✅ Final Thoughts Friday for 2025-06-20
Exploring the US Army Reserve's recruitment challenges and innovative talent strategies at SXSW 2024.
🪖 + 🧑💻 The story that caught my eye this week was the US Army Reserve’s Detachment 201.
https://www.techmeme.com/250613/p10#a250613p10
At SXSW 2024, I attended a fireside chat on “Cyber Talent in the Era of Great Power Competition“. The talk was interesting and I took a few notes in my Obsidian.
Here’s the YouTube video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iecffd3h0EI?feature=shared
My notes:
- 77% of our youth is ineligible to serve
- Propensity to Serve is key.
- SCIF work is the workplace.
- Hotspots exist.
- If that exists it can now enable a unique talent for no uniform roles as part of an attractive benefits, work flexibility, competitive compensation, and retention bonuses.
- Total compensation package to go full uniform is differentiated through healthcare and savings plans for military.
- As of late 2023, Constructive Service Credit expansion includes R&D (up to Colonel) to solve big challenges.
- Off ramp and on ramp paths are becoming more flexible.
- Cyber and intelligence will be drawn from industry.
- Find us and we will find a way for you to serve.
- Example: Civilian to OTS to Major is 10 years and this approach does it in 6 months.
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