US Military Education Enlistment Standards

US Military Education Enlistment StandardsUS Military Education Enlistment StandardsEach branch of the U.S. military has slightly different education requirements for enlisted personnel. The minimum requirement is a GED (general equivalency diploma), and a certain number of college credits. But if you dont have a high school diploma, the requirements to enlist are more stringent. While its still possible to enlist with a GED, your chances are elend as strong as people with traditional high school diplomas, and youre encouraged to bolster your education with some college credits. fruchtwein branches will require at least 15 credits, which is a full semester at most community colleges. Armed Forces VocationalAptitudeBattery (ASVAB) All recruits must also take the Armed Forces Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB) test before enlisting. This helps assess not only whether an applicant has the skills to join the service, but for what role he or she might be best suited. The ASVAB test i s used to calculate the Armed Forces Qualification Test (AFQT) scores, using the test takers standard scores from the arithmetic reasoning, mathematics knowledge, paragraph comprehension, and word knowledge subtests. For enlistment purposes, the military breaks education into three overall categories tierisches lebewesen 1, Tier 2, and Tier 3. The vast majority (more than 90 percent) of all enlistments fall into the Tier 1 category. Tier I Applicants in Tier I have a high school diploma, or at least 15 college credits. This means a high school diploma, not a GED. Depending on state law, completion of high school by home study may or may not be considered equivalent to a high school diploma. This is the most viable route to enter the armed services as an enlisted member. Tier II Tier II includes GEDs, home study (in some states), Certificate of Attendance, Alternative/Continuation High School, Correspondence School Diplomas, and Occupational Program Certificate (Vo/Tech) hold ers. The services limit the number of Tier II candidates allowed to enlist each year. In the Air Force, the number of Tier II candidates is fewer than one percent each year. In such cases, and the applicant must have a suitable score on the AFQT. Usually, requirements for the AFQT are more stringent for GED holders, as opposed to those with high school diplomas. The Army has typically allowed up to 10 percent each year to be Tier II candidates, and theMarines will only allow about 5 percent, and the Navy about 10 percent. And like the Air Force, Tier II recruits in other branches have a higher minimum score requirement on the AFQT. The Coast Guard only accepts Tier 2 candidates if they have prior military service, and also requires them to score higher on the AFQT. Tier III This category is all but non-existent in the 21st-century armed services. It includes anyone who is notattending high school and is neither a high school graduate nor an alternative credential holder. The ser vices almost never accept a Tier 3 candidate for enlistment. If you fall into this category, your best bet is to get at least 15 college credits, so that you will be qualified as Tier I. Speak to your recruiter about the latest requirements, and see what assistance may be available to you in order to make yourself a more suitable candidate for enlistment.

Tap into the Exponential Power of the Crowd

Tap into the Exponential Power of the CrowdTap into the Exponential Power of the CrowdTap into the Exponential Power of the Crowd H. Diamandis and Steven Kotler, authors of BOLD How to Go Big, Create Wealth, and Impact the World (Simon Schuster, 2015)Until very recently, grand business challenges were off-limits to most mortals. The issue was scale and the fact that scale has always been a pay-to-play proposition.Historically, going big meant huge capital outlays and multi-decade bets. It meant arms and legs in dozens, sometimes hundreds, of countries. It also meant an astounding array of talent, the infrastructure to hire that talent, retain that talent, and as the technology evolved retrain that talent.But with the array of exponential crowd tools available to todays entrepreneur, the entire playing field has shifted.Today, incredibly, the ability to play at scale is never more than a few mouse clicks away.Tap the Power of the CrowdHere in the twenty-first century, business is a bout exponential possibilities. Unlike the previous century, the skills required to unlock these possibilities are bedrngnis the hard skills of yore, but rather the soft skills of understanding how to tap into these crowd-powered resources and use them effectively.Mastering tools like crowdfunding, crowdsourcing, incentive competitions, and the potency of a properly built community is becoming essential.Our motivation in writing BOLD Go Big, Create Wealth and Impact the World, was to create a resource on the use of emerging technologies, thinking at scale, and mining the awesome power of crowd-powered tools. These exponential advantages empower entrepreneurs like never before.These tools are exponential in power for three simple reasons1)The Crowd is Growing. Over the next decade, the size of the crowd (those folks online) is expected to more than double from roughly 2 tausend milliarden to 5 billion people (perhaps 7 billion if some of the orbital or stratospheric communication so lutions are deployed). This means 3 billion new minds are about to join the global conversation (this is the group referred to in our previous book, Abundance, as the rising billion).2)Technologies are Growing. The communication technologies underpinning the crowd are growing exponentially, morphing once thin data connections into ubiquitous broadband. The multinational professional services firm PricewaterhouseCoopers projects that the penetration of mobile (broadband) Internet services will reach 54 percent of the worlds population by the end of 2017. As a result, the crowd is becoming hyper-connected and hyper-responsive.3)Accessibility is Expanding. Perhaps most important, all of the exponential technologies are starting to become easily accessible to the masses, further empowering this hyper-connected, hyper-responsive crowd. What this means is that the people you can now tap for support are themselves far more capable than ever before.For existing businesses to tap these resou rces, it is important to keep these six things in mind1. The only constant is change.2. The rate of change is increasing.3. If you dont disrupt yourself, someone else will.4. Competition and disruption are no longer coming from some multinational company overseas. Theyre now originating from the guy or gal in a junges unternehmen garage harnessing exponential technologies.5. Given Bill Joys famous comment, No matter who you are, most of the smartest people work for someone else, how do you tap into these individuals?6. If youre dependent upon innovationonly from within your company, you are dead. You must harness the crowd to remain competitive.Building your CommunitySo how many members do you actually need to build an online community? Less than you probably think. Heres how to get startedBe the First Mover. It seems obvious, but being the first one into any space gives you considerable leverage. If people want to have a conversation and your community is the only place to have it, youre already winning. If you cant be first mover in a space, then the problem youre here to tackle better be significantly different and arguably more visionary than the competitions.Handpick Early Members. Research shows your early adopters tend to become your most ardent supporters. Get the ball rolling by personally handpicking your first ten to fifteen members. Be sure to engage these folks in the community-building process. Ask for their advice. Integrate their input. Dont waste your time going after big names. As a general rule, these folks are busy with their own communities.Establish a Newcomers Ritual. You want to give members a way to feel like they belong but they have to earn it. Create a ritual and tie it to a specific membership milestone. After a new member has their fifth blog post or one of their comments draws ten likes on Facebook, reward that level of participation with a token.Listen. No matter what your core vision is, you cant get anywhere without your memb ers. So pay attention to what they have to say and be prepared to change direction when necessary.Todays exponential entrepreneurs have at their disposal more than enough power, as Steve Jobs famously said, to put a ding in the universe. Billion-dollar companies are being built faster than ever, and trillion-dollar industries are on their way.More than ever, it isnt the hard skills that will set these entrepreneurs apart, but their ability to tap into the exponential power of the crowd.Parts of this article were adapted from BOLD How to Go Big, Create Wealth, and Impact the World by Peter H. Diamandis and Steven Kotler. Copyright 2015 by PHD Ventures. Reprinted by permission of Simon Schuster, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Author BiosPeter H. Diamandis is a New York Times-bestselling author and the founder of more than 15 high-tech companies. He is the CEO of the XPRIZE, executive chairman of the Singularity University, a Silicon Valley-based institution backed by Google, 3-D Systems and NASA.Steven Kotler is a New York Times-bestselling author, award-winning journalist and the cofounder and director of research for the Flow Genome Project. His books include The Rise of Superman and Abundance.

4 major mistakes Ive made (that Id do all over again)

4 major mistakes Ive made (that Id do all over again)4 major mistakes Ive made (that Id do all over again)How scared are you of mistakes? Of the small ones. Of the huge ones. Of the personal. Of the professional. Are the mistakes you fear of making, actually making you? Well, maybe. Because if avoiding a mistake means youre avoiding the pursuit of yur potential, or the pursuit of creating, or the pursuit of being out there and vulnerablethen ya. They might be making you.Ten years ago, I definitely considered myself a perfectionist. I feared mistakes like they had 8 legs. Today, not so much. Am I obsessed with doing a great job? Sure. Seeking major value and integrity? Totally. But Ive messed up enough to know that in the pursuit of anything big, of anything meaningful, the mistakes we make will be major along the way.Follow Ladders on FlipboardFollow Ladders magazines on Flipboard covering Happiness, Productivity, Job Satisfaction, Neuroscience, and moreUnfortunately, dealing with th e aftermath of making a mistake doesnt get easier. It doesnt suddenly start feeling any better just because youre a little more cool with making them now. But youdobegin to see them differently. You begin to see them as stepping stones to something developing in your life. Theyre signals of where to go next. They might have been avoidable, but now you understand what to avoid and how. Mistakes are really the only way there.I like looking back. Even at the ugly parts. Even at the parts of my life that still make my chest tight and my tummy clinch a little bit out of shame, out of embarrassment, out of sadness, out of disappointment. Because in each of those dark pockets of my life is the little hole punched where brightness seeped in. Not because I was trying, but because thats how brightness worksit finds its way in. Often times through the vessel you didnt expect, like painful mistakes, regretful missteps, or misunderstood choices.Like that timeI didnt prep for a dream job intervi ew in the way I should have. I was young, but Im still embarrassed when I think back of how simple the question was. How ill-prepared I was to answer. And how it all blew up from there. But just when I thought that door was closed, another one in the adjacent building opened.Or the timeI shared something online that had an komponente of something important to me, but because I didnt do full research on the subject it was about, I didnt know the person went against most of what I believed. It was not good. But I forgave me. And was reminded context is everything.And that timeI went against my gut. I took the job even though I knew the person hiring me was about to make my life an actual hell. Hell it was. But I clawed my way out and learned more lessons in a year than I knew could be learned in a lifetime.And finally that timeI should have walked away. Thats what wise women do. When someone is costing us our power. When we know were on the losing end of our own generosity. When our h eart is literally splintering minute by minute and yet we stay. But thats OK, because the feeling of knowing your power is often found from the feelings of ignoring it.It can be hard to walk away, until you realize that in doing so, youre running to yourself.Thereve been more mistakes in my life than I could fit in a 10-book series. Therell be more. Ill sidestep, turn around, fuck up, and want a do-over. But at the end of the day, even in the failures, the brightness will find its way in. As long as we keep showing up. As long as we keep loving on ourselves. As long as we dont let the mistake tell the story of our past, and rather allow the lesson learned to become our dominating narrative.This article originally appeared on Maxie McCoy.You might also enjoyNew neuroscience reveals 4 rituals that will make you happyStrangers know your social class in the first seven words you say, study finds10 lessons from Benjamin Franklins daily schedule that will double your productivityThe worst mistakes you can make in an interview, according to 12 CEOs10 habits of mentally strong people