Jamie Desautels - Seizing Opportunities Through Career Transition

Veteran Influencer Podcast

Jamie Desautels was a supply officer in the Navy who transitioned into a logistics role with a Fortune 100 company via their military officer hiring program. He is now the Sales Director for Glen-Gery Corporation, a manufacturing leader in masonry, brick, and stone construction materials.

In this episode, we talk about how his first job showed him that your military branch or MOS does not and should not predetermine what career you pursue when you get out. Jamie shares how flexible different service backgrounds really are, and the drastically different communities veterans come from in corporate hiring programs where they may share a job title.

This is an encouraging conversation because Jamie has clearly benefited enormously from the way companies view veteran leadership talent. He is also holding up his end of the bargain and the promise of veterans in corporate America, leading revenue-producing teams and pushing himself and the people around him to grow. That’s only possible through the commitment his family has made along the way and throughout multiple major career transitions over the last 10 years. We touch on the impact that has had on their lives to get to the point where the hard work is finally paying off.