is focused on participation in our Virtual Hiring Conferences (VHCs). We prepare your resume in an easy to read, standardized format. This helps an interviewer easily connect the value of your military experiences and skills to the needs and skills of the opportunity. Additionally, we conduct mock interviews to help you best articulate how your military experience adds value to a prospective business. This facilitates common understanding of each parties needs.
Listen to an Alliance Alum, Hannah G., describe the level of preparation.
Connecting Candidates to Corporate Partners
Our corporate partners are a select group of businesses looking to hire candidates like yourself.
To connect our candidates to Corporate Partners, we conduct VHCs. VHCs are 5 days in duration beginning on Sunday night and ending Thursday evening. On Tuesday and Wednesday you interview with our Corporate Partners. Each candidate who participates is slated for no less than 6 interviews. We collect feedback from both candidates and corporate partners to facilitate the need for post conference follow ups. If a follow up is required, then the Alliance team coordinates with both partners on availability, whether virtually or on-site. If an offer is extended, we provide guidance on the types of compensation and benefits to help you understand the details.