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Improving Military-Civilian Occupation Crosswalks

• The civilian occupation surveys generated a rich database of the knowledge, skills, and abilities (KSAs) needed by Army soldiers to perform ten of the largest Army military occupational specialties (MOSs).
• Using these data, the authors were able to identify both a broader range of civilian occupations that utilize KSAs developed in the Army and higher-quality matches than existing military-civilian occupation crosswalks, such as My Next Move for Veterans.
• The best-matching civilian occupations included some that made use of common soldier KSAs that were shared by multiple MOSs, as well as others that utilized MOS-specific KSAs.
• Some occupations recommended by existing crosswalks do not match very well with the KSAs of the MOSs analyzed in this study. In part, these low-quality recommendations occurred because occupations from these crosswalks do not make use of soft skills developed in the Army, such as teamwork, leadership, and training, coaching, and mentoring others.