Dstl is leading a new initiative offering second career options to former personnel through STEM skills and military experience.
The technical experience gained by veterans during their military service will pave the way for second careers, according to a new scheme run by Dstl which will fund STEM skills. The project is led by Dstl as the biggest user of science skills in MOD.
Many veterans now have a technical background or specialist skills, and Dstl wants to harness those skills, as part of what’s known as the ‘enterprise approach’. Dstl took an existing platform, Talent Retention Solutions (TRS), a not-for-profit organisation which has worked to retain STEM skills for Government for other departments and created a Defence-branded pilot website.
Dstl: Official partner of DPRTE 2020.
DASA Chief of Staff Nicholas Barsby said: “My role is to bring the experiences and skills that I learnt from my full career and try and help out the people here to do their job in delivering innovation. I was really privileged to be able to help out, in my final years, with both Afghanistan and Iraq bringing in some urgent operational requirements which directly saved lives.”
“It’s that focus and energy which I saw then being applied to help those guys out in the field that I was very pleased to support and doing so again now in a different way.”
The site is now live, with roles across the Air, Sea and Land domains, as well as niche and scarce skills. It’s possible the platform could be extended to multiple Defence STEM employers.
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