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Here's What Veterans are Saying...

 

I have found this project very engaging and mentally stimulating. It is actually helping me to narrow my scope of possible avenues to transition to post retirement from service, and think of avenues that I have never considered. I have taken time as well to start rereading through all of my military schools evaluation reports that you receive upon graduation, and compared them to the survey which is giving me a better understanding of self and the surveys. I don't know Karl's motive entirely for calling but THANK YOU!! Having taken every chance I get to read and reread the survey, and now starting the new one, I find that having linked up with Karl and now you has been well worth everything I've had to struggle through the last three years and realizing my transition into a new career after 20 years has become less stressful already just based on our several sessions. Initially I was stand offish, but now I am very thankful to the both of you. I understand that this is a project, but in my reality it is my life and my future. I have seen people struggle to find that job they fit in and/or enjoyed. I didn't want to enter the "rat race" like that. If nothing else comes of this, I will walk away with a knowledge that I did not have and that the DOD and Army prepare you for. Nothing I have sat in during my mandatory transition briefings has remotely touched anything we have done within our few sessions. If that is the intent of the program we are moving in the right direction, in my opinion. The rest of the project I believe will work itself out and we can work out any kinks in it as they develop, but as of present I have learned more from the both of you than the dozen or so briefings I've sat in as a retiree.  I really appreciate that, and sometimes the simplest changes have the biggest impact, and I am one to give credit where it is due, so THANK YOU BOTH. I'm sure you had a bunch of candidates, but I am glad you chose me.

 

I hope you both have great days today. Look forward to our next session next week.

 

Very Respectfully,

Walter Gonzalez

SFC, US Army 

 

 

 

It took me about 30 seconds to realize the impact iVetX could have on the veteran community. I quickly associated it to my life and realized that there wasn’t anything “wrong with me” as others and I had assumed, I was just operating too far outside of my personal behaviors and motivators to feel comfortable in the rest of my life. It wasn’t until I read through my Talent Report and applied it to my life that I realized the times I had excelled and, more, why I excelled the way I did in those moments.

 

When I look back on that moment, standing on the side of the road next to my Jeep the day I was discharged from the Marines, I realize the one thing I was lacking more than anything else. Clarity. It wasn’t that I didn’t have the drive, the vision, the dedication. The Marines had taught me more about what I was capable of accomplishing, personal boundaries I was capable of demolishing, but it didn’t offer me anything by way of “what do I do now?” and it sure didn’t offer me direction for the real world. However, everyone around me was always giving me life suggestion, not really knowing who “I” was.

 

I would have been a miserable police officer. I was a miserable phone salesman. I didn’t put any focus on education because there wasn’t a correlating goal. I believe if I could have the tools that iVetX offers veterans today and a short session with my current self, I could have saved everyone a lot of pain and discomfort. Mainly myself. I believe I would have chose an education in business management if I had just known what the goal was. I don’t believe that path would be ideal for everyone, but for me, it would have been clear as day if iVetX had been in the picture.

 

Not only can iVetX do a lot of good. It can alleviate a lot of pain. I’ve given the extremely condensed version of my life, but there were numerous failed ventures contained within my life that I don’t feel would add benefit to the overall story. Every one of them came with a lot of hope and ended with a lot of disappointment. Not one single time was I commended on my effort for trying. The only time in my life I was ever reinforced for “being me” was when I read my Talent Report.

 

Perhaps it’s not a coincidence that this is the only assessment that measures in the negative direction and not just the positive. I’ve known what I was good at for a long time, but I never knew how to measure what I wasn’t good at. Through the iVetX Talent Report my failures have become my greatest asset.

 

David Kendall

USMC Veteran

 

 

This is a excellent program. I took the assessment on the 3rd of December and did my debrief last night. The information provided via webcast and phone was extremely helpful in my pursuit of a new career. I highly recommend their services

 

 

Jeremie Hill, U.S. Army (Ret)

Logistics, Transportation and Commissioner for Dangerous Goods

I want to thank for the services that you provided this afternoon. Additionally, I recommend that others seek your services and complete the assessment as a tool for exploring desired employment benefits or characteristics that may have previously been unknown. The results of my assessment confirmed vocational attributes that military service structure does not individually consider. 


I look forward to your services and recommendations as I prepare for military retirement and transition into my next career. 

Thanks for the services that you've offered to myself and fellow veterans, your assistance is greatly appreciated. 

 

Robert Kendall

Operations NCO - Transitioning to Retirement at 203rd Military Police Battalion

 

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