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PrefaceVeterans have a great deal to offer to potential civilian employers, including valuable nontechnical skills, such as leadership, decisionmaking, being dependable, and attention to detail. However, for civilian employers, understanding the nontechnical skills veterans have developed through military training, education, and on-the-job experience can be challenging, because military and civilian workplace cultures and languages can seem radically different from one another. To help address this issue, the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness asked the RAND Corporation to develop prototype tools to translate the valued nontechnical skills that enlisted personnel acquire during military service into civilian terms. This report documents one of the prototype tools, a prototype toolkit for use by civilian employers.In this toolkit, we describe how 19 general skills, important to civilian job success, are developed through on-the-job experience and selected formal military education courses for enlisted personnel in the Army and Marine Corps in selected combat arms occupations. The methodology used to develop the prototype toolkit is detailed in a separate report (available at www.rand.org/t/RR1919). Further, a high-level summary of this toolkit for employers is also available in a separate handout (www.rand.org/t/TL160z5).This prototype toolkit is intended as a packet of materials that can help employers better understand the important general civilian job-related skills that veterans may develop through on-the-job experience and formal courses. The packet begins with a letter from the Office of the...