Do you remember when as a kid you would go scrumping, climb over that fence in the neighbourhood, you know the one with the fruit trees the other side, then pinch as many as you could in the time that you dared stay there?  Then back over the fence and off down the street to swap fruit and tales with your friends. Well that was you getting outside of your comfort zone; it didn’t feel 100% right, in fact, you knew it...

It certainly is when you don’t understand it. And that for me was the situation I was in when I was fresh from the Army trying to get a job. The first stumbling block for me was the language, people talk in jargon, I think we all do it and not necessarily through conscious thought. The military is especially bad for it, anachronisms are used a lot; a prime example is SOP’s (Standard Operating Procedures). In fact, if you stop...

The transition from military to civlian life is not easy and you should be prepared for some trying times. On occasion, ex military personnel will find themselves in an environment that is not what they expected, here we are talking about a work environment, but this could equally apply anywhere. How will you recognise when this happens to you?  That’s not such a silly question because it’s easy to be caught off guard. So what...