How Our Science and Technology Works
Purepost’s Proprietary Technology Database's design supports our conceptual “Skills Strataplex and Cross-Industry Translation Framework” (Figure 5). This construct contains three key elements: leadership levels (strata), skills types (plex), and the operating structures for military and civilian organizations. It shows how our Skills Taxonomy (see Figure 6) functions as the central repository and router, correlating skills and translations across military-to-civilian operating structures, leadership levels, and specific jobs.
The leadership levels are conceptualized as strata, having several layers or levels within an organized military or civilian system. The three strata in our construct are identified from top to bottom as 1) the strategic leadership skills level, 2) the organizational skills level, and 3) the direct skills level. Skills within each level are conceptualized as a plex, denoting a number of segmented complex skill types within the strata.
Our construct's three skill requirements are 1) technical skills, 2) interpersonal skills, and 3) conceptual skills. Its premise is that leaders need to have all three skills at all levels, but the emphasis on those skills changes depending on where they are in the operating structure. The level of skill importance is signified by the size of the bar inside each leadership stratum (see Figure 5 for detailed skill categorization and definitions).
On each side of the construct, we find an organizational operating structure. On the left is a depiction of the military operating structure layered by upper, middle, and lower levels. Each military level is further segmented by sub-levels and described in military terms. On the right side of our construct is a depiction of a civilian operating structure, also layered by upper, middle, and lower levels. Like the military operating structure, each civilian level is segmented by sub-level and described in equivalent civilian terms. This construct enables Purepost to perform military-to-civilian cross-industry translations, informed by position level within the organization based on these three distinct sub-structures and their sub-levels.
When we created Purepost’s Skills Strataplex and Cross-Industry Translation Framework, we thought we could use it at a specific point in our journey for civilian-to-civilian cross-industry translations.
The Purepost Three Skills Approach
The Purepost Hybrid Civilian Skills Library contains specific and detailed skills that fit the technical, interpersonal, and conceptual types highlighted in the Skills Strataplex. We built our Hybrid Civilian Skills Library by merging the best civilian skills from the leading four US skills assessment and leadership development firms.
Skills Taxonomy Vector Analysis
Within those skill types, our Hybrid Skills Library is organized into categories as shown in the Purepost Leadership Skills Taxonomy (see Figure 7, Purepost Skills Taxonomy Vector Analysis: 95% Match to Military Skills). We conducted a Vector Analysis to compare our Leadership Skills Taxonomy against the military skills found in the US Army’s Core Leadership Competencies and Attributes Taxonomy. This vector analysis found that skills in the Purepost Taxonomy produced a 95% match with the US Army Taxonomy, which indicates that 95% of the skills trained and evaluated in the Army have high transferable value to the civilian sector. In addition to populating our database with leadership skills, we have populated it with essential Technical Position Skills, defined as the abilities and knowledge needed to perform trade-specific tasks. These practical skills often relate to mechanical, information technology, mathematical, or scientific tasks. Some examples include knowledge of programming languages, mechanical equipment, or tools.
Purepost Detail of Skills Strataplex as Applied in Translation Database
In addition to translating military position titles and descriptions, the Purepost database enables the translation of military duties and performance actions into concise, understandable civilian resume statements. We then identify roughly a dozen leadership and position technical skills embedded in each civilian resume statement (see Figure 8, Purepost Detail of Skills Strataplex as Applied in Translation Database). Finally, the Purepost database enables any active-duty service member or veteran to create a state-of-the-art profile and resume in under 30 minutes.
Purepost’s Five Military Services Translation Universe
Purepost's proprietary Hybrid Civilian Skills Library contains hundreds of Civilian Leadership Skills and Position Technical Skills. Our massive and instantaneous military-to-civilian skills-matching process uses these skills. We have also populated the Purepost Database with translations for all 533 Army, Navy, Marines, Air Force, and Coast Guard career paths, commonly called military occupational specialty codes. We are currently working on integrating the Space Force career paths into our database. We have matched each specialty code with a cannon of position titles, position descriptions, duty action bullets, and relevant skills. Our research team generated these descriptions from months of intensive research, sourcing from military publications and documentation. Thus far, we've populated the database with over 25,000 correlations of military job titles to equivalent civilian positions.In support of those 25,000 military-to-civilian job correlations, the Purepost research team developed over 300,000 civilian resume statements mapped to the relevant Leadership Skills and Position Technical Skills in our Skills Library, resulting in over 2.4M skill mappings. This mapping reveals private sector opportunities previously inaccessible to transitioning veterans.