-: Get your job based on your technical skill set,
not necessarily your management skill set,
it's just not the model,
we don't have a heavy management organization
in any of the defense contractors,
so it's not the model that we kind of
grow our organization based on, but,
if you have a sustained technical skill
get your position with that skill
and then underpin that with the management,
and if you do that, you're gonna move up pretty quickly.
But to just base your resume on your management skills
and assume that you'll land in a position
equivalent to the one that you had in the military,
it's tough to do,
because a lot of folks that have been in the service
for 20, 25 years, they stopped doing technical work
about 10 years ago, so it's tough for them
to translate skills that they have now
into applicable, equal positions.
Now, what I've found out is, a lot of folks,
they'll choose to take a step back, or maybe two steps back,
they'll go back into the analysis world,
they'll go back into those tools
that they've used in the past
because they have those niche skills.
They become an analyst,
and they become a really good analyst
because they've been doing it for quite some time,
and they start to mentor others,
and that positions them into leadership positions
both within the company or on the program.