DoD SkillBridge · HOH Corporate Fellowship
DoD SkillBridge · Employer Outreach

Employer Outreach Fellow

Own employer outreach at an Austin workforce-tech company for twelve weeks — on active-duty pay — in a role built to convert into an offer.

Austin, TX · hybrid 12 weeks Active-duty pay continues Mid/senior professional
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Heads up: you can create your profile on your phone, but the skills assessment needs a laptop or desktop. Start now, finish step 2 when you're at a computer.

About PowerTechs

PowerTechs is an Austin workforce-tech company. We build a game-like practical assessment that measures the durable skills transitioning service members already have — analytical reasoning, clear communication, team coordination, resourceful problem-solving, adaptive learning, and composure under pressure — and translates them into the language civilian employers screen for. We are an approved DoD SkillBridge provider.

The fellowship

This is a mid/senior professional placement, not a research rotation. You'll spend roughly four days a week embedded with our team and one day on HOH cohort huddles, if you're placed through the Corporate Fellowship Program. You own a real function from day one, and if it goes well, it converts to an offer.

Why this role exists

Our founder does not come from a military background. The single most valuable thing a transitioning O-4 or senior NCO brings us is credibility and fluency we cannot fake: you already speak the language of military talent programs, SkillBridge POCs, and veteran-hiring leads. You will be the person on the other end of those conversations.

What you'll do

  • Own B2B outreach to employers and existing SkillBridge partner organizations — identify the right buyer (Military/Veteran Talent Program Manager, Veteran Recruiting Lead, Workforce Development Director), open the conversation, and move it to a call.
  • Run multichannel outreach, LinkedIn first and then email, using our stack — lemlist, Clay, Attio — and keep the pipeline clean and honest.
  • Work the warm ecosystem nodes we've already mapped: ARMA, Hiring Our Heroes, the Texas Veterans Commission, Workforce Solutions. Turn one relationship into many.
  • Lead or co-lead employer discovery calls, and bring back what employers actually say about how they screen — or fail to screen — durable skills. That feedback goes straight into product and offer.
  • Represent PowerTechs at Austin-area and Texas-base events, including Fort Cavazos and Joint Base San Antonio, where it makes sense.

Check yourself against the requirements

Hard gate
DoD SkillBridge eligibility

This fellowship is for transitioning service members within 180 days of separation who can get their command's approval. Everything else on this page is something we can work with; this one we can't.

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What success looks like at 12 weeks

A working, documented outreach engine. A set of live employer conversations you opened and advanced. And a clear read, from the field, on which parts of our offer land and which don't.

Sound like your next twelve weeks?

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How this works

01 Create your PowerTechs profile Name, service branch, separation date, and how you're coming through — HOH Corporate Fellowship or SkillBridge directly. No résumé, no cover letter. 2 minutes · phone or computer
02 Run Operation Compass A game-based skills assessment set in a scenario you'll recognize. You make calls under time pressure; the system reads how you reason, communicate, and coordinate. ~15 minutes · laptop or desktop required
03 We read your profile against this role Your skill profile plus the experience you're bringing gets weighed against what this fellowship actually demands. We reply either way. Every applicant hears back
04 Talk to the team A direct conversation with the founder, with your skill profile already on the table — so it starts at what you can do rather than at translating your service record. Founder-level conversation

The assessment

Operation Compass

PowerTechs isn't a résumé screen — and we don't make an exception for our own hires. Before we talk, you run a short mission set on a forward operating base. An air-defense site loses its data link to AWACS. You work the problem with your squad, under a clock, making the same kind of calls you've made for real.

Every decision feeds a skill profile. It's the same assessment we ask employers to trust, so it would be strange to hire off anything else.

Operation Compass mission start: an overhead view of a forward operating base with aircraft, helicopters, hangars and fuel storage.
The mission starts on the ground you know. No abstract puzzles and no personality quiz — a working base, a squad, and a data link to AWACS that went dark at 0600.
A decision point in Operation Compass with four response options, a countdown timer, and a live skill profile panel showing scores for analytical reasoning, communication, team coordination, problem-solving, adaptive learning and composure.
Your skill profile builds as you play. Eight decisions, roughly fifteen minutes. What you choose — and how you handle a fix that created a new problem — is what we read before the first call.

What the assessment maps to in this role

The six skills Operation Compass measures aren't generic soft skills. Here's what each one predicts in this role.

Measured in the missionUsed in this fellowship
Clear CommunicationMaking a founder-level case to a Veteran Talent Program Manager who has thirty seconds and no reason to care yet.
Analytical ReasoningWorking out who the real buyer is inside an employer, and what they're actually measured on.
Composure Under PressureCold outreach is mostly silence and no. The work is showing up the next day anyway.
Resourceful Problem-SolvingTurning one warm node — ARMA, Hiring Our Heroes, the Texas Veterans Commission — into five conversations.
Adaptive LearningA stack you may not have touched before: lemlist, Clay, Attio. You'll be running it in week one.
Team CoordinationCarrying what employers tell you back into product and offer, so the company moves with you rather than behind you.
SkillBridge participation needs your command's approval, and that paperwork takes time. Start as early as your window allows — applying now costs you nothing and holds your place while approval moves.

Questions people ask first

Is this paid?

Not by PowerTechs — that's how SkillBridge works. You remain on active-duty pay and benefits for the full twelve weeks while you work here.

Does it actually turn into a job?

It's offered with genuine intent to hire the right person at the end of the fellowship, and the role is designed to convert. It isn't a guarantee, and we'd rather say so plainly than imply otherwise. What you get either way is twelve weeks of real ownership and a founder who has seen your work up close.

Do I need a résumé?

No. Your profile plus the assessment is the application. Add a résumé or LinkedIn later if you want to — nothing is blocked without one.

How long does the assessment take, and can I do it on my phone?

About fifteen minutes, and it needs a laptop or desktop — the mission environment doesn't run properly on a phone. Create your profile from your phone now and come back to it at a computer.

Do I have to be in Austin?

The fellowship is hybrid out of Austin, and the outreach work itself is remote-friendly. Tell us your situation when you create your profile.

What if I'm not going through Hiring Our Heroes?

The one day a week of cohort huddles applies if you're placed through the HOH Corporate Fellowship Program. Coming through SkillBridge directly is fine.

My SkillBridge window hasn't opened yet. Should I still apply?

Yes. Create your profile and run the assessment now — your skill profile doesn't expire, and we'll line the start up with your separation date.

Twelve weeks, a real function, and a team that already knows what you can do.

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You'll be asked for your separation date and whether you're coming through HOH or SkillBridge directly.

This is a DoD SkillBridge fellowship with PowerTechs. It is unpaid by the employer: you remain on active-duty pay and benefits for the twelve weeks. PowerTechs is an approved DoD SkillBridge provider.

SkillBridge participation requires approval from your chain of command. PowerTechs cannot authorize your SkillBridge window on your behalf.