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What do you know about Lean Manufacturing,
Total Productive Maintenance, Kaizen, or Consultative Selling?
How about Six Sigma, Process Excellence, Self-Directed Work
Teams, Risk Management or Change Management?
The JMO candidates who succeed in their career searches
understand these business concepts, but more importantly,
can relate their military background to them and bring the
topics into interviews with them.
Their secret? They read, studied, and applied the business
knowledge they learned from business books, FORTUNE
Magazine and other business periodicals. During a transition,
whether it is initial or follow-up interviews, you will
be immersed in business concepts. Your comfort level with
business concepts will help you assimilate information more
efficiently and ultimately engage recruiters in more productive
dialogue.
To be successful, you must practice reading business literature
and relating your background to what you read. When you
read a business article on risk management, ask yourself
how your background relates to process validation, compliance,
and controls. If you read a newspaper article on Lean or
Six Sigma, try to relate your background to the topic.
The skill of being able to READ and RELATE is exactly what
you will do during your interviews. Additionally, you will
learn business concepts that you can immediately apply in
your military career to achieve even more success.
If you want some great recommendations on books and periodicals,
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