Candidate FAQ

A Department of War program that lets you spend up to your last 180 days of active duty interning, training, or apprenticing with a civilian employer — while keeping full military pay and benefits. The employer gets to evaluate you; you get civilian experience before your last day in uniform.

Generally: active-duty service members within 180 days of separation or retirement, with commander approval. Each service has its own rules and paperwork on top of that. Your unit's transition counselor is the authority — start the conversation early, because command approval is the long pole.

You can search and talk to employers any time, but you cannot start a program without your commander's sign-off. Our application form asks where your approval stands so employers know your timeline honestly.

No — it's a tryout, not a contract. That's exactly why we publish response rates, activity signals, and candidate reviews: so you spend your one shot on an employer who actually engages and hires.

No. We index the public data from skillbridge.mil daily and add the trust layer — response rates, activity status, reviews, and the Health Score. Always verify details with the program's point of contact and your counselor.

A 0–100 read on each employer computed from veteran-hiring commitment, candidate experience, transparency, and external signals — never pay-to-play, and missing data never counts against an employer. Full methodology at /health-score.

We check every employer's contact-email domain nightly. If mail to that domain can't be delivered (confirmed by DNS on two independent resolvers), we say so — because emailing a dead mailbox is the single biggest waste of a transition timeline.

It's the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics wage range (25th–75th percentile) for the occupation field the program leads into — a field estimate with its source cited, not the employer's offer.

Browsing is open to everyone. Applying, expressing interest, messaging, and publishing to the talent pool need a free account (create one — email or Google) so your applications and tracker follow you across devices.

Your transition profile is private. If you publish a talent-pool card, employers can find it and invite you to their postings — and once published, it stays searchable. Employers can only message you after you've applied, expressed interest, or accepted an invite, and you can mute any employer permanently.

No. We never store resume files. Your structured profile — MOS, clearance, availability, certifications, a why-I'll-succeed statement — is what employers see, and it's what they told us they actually read.