a broad range of personal and professional benefits, feedback, guidance and advice through live which ultimately leads to improved performance in conversations,” said Evan Guzman, Veterati’s the workplace.” development director. “This past year, Veterati helped Citroën also said that since 80% of new jobs come thousands of service members and military spouses through a personal connection, a strong personal receive career guidance, job preparedness, job leads brand, networking and and land real jobs. Our mentoring are critical for “The value of a mentor who can goal is to make it more today’s job seeker. effective and easier help cultivate leadership skills “Mentoring is where you for those leaving the one-on-one in real time, reduce military and entering can empower yourself,” Citroën said. “Nobody was the anxiety in taking big steps the civilian workforce talking to veterans about [to find] an opportunity and focus leaders on achieving it, but the word is starting to accelerate their efforts their goals is huge.” to get out.” to succeed.” One reason the word is “We can learn in a —Jeff Hall, National Employment Director getting out is because of number of ways,” Hall Veterati (veterati.com). Built by veterans and a military said. “I value learning from other people’s experiences, spouse, Veterati is a first-of-its-kind digital mentorship as I find that to be less painful than learning from my platform specifically for transitioning service members, mistakes. It is one of the undervalued aspects of having veterans and military spouses. a professional mentor. We encourage each and every “This platform allows our target audience to veteran to find and work with a good mentor. If nothing network and connect with multiple business else, you can learn from their experience and avoid the professionals who volunteer their time to provide mistakes others have made.” ■ DAV | @DAVHQ | DAVHQ | COMPANY/DAVHQ | DAVETERANS | DISABLEDVETERANS 25