FREE – Service Leavers: Soldiers Curriculum
Civilian Workplace Translation for Military Professionals
Leaving the military is not about capability. It is about translation.
Service leavers often arrive in civilian life with exceptional discipline, leadership, decision making, and operational experience, yet struggle to communicate that value in a way civilian employers understand. The result is frustration, missed opportunities, and a loss of confidence during transition.
The Service Leavers Transition Programme at The Risk Academy is designed to close that gap.
This curriculum brings together a structured programme of courses that translate military experience into civilian workplace language, behaviours, and expectations. It supports service leavers at every stage of transition, from preparing CVs and interviews, to navigating workplace culture, communication, and long term personal resilience.
This is not generic career advice. It is a practical, joined up transition framework built for those leaving the armed forces.
Service Leavers: Soldiers Curriculum
The programme addresses four key areas that employers value but often do not explain: career presentation, communication, workplace behaviour, and personal resilience.
Civilian Workplace Translation:
This pathway focuses on helping service leavers understand and adapt to civilian professional environments.
Courses Include:
- CV and resume writing for civilian roles
- Understanding and defining your career brand
- Building and presenting your professional identity on LinkedIn
- Communicating effectively in the workplace
- Email etiquette and professional written communication
- Online meeting etiquette and virtual professionalism
- Giving and receiving feedback in civilian organisations
Soft Skills for Civilian Employment
This pathway develops the soft skills required to operate confidently and effectively in civilian teams.
Courses Include:
- Dealing with conflict in professional environments
- Handling difficult conversations
- Emotional intelligence explained for the workplace
- Developing empathy without losing authority
- Psychological safety and team dynamics
- Keeping your cool in debates and disagreements
Health, Safety and Risk Awareness. Courses include:
Many service leavers move into roles where safety, risk awareness, and compliance remain important. This pathway helps bridge military risk thinking into civilian standards and legal frameworks.
Courses Include:
- Fire safety
- Workplace situational awareness
- Lone worker safety in the UK
Personal Resilience and Transition Support
Transition is not just professional. It is personal.
This pathway focuses on mental resilience, wellbeing, and sustainable performance during and after transition.
Courses Include:
- Coping with uncertainty during life change
- Navigating your mental health outside the military
- Preventing burnout in civilian careers
- Maintaining a healthy work life balance
Who this programme is for
- Serving personnel preparing to leave the military
- Recent service leavers entering civilian employment
- Veterans transitioning into new roles across civilian sectors
- Service leavers who want clarity on civilian workplace expectations and culture
Join us now!
Become part of a growing global training academy for security, risk, and travel safety. The Risk Academy membership gives you ongoing access to professional development, core risk training, and specialist courses designed to support safer decision making and real world readiness. Join today and build capability that evolves as your role, environment, or risk profile changes.
