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For starters, Dr. Thomas Easterly, known as the Army\u2019s \u201cAI Guy,\u201d has recommended that soldiers transitioning out of the military and looking for a job<\/a> might want to try turning artificial intelligence loose on the information in their DD-214s. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Think of it as \u201cusing AI to navigate your next mission,\u201d Easterly said in a June 29 podcast of the Army\u2019s Transition Assistance Program. Troops<\/a> can feed information from the DD-214, the record of military service, into AI \u2014 minus the Social Security number and other identifiers \u2014 and give it prompts to decipher what jobs might be suitable, how much those jobs pay and what the chances might be for getting hired<\/a>, he added. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the process, transitioning soldiers should ditch the mindset that AI is a job-killing obstacle to overcome and instead think of it as a tool \u201cthat can support your transition,\u201d said Easterly, director of the Plans, Analysis and Integration Office at Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

About 200,000 service members<\/a> \u2014 100,000 from the Army alone \u2014 leave the military each year, and this year they are entering a jobs market in flux, with the long-term effects of AI anybody\u2019s guess. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics<\/a>, only 57,000 jobs were created in June, about half of what Wall Street analysts had expected in the current low-hire, low fire jobs market. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The impact of AI, which some have compared to the vast societal changes brought about by the Industrial Revolution, hasn\u2019t yet produced the job apocalypse feared by many, but in May U.S employers cut 97,006 jobs, an increase of 16% over the 83,387 jobs cut in April, according to a report<\/a> from the global outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The report showed that \u201cAI is now the leading reason companies give for cutting jobs and the primary industry citing it is technology,\u201d Andy Challenger, chief revenue officer for the Challenger firm, said in the report. \u201cThe open question isn\u2019t whether AI changes the workforce, but how fast.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The AI issue will become all too real in a few days for Navy Lt. Cmdr. Alvin Carr, 34, a U.S. Naval Academy graduate, when he leaves the military at the end of July after 13 years in the sea service, mostly in human resources. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI think I definitely saw that AI was a tool that was being widely adopted\u201d by employers in their recruiting and screening efforts, Carr said in a phone interview with Military Times, but \u201cI don\u2019t think I had the awareness of the impact of AI on the job market that I have now.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI heard it\u2019s going to be a tough,\u201d Carr added, noting that he was still confident that \u201cI shouldn\u2019t have to struggle too much,\u201d given his degree from Annapolis and the masters in business administration he earned during his time in service. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Soldiers, veterans and family members speak with employers during a Fort Drum Soldier for Life \u2013 Transition Assistance Program career fair. (Mike Strasser\/Fort Drum Garrison Public Affairs)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Carr is one of the transitioning service members who has sought the help of career \u201ccoaches\u201d at the Wounded Warrior Project, where Lesly Marmolejos is a career transition manager for WWP\u2019s Warriors to Work program. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her first task in meeting with newcomers to the program is to disabuse them of what they think they already know about AI. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIf you tell me you\u2019re an expert in AI, I know you\u2019re lying,\u201d Marmolejos said in a phone interview with Military Times. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a \u201ccoach,\u201d Marmolejos said one of the first things she tells transitioning troops is that there\u2019s \u201cnot any type of certification you can get in AI. Well, there is, but it would be irrelevant in a month.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite all the emphasis on being tech proficient, \u201cI still very much believe that the human side of the hiring process is very important,\u201d she said. \u201cThe feedback that I\u2019m getting is that while we have to learn how to use AI as part of the employment process, we still matter. If you talk to a [jobs] recruiter, they\u2019ll say the same thing.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Networking is still a major component of the job search, Marmolejos added, and \u201cwe still encourage [service members] to go to job fairs. Who you know matters, and who can give you a referral still matters. I don\u2019t think [AI is] the big bad wolf everyone\u2019s making it out to be.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a separate phone interview with Military Times, Jacob Mousseau, a former Army sergeant and a coaching colleague of Marmolejos at WWP, said, \u201cNew people need to get over their fear\u201d of AI and stop doomscrolling on how AI is going to make humans in the workforce obsolete. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mousseau echoed Marmolejos in stressing the importance of networking, calling it \u201ccritical this year more than ever.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

He has developed his own five-step strategy for assisting transitioning service members in their job search, beginning with career exploration by using AI to turn \u201can assessment into a personalized roadmap \u2014 realistic pathways, salary ranges, target organizations, a 30-day plan to explore before committing.\u201c <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI use it to build deep, individualized guides for warriors,\u201d Mousseau added, \u201cand I teach them to run a lighter version themselves so they can keep exploring on their own.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A person walks past the Department of Veterans Affairs headquarters in Washington, March 2025. (Chip Somodevilla\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Another perspective was offered by Ben Dufay, a veteran of both the Army and Navy who now is director of career preparation and training at the D\u2019Aniello Institute for Veterans and Military Families at Syracuse University. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe\u2019re transitioning into an environment where even people in the environment don\u2019t know what\u2019s going on,\u201d Dufay said of the impact of AI on employers as well as job seekers. \u201cEverybody knows somebody who\u2019s been laid off. Employers don\u2019t know what they want out of AI. It is disrupting stuff. … Transition has always been something of a guessing game. That hasn\u2019t changed.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

AI\u2019s impact has only added to the traditional list of questions transitioning service members have, he noted. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know what AI is. How does it help me?\u201d Dufay stated, citing common questions. \u201cHow can I use it to assist me? What\u2019s going to get me into an interview? How do you continue to engage with it, leverage it?\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Transitioning service members will also be facing a jobs market where an employer will occasionally decide that going with AI for a certain task was the wrong move, as happened with the Ford Motor Co. last month. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a June 29 press call, Charles Poon, Ford\u2019s vice president of Vehicle Hardware Engineering, said that AI had botched the job of quality control. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Poon called for about 300-350 engineers to be hired to clean up the mess. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMistakenly, we thought that by just introducing artificial intelligence and ingesting the design requirements that we had, that that would produce a high-quality product,\u201d Poon said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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