Reconversion as a means of integrating into the civilian work environment for individuals released from military service

Abstract

This article on Reconversion within the Polish Armed Forces attempts to answer the question: How to use the knowledge and experience of former uniformed persons in the civilian market? Thus, Reconversion encompasses all activities concerning soldiers and ex-soldiers allowing adaptation to civilian life and also on the civilian labour market. I believe that in a situation of decreasing
participation in the labour market, cooperation between military institutions and civilian institutions, employers both within the public and private sector should be undertaken in the field of creating and developing competencies that are determined by the contemporary labour market or anticipated directions of its development. There is a need to acquire new competencies in order not to lose this huge potential of people. Therefore, it seems that such changes should be made in the training system, which will give them broader competencies, to be realised professionally also after leaving the service. It is also advisable to work out professional permeability by recommending a line that would guarantee a smooth transition from the labour market understood as military service to the labour market created outside the services, and largely determined by the economic as well as social needs of our country.