The Results-Oriented Military Workplace

Military jobs, whether combat, support or administrative, are involved in a lot of detail. When military people are so engrossed in the details of their jobs, it's easy for them, for anyone actually, to lose sight of the job's major contribution.

A Results-Oriented Military Job Description is different from a traditional job description because it focuses an employee on the several job results that answer the question: What results must this military affairs job accomplish for the organization?

Military Job Standards added to job expectations tighten management controls by clarifying how well and when results must be accomplished.

Military Job Objectives establish management and employee plans by highlighting important current and future results needed.

Job-specific Military Employee Management Forms maintain consistent and militaryly sound management actions by basing manager-employee interactions on job results.

The Purpose of Military Jobs

Stated in a results-oriented, three-line style, military affairs jobs--

DEFEND NATIONAL INTERESTS AND RESOURCES by

preparing general defensive and offensive systems; assessing specific threats; establishing objectives; planning operations and operations support; executing actions.

Types of Military Jobs

Military jobs involve army, navy, coast guard, air force and marines. Within these branches of service are jobs that gather intelligence and maintain surveillance. Other jobs go into action to carry out specific missions.

Still other jobs are active in support roles, such as maintenance, communications, cooking and recordkeeping. And, of course, somebody has to manage and supervise the military people and processes.

Military Job Management Tools

Here are actual job examples of how military affairs job actions can be focused on results and kept on track using each of our job management tools:

Results-Oriented Military Job Descriptions form the foundation of all job management tools. Our uniquely structured job descriptions focus on the result to be accomplished first and prominently, followed by the duties performed in order to accomplish the result. For example,

RECOMMENDS MILITARY ACTIONS by

analyzing system controls.

Military Job Standards sharpen employee attention and management control by defining and communicating how well the military affairs results must be accomplished and what benchmarks will be used to measure job results. For example, for the job result above, the job standards might be:

• Military situations are correctly understood.
• All options are identified and evaluated.
• Military recommendations are ready when needed.

Military Job Objectives point the direction for employee actions by focusing job efforts on current and future military affairs issues. Job objectives are written in the three-line, results-oriented structure. For example, for the job result above, a job objective might be:

SPEED-UP DECISION MAKING by

reducing time to deliver military affairs recommendations by 10% by (date).

Military Employee Management Forms tied specifically to each military affairs job description are more helpful (and military) than generic forms used for all different kinds of jobs. Job-specific forms are used to state job qualifications, guide job interview questions, orient new employees, plan job training, and appraise job performance.

Military Job Qualifications are stated in the same terms used in the job description. They are not translated into generic (typically behavioral) terms. For example:

RECOMMENDS MILITARY ACTIONS by

analyzing system controls.

Military Job Interview guide questions are inserted directly below each job result in the job description: For example:

• "What specific job responsibilities have you had in this area?"
• "Where did you have these job responsibilities?"
• "When did you have these job responsibilities?"
• "How did you go about accomplishing these responsibilities?"
• "What accomplishment in this area gave you the most pride?"
• "In this area, what were some of your biggest challenges?"
• "How did you overcome the challenges?"

The Military Job Orientation guide reformats the job description sequence so that job explanations, policies, protocols, processes, and procedures are logical and complete and can easily be checked off. For example:

RECOMMENDS MILITARY ACTIONS by

analyzing system controls.

The manager might say: "Here's the procedure and format we use to analyze and present military affairs recommendations."

The Military Job Training plan guides a thorough examination of actual job knowledge, skills, and abilities as described in the job description that need improvement or that might be enhanced. For example:

RECOMMENDS MILITARY ACTIONS by

analyzing system controls.

The manager might say: "Analytical skills would be improved by enrolling in a statistical analysis class."

The Military Job Performance Appraisal guide is a job-specific form. It is not a universal form used for all jobs. The guide adds an appraisal scale below each job result in the job description so that attention can be drawn to each job requirement and expectation. For example:

RECOMMENDS MILITARY ACTIONS by

analyzing system controls.

__ Great! Just want we wanted.
__ We have a problem.
__ Improvement is needed.
__ Much, much more than we asked for.

Comments: _________________

Military Résumé Template

Potential employers want to know what a job applicant has accomplished in his/her military affairs work career. They don't want to be bored with minor details. Our Résumé Template provides:

• an outline to help assemble personal background information.
• a Results-Oriented Job Description to provide the military affairs job language-focused on results-needed to write an effective résumé.
• Military Job Objectives to orient thinking in terms of accomplishments.
• instructions on how to use a Results-Oriented Military Job Description and Military Job Objectives to express job accomplishments.

Use the military affairs job description responsibility statement as a base:

RECOMMENDS MILITARY ACTIONS by

analyzing system controls.

Select the military affairs job objective that fits your experience:

REDUCE COSTS 10% by

improving military affairs processes.

Combine the two into a résumé statement:

Reduced costs 10% by analyzing, identifying, and recommending new military affairs system controls.

Military Career Links

usajobs

Official job site of the United States federal government.

Today's Military

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KHake.com, Vocational Information Center, Military Career Guide

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Careers in the Military

What do people do in this career? In what type of environment do people in this career work? What kind and how much training is needed to enter this career? What are the opportunities for obtaining work in this career?

ArmedForcesCareers.com

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