r/SkillBridge

Greetings!

I am about 180 days from transitioning and would ideally be doing 120 days of Skillbridge. I had a company willing to take me on, but they failed to renew their Skillbridge license.

I was recently accepted and enrolled into a Top 5 Ivy League university with the intent to study neuroscience. My Skillbridge position was going to be a chill role, just answering emails and coordinating small things, allowing me to be a full-time student. I am set to enroll this fall semester, and I am still in the military until November, making this Skillbridge an important step to ensuring my future and education.

If anyone knows of any companies on Skillbridge that can provide something that meets the criteria I am searching for, let me know. I am not asking for a freebie on-paper deal where I literally do nothing, but I also cannot dedicate more than 20hrs/wk to the program, and will be in some complex classes, which I will prioritize.

Thanks!

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I start tomorrow and I am so incredibly excited. While this subreddit provided some useful information, I think more importantly it provided inspiration. Motivation. Success stories.

I'd say "wish me luck" but luck had nothing to do with this. It was hard work, discipline, and determination.

I'll do a full program review once my SkillBridge has concluded to share the full experience.

I am an E5 separating in February, I already have bachelors and masters degrees and a job lined up for post separation. Are there any professional development fellowships or low stress skill bridge opportunities you guys have seen/heard of? Thanks in advance!

Anybody know of skillbridge programs with cybersecurity companies? Most places I've found seem to be either Entry Level/Boot Camp style skillbridges which isn't what I'm looking for or I just blindly have to send out an application and get a automated email about how they'll review and maybe get back to me in month or so.

I'm an experienced Threat Hunter, got my bachelors, Sec+/GCFA/GCIA/GCIH/GCED so I'm trying to find something that really gets me into the civilian side of things. I separate in Feb so trying to do my full 120 days allowed and start in October.

Hello Reddit,

Anyone know what allegiant vets is like for overseas participants? I’ve read that there is now set live zoom hours that need to be met but then I read other sources that everything is self paced online.

I don’t want to join a program and have to be up from 1am-6am mon-Friday because of the set live hours time needed.

Thanks for the help!

Im attempting to attend a 15 week course at SLTC in Georgia there saying they will take 10 MONTHS of my post 911 GI bill and i will have to pay for housing out of pocket. i was under the impression that the GI bill pays monthly BAH. if they were to use 10 months of my GI bill shouldn't i get 10 months of BAH. I'm not going to receive BAH because i will be returning to my duty station in December. so for the months of my GI bill i should at least get some housing right? im still new to all of this its been a recent decsion to get out of the USMC and have no one that understands anything to help me out. im open to any and all information

I interviewed for MSSA on May 12 for the July 6 cohort. I know the interview window was roughly late April through May 14, so I’m curious if anyone has already received acceptance emails yet, especially for SCA.
If you already heard back:
what pathway?
interview date?
acceptance or denial?
how long did it take?

I figured I'd put this together because I see a lot of questions about SkillBridge (SB) and the transition process, so hopefully somebody can take something away from it.

I was accepted into 5 different SB opportunities and ended up accepting the one I thought would work best for me. I just started my SB this week, so I still have a long way to go with it myself.

20 years in the USCG and 4 years in the USAF — my time had finally come to hang it up. I wanted to prepare myself the best way I possibly could for life after the only adult life I had ever really known.

I did not prepare well the first time I got out 21 years ago from the USAF, which is honestly the main reason I joined the USCG afterward. Now that I know going back in isn’t an option this time, I wanted to make sure I handled this transition better than I did the first one.

Luckily, another Coastie told me about SB around 4 years ago.

I started preparing for this over a year before the retirement date I wanted, and I’m glad I did. Even starting that early, there’s still a lot to figure out between resumes, networking, SB applications, VA claims (seriously, take advantage of BDD), that final PCS, interviews, and trying to figure out what you even want to do next.

One thing I’d definitely recommend is taking advantage of the career counseling and transition assistance resources your branch offers. I think a lot of us wait too long to start asking questions or planning ahead.

Also — go to medical and get EVERYTHING documented for your VA claim. Depending on how busy your unit is, you do not want to be trying to cram appointments into the final month before your SB starts. Again, use BDD and find yourself a competent VSO.

Starting last summer, I applied for everything I could find: security, manufacturing, emergency management, operations, tech, training, federal positions, and more. Some companies were responsive and genuinely wanted to help transitioning service members succeed.

But there were also a ton — especially on the official SB site — that never responded at all. You’ll find dead links, abandoned email addresses because the contact person no longer works there, discontinued programs, or companies that only used SB once for a very specific hiring need.

When I first started looking, I didn’t realize that not every SB opportunity is actually listed on the official website. There are third-party organizations, recruiters, and partner companies that can connect transitioning members with opportunities through companies they already work with.

Cohorts also seem to be the wave of the future for SB right now, although guidance seems to change pretty regularly.

I learned pretty quickly that expanding your search beyond the official website can open a lot more doors and lead to opportunities that fit you better. That’s ultimately how I landed my SB.

I think there are so many highly skilled military members out there who are great at leading people, solving problems under pressure, training teams, and adapting quickly, but sometimes it feels like the civilian side doesn’t fully understand how valuable that experience really is.

A few takeaways from my experience so far:

• Get your chain of command involved early if you think you want to do SB
• Start applying early, even if you’re still figuring things out
• It never hurts to send an email showing interest
• Take advantage of every resource available to you
• Networking really does help
• Tailoring resumes actually helped me, even though some people will tell you it doesn’t
• If you use AI for resumes, PROOFREAD IT — it will absolutely over-embellish or randomly add/remove things sometimes
• It’s ok to be picky and change your mind about opportunities
• Don’t lose hope if you get rejection emails
• Don’t just pick an SB to escape your last 180 days — pick one that can actually help jumpstart your civilian career

What’s kind of interesting is that I’m still figuring things out myself while also starting to help other people through it at the same time. I definitely don’t have all the answers, but after everything I’ve learned over the last year, I really do want to help other transitioning members any way I can and hopefully make this whole process a little less stressful.

So I just wanted to share some of my experience in case somebody else out there is starting this process and feels completely lost.

And I saved this for last:

I feel fortunate to have landed with Five & Fly, where I’m now doing my own SkillBridge as a recruiter helping connect other service members with opportunities that fit their backgrounds and goals.

I really didn’t want this to come across as a recruiting post — I mostly just wanted to share my experience and some things that helped me along the way. But if anybody has questions or thinks I can help, feel free to reach out.

chris@fiveandfly.com

I got about a year and a half left and I'm looking to be an electrician when I get out. I did some under the table work in the past before I joined but I wanna get a job in San Diego.

What's the best route for reliable work? I have a mortgage I'm trying to pay and I don't wanna end up losing the house but I refuse to stay in the corps.

Mortgage is $3000 a month.

I’m thinking about going army to USCG so which means I would have to extend my DEROS (jan2027)to my ETS (aug2027). Which means illl go straight from Army to coast guard. Am I still able to do a skillbridge or is skillbridge for AD to civilian only ?

I get out in like 10 months currently stationed in Cali with experience as an Aviation Ordnanceman. I’m looking to see if anyone knows of opportunities in tx since that’s where I wanna live at. Ultimately would love to secure a job that I’d love. Message me if you can help. Thanks in advance!

I hit the button 1 Feb for retirement and I'm looking to retire in Florida. Does anyone know of any companies that are hiring around this time next year?! Or is it too early to "look"?! TIA 🤘🏾🤗

Hello everyone,

I have an interview booked for a program manager position at a FAANG company. Has anyone ever had an interview like this? If so, what tips do you have. I am really excited for this opportunity! Thank you kindly.

I understand that budget cuts had to be made and this is what we're left with, but holy crap do they make this harder than it needs to be.

Im in the process of try to submit my paperwork for a SkillBridge with CBP and im being told that the welcome letter that they send out MUST include the dates of when ill be at the SkillBridge. I reached out to the coordinator and explained everything and the response back is that they cant do that. They only send the tentative acceptance offer into the program and that they cant deviate from that.

I told the people at Ft Knox that I cam submit all the paperwork to them that was originally submitted to CBP for my acceptance, but they state it must be stated in the welcome letter. The military makes the CBP SkillBridge appear as the "official" SkillBridge of the military since its the one they advertise on the website for like a year now, but now im being held up because of specific wording.

Hello, currently doing a Skillbridge at a big box chain for an assistant manager position. I’m halfway through my 60 days, and….. it’s been rough. I don’t and can’t get any access to the manager systems, so 90 percent of my day is spent walking around doing customer service stuff. Which isn’t bad, but assuming I get hired on at the end of this I won’t really know the manager side of the job. I get referred to as “free labor” a bunch, which again, I have thick skin but it’s clear they don’t know how to train me for the job.

My hang up is the job is pretty much guaranteed, but I won’t be staying at this location (which i picked because it was close to my house). The pay is going to be pretty good, etc. but the disorganization here and lack of training is crazy.

P.s. my first experience with a civilian job in 20 plus years but, this place makes me realize how much stuff we get right in the military when it comes to coaching and developing.

Anyone have a experience doing skillbridge with texas instrument as a equipment technician? Just curious how was the experience is.