Certified Veteran Career Strategist (CVCS)

What is CVCS?

The Certified Veteran Career Strategist (CVCS) program is the first in the nation to equip you to serve a misinformed market of 2.5 million veterans. You’ll guide veterans in mastering their biggest challenge: bridging a cultural gap that’s as perplexing to veterans as it is to civilian hiring managers .

Support military families as they transition from service to civilian life by helping bridge the cultural gap between active duty and the civilian world of work. Use your new understanding to help your clients thrive as they search for jobs, master interviews, and negotiate compensation.

Certified Veteran Career Strategist

Member Cost: ^$795
Non-Member Cost: ^$970

Successful CVCS Candidates Receive:
8 CEUs
Comprehensive training to bridge the cultural gap between military and civilian work environments.
Techniques to help veterans leverage their military experience in civilian job applications.
Insight into creating impactful veteran résumés and LinkedIn profiles that capture employers’ attention.
Use of “CVCS” credential after your name and a CVCS Certificate for display in your office.
Announcement of your earned credential in the PARWCC Spotlight magazine.

Register now for the opportunity that does more than give you a bigger bottom line. You’ll be serving those who have served you.

Support military families as they transition from service to civilian life
Help bridge the huge cultural gap between their lives on active duty and the civilian world of work
Learn to help veterans leverage what they learned on active duty in very different civilian jobs
Rise above the “tips & tricks” to capture and transform veterans’ success stories into proofs of ROI companies work so hard to find

Why should you join our CVCS graduates?

Access to Over 7,500,000 Potential Military Family Clients

Did you know there are over 2.5 million veterans and 5 million spouses of veterans?

On top of that, onboarding veteran clients is a stepping stone to acquiring a spouse as a client

By obtaining this certification, you have the chance to dominate an underserved applicant market!
Serve Those Who Have Servced You

Rather than one-size-fits nobody training, PARWCC offers opportunities to serve those who have served you.

Use your new understanding to help your clients thrive as they search for jobs, master interviews, and negotiate compensation.
Mitigate Cultural Disparity

Veterans need and deserve the personalized experience CVCS graduates can provide!

Your new understanding of military culture will help target, capture, and serve vets.

Course Content

Session 1

Entering the Veteran Market with Confidence: Are We Abdicating Our Market to the Uninformed?

You will build trust, understand the myths that can dissuade veterans from pursuing civilian careers, and utilize overlooked resources to help guide veterans.

Session 2

Helping Veterans Find the Best Career Field: Narrowing Down Choices

You will go through the process of helping veterans find commanding answers to the three best questions that help them define their best career options. You will also learn how to market yourself to both the less experienced veteran and the career military leader.

Session 3

Leveraging How Jobs are Created

You will be able to help veterans gain control of their futures by educating them about the creation and fulfillment of job postings to help them win the best positions.

Session 4

Enlisting Mentors to Join Your Veteran’s Team: Using Mentors’ Insights to Power Your Clients’ Brands

You will gain an understanding of how veterans find, learn from, and build lasting relationships with mentors. Your clients will benefit from mentors throughout their lifetime!

Session 5

Building the Veteran’s Brand: The Foundations.

You will be able to guide veterans to transform active duty responsibilities into civilian value propositions.

Session 6

Building the Veteran’s Brand: Résumés

You will be able to build veteran resumes that command attention and land them interviews.

Session 7

Building the Veteran’s Brand: Experience and About Sections/The Headline and Key Words

Help veterans sidestep LinkedIn’s limitations to make their brands visible and show them how to create and use their profiles effectively.

Session 8

Making the Veterans’ LinkedIn Profiles Brand Magnifiers: An Illustrated Sample Post

You will learn how veterans can employ their profiles as brand magnifiers. You’ll provide guidance on how, when, and how often your veterans should post.

Session 9

Locking in the Second Interview: Sample Email.

Thanks to you, veterans will have a way to lock in a second interview using a tool that has never failed in over 25 years.

Session 10

Pulling it All Together: Next Steps

This summary pulls it all together and shows you the next steps you can take to enhance your practice while guiding veterans to rewarding careers.

BONUS – Your Free 1-1 Consultation. Don will set aside an hour of uninterrupted time at your convenience to listen to your needs and help you put your new-found wisdom to powerful use.

Meet Your Instructor – Don Orlando

Don brings a broad and deep background ideally suited to help you dominate the veteran market. During his 27 year career as an active duty Air Force officer, he helped colleagues win promotions and key assignments. Retiring in the top two percent of officers who joined the same year he did, Colonel Orlando is known for his ability to design, develop, and deliver the most complex training packages: skills he used again to build CVCS.

No wonder the Air Force sought him out to build their first course that guides transitioning senior military leaders into the civilian workplace. His program got rave reviews for years.

Don also calls upon 50,000 hours supporting rising, senior, and very senior civilian executives—the very people who hire veterans. He specializes in C-suite positions in almost every discipline.

Don has also taught Federal résumé writing to Federal employees.

Said another way: he speaks the language of those most likely to appreciate veterans in the workplace. The CVCS program helps educate hiring officials to see veterans as the great help they strive so hard to find.

Why PARWCC? Voices from our Community

The CPRW Certification is the benchmark for being a recognized resume writer.

Investing in the continuous training and education provided by PARWCC makes me a trusted advisor…My hobby turned into a 5-figure business in one year because I invested in my education and received the career coaching credential from PARWCC.

Debraca R.

Agape Career Counseling Group

PARWCC’s extensive library of resources, networking opportunities, and career services insights have significantly enhanced my ability to deliver exceptional services to my clients…and equipped me to help job seekers achieve their career goals with confidence and expertise.

Dustin B.

417 Resume Renovators

I was fortunate to be a part of the 1st cohort of the Certified Student Career Coach (CSCC), and Dr. Saunders’ expertise, homework exercises, and her breadth of resources enhanced my understanding of the material by providing practical hands-on exercises.

Towanda W.

Coach for New Life

I’ve gotten so much value out of being part of this community! I love the monthly networking calls and webinars included in the membership, and attending the in-person Thrive! conference was truly a highlight of the year for me.

Tali S.

Bold Career Talk