Transitioning from the military to civilian life can be a challenge. After spending four years or more in the service of our country, those leaving the military have to decide what roads to take to shape the rest of their lives.
With that in mind Cindy Pasky and Ken Huxley, Southwest branch manager and a retired Air Force colonel), collaborated and developed S3’s first Military Pilot Program (aka the S3 Combat Recruiting Support Team). Under that program four former military people joined S3 as sourcers in the San Antonio office.
“The military requires its people to think fast, learn quickly, adapt easily, build solid relationships and have strong ethics and that fits S3 to a T,” Pasky said. “We are so pleased to have this new team onboard and are confident they will be able to bring many former military people onboard as consultants.
“Military people know the value of teamwork, and of being resourceful,” she said, pointing out that more than 70% of Fortune 1000 executives are former military members. “We welcome them to S3 and our ‘Go Green’ culture.”
The new team is working out of the Southwest Branch, but they’ll provide sourcing support for branches across the company.
“The focus for our program is to get talented people from the military and help them become recruiters,” Huxley said. “We will grow from within.
“We offered them the opportunity to come in and learn sourcing from ground up. The team is in a sourcing role so they can learn the technology and get the lay of land. Then, as they get experience with customers across country, they will transition from sourcer to junior recruiter and then senior recruiter,” he said. “While joint military operations are typically coded purple, these guys are already S3 Green.”
