Product manager and veteran Oleksandr Kucheryavyi said that during an inspection of the security service at one of the companies, he was actually accused of «hiding experience» due to the lack of mention of service in the CCC in his resume.
Product manager and veteran Oleksandr Kucheryavyi said that during an inspection of the security service at one of the companies, he was actually accused of «hiding experience» due to the lack of mention of service in the CCC in his resume.
This, he said, came as a surprise — and highlighted a deeper misunderstanding of the military experience on the part of civilian recruiters.
As Oleksandr tells us on LinkedIn, during the screening process, the candidate was asked a series of clarifying questions about his experience. At first, he says, he thought it was about possible inaccuracies in business metrics or KPIs.
However, it later turned out that the questions concerned something else: the «hidden crime» was the absence of mention of service in the CCC in the resume.
Kucheryavyi clarifies that after being wounded, he did indeed serve for six months in the territorial recruiting center — and he does not consider this something that needs to be publicly detailed. «Yes, for those who did not know, I served in the TCC for six months after being wounded, and I am proud of this service, as well as every day of service in other units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. In fact, the work is very difficult and thankless, but that is a topic for a separate post,» he wrote.
The veteran also draws attention to the risks:
«I generally consider it unsafe to indicate the name of the unit and details of the service,» he notes.
A separate problem is the attempt to translate military experience into the language of corporate roles. According to Kucheryavy, the service has nothing to do with the linear career logic that recruiters are used to:
«Mother Vasiliev, any person who has served for real, and not just walked around in a uniform on weekends, will confirm that a position in the army is just a set of letters on paper, which has no relation to the colossal volume of diverse chaos that you rake up every day. It is simply impossible for a civilian recruiter to comprehend the fact that today you can dig a hole to your corns, tomorrow sit on an evacuee, and the day after tomorrow morning load a BC, so that in the evening you can go to the farm where the gun flew in, cut up a cow, and make kebabs for 3 weeks. Duty on the SP, kneading on the VP for a month, doing docks on the health resort for the entire unit, going to the PPD for stoves, stealing cats from the adjacent ones, raking up a dugout digging up dead comrades. «In the army, you are not just an employee, you are a multifunctional Swiss army knife,» he explains.
Because of this, standard CV formats simply cannot adequately convey such experience.
«Therefore, when the Security Service looks for 'inconsistencies', they simply do not understand that a veteran is a person whose resume is not written in ink, but in the ability to survive and perform tasks in conditions where the lack of logic is the only constant. We are too multifunctional for your limited categories, 'To define is to limit' is what I like to repeat,» the veteran noted.
