Skillbridge

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Our Mission

Translate military experience into key performance indicators (KPIs) that identifies a veteran’s current supervisor capacity and range of occupational talents to establish their professional value and compensation package.

POWERED BY “PREP” — PREDICTIVE EMPLOYMENT PLACEMENT PROGRAM

(Transition accuracy through live training with employers)

About PREP Skillbridge

The PREP program eliminates resume barriers, validates experience, and identifies additional occupational talents to create accurate job placement and compensation, and provides exclusive access to quality-of-life benefits for transitioning military personnel.

PREP Consult

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Skillbridge Approval

Process

Enter PREP

Timeline

Participants are

CONTRACTED

for training first.

Within 1040 hrs (6 months) they are

TRAINED

and measured in real life small unit leadership roles..

So they can be accurately

PLACED

in $5 to $15 million operational units with verified talent and aligned compensation.

PROFESSIONAL KPIs & OCCUPATIONAL TALENTS

Professional KPI Results = Base Supervisor Value

Occupational Talents = Enhancements to Supervisor Value

  • PROJECT UNDERSTANDING

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    A critical thinking fundamental for all supervisory roles. Represents a person's ability to effectively grasp project scale, scope, risks, and potential rewards based on project KPls. Project KPIs are identified by senior management, vetted by the client, and used to track project progress (e.g. timeline, cost, safety, security, resources, logistics, manpower, variables, etc.).

  • COMMUNICATIONS

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    A critical thinking skill fundamental for all supervisory roles. Represents a person's ability to effectively grasp the chain of communications vertically (e.g. up and down) and laterally (e.g. internal & external stakeholders). Includes accounting for the priority and impact on entire chain of communication (e.g. who, what, when, where and most importantly WHY).

  • TIME MANAGEMENT

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    A critical thinking skill fundamental for all supervisory roles. Represents a person's ability to proactively plan for and manage project steps necessary for meeting or improving the project's overall time to completion set in the project KPls.

  • COST MANAGEMENT

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    A critical thinking skill fundamental for all supervisory roles. Represents a person's ability to maintain awareness of project costs during execution (both pluses & minuses) against the project budget. A supervisor with this skill can logically work through the cost impact of unexpected variables before initiating the solution.

  • CLIENT AWARENESS

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    An advanced professional talent representing the depth of client understanding both personally and professionally (e.g. habits, expectations, goals, means of interaction & communication). Measured in the strength of relationship and line of communication openness. "If this were your company, what would you do?"

  • SKILLED TRADES APPLICATION

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    An advanced leadership talent representing the range of awareness for appropriate resources available to a given project, and the ability to find additional resources when an unexpected variable arises. "You know what they do, how they do it, why they are doing it, and when they should do it."

  • SOURCING & LOGISTICS

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    An advanced leadership talent for proactively managing the material needs of a project while keeping the project timeline and budget KPls in mind. We live by the saying, "Game time is coming... don't be surprised by the kickoff."

  • PROJECT ANALYSIS & PROPOSALS

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    An advanced cumulative use of the first three Occupational Talents and all Professional KPI fundamentals to deliver a clear and concise proposal with a reasonable and easily understood solution. "Selling just based on price is not a talent. Creating the best solution is..!

  • PROJECT PLAN COMPREHENSION

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    An advanced cumulative use of the first four Occupational Talents and all Professional KPI fundamentals to meet or exceed project goals, objectives, expectations, and final deliverable. "You know what to do, how to do it, when to do it, and most importantly WHY to do it."

  • PROJECT MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS

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    A proactive and fluid depth of use of a project management and/or customer management software to effectively streamline the entire line of communications (vertically and laterally) along with project accounting to build long-term client relationships. "Demonstrate that you are on top of your game...EVERY GAME!"

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Here's What You'll Need

  • PREP consult

  • Unit CO approval for Skillbridge (6 month's prior to contact start)

  • Identified as competitive with your peers and ontrack for promotion or honorable discharge

  • PREP training contract with official start date

  • PREP official commitment letter

What To Expect

Every PREP graduate is a leader of people and projects first. It is their every day routine. Their specialty is effective command of occupational talents. This is where they create the greatest financial return for their team, their peers, their company, AND their family.

Compensation during PREP Skillbridge:

  • You keep your base salary

  • You keep your allowance for housing (plus COLA)

  • You keep all of your military benefits

Compensation after PREP:

  • You keep your base salary

  • You keep your allowance for housing (plus COLA)

  • You keep all of your military benefits

Get Started

If you are interested in learning more about SkillBridge opportunities with L5 Construction, reach out to our team to start the conversation.

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