Abstract
The occupational transition which impacts, sometimes brutally, the identity of the individual, stimulates strategies of protection by avoidance and denial. The case of the reconversion of the military invites us to study the interest of extending the technical devices of support during the professional transitions, to the generalization of the implementation of an identity mediation component. This provision is intended to facilitate the transformation of a personal identity polarized by powerful socio-professional links. Theoretical reflection mobilizes the concepts of identity and crisis, the notion of military specificity and the adjustment strategies at the heart of which the notions of myth and role take part in the process of personalization by meaning and action. In this context, pressing identity regulation on the part of the socio-professional environment can amputate some of the individual identity work necessary for adjustments in professional transition to secure a new career path. Through a constructivist approach we adopt a resolutely HRM posture by conducting a qualitative empirical study that mobilized 62 interviews of soldiers about to leave the army, former military personnel and experts in conversion. In this intervention research, structured by abduction, we show the interest of a synergistic work from different scientific disciplines to consolidate the management of a professional transition from an environment with strong business culture to a successful individual identity transition.