How do you prepare your subordinates to rejoin the civilian workforce?

Normally I go over what the soldier plans to do when they get out. Doesn't matter if the spend 4 or 20 years they will eventually get out. Most of my guys are IT and will be looking for IT jobs when they get out. When I write monthly counseling's, one of the bullets will always be a professional growth bullet. What do you want to do to prepare yourself for your future?. We go over that bullet every month. I let the soldier decide what they want to see accomplished then we talk about ways they can accomplish it. Under the leaders responsibilities I explain how I will make their goal attainable and that I will hold them to their goal. Once its on paper and signed I will hold that soldier to it. So every month its a realistic goal.

An example... If my soldier wants to earn a Security+ certification it would go somewhat similar to this. The soldier tells me he/she wants to earn that cert. I explain what the cert is and how it relates to the civilian world and if that is what they are trying to do. If they say yes, I will give them resources for studying that I know of. We establish a timeframe for when they will take the test. For Sec+ I would say 3 months is plenty of time. So we would divide the three months into studying. The first would be books and videos. The second would practice tests. The third would be restudying the soldiers weak areas and doing practice tests that last week before the test.

I do this with every soldier, and each soldier has their own goals so im usually busy trying to stay up to date on what they want to learn. This also helps myself retain information and learn new information with my soldiers.

Back in the day, encouraged college correspondence courses from the base or shipboard education office. It was free, it (mostly) transferred, and they can't take it free m you.

What is today's standard or paradigm on what individual leaders, commanders or the military, in general, should or are somehow obligated to do to 'prepare their subordinates to EAS and become civilians"? At one time as I recall the MC at least in my case did absolutely nothing nor felt obligated to do so as I was quitting their employment and seeking a job and career elsewhere, I was not looked upon with much esteem or approval. On the day of my release I picked up my papers from a PFC at the company office and departed the base in my 1961 VW beetle. It seems nowadays the military is being expected more and more to somehow carry their departing SMs through the door and set them up mentally and emotionally and professionally in civilian life. Not many civilian companies I know of go so far as to do that when an employee quits or moves on or goes into the service.