hiring veterans

4 Strategies for a Successfully Hiring Veterans – and Retaining Them!

As we head into 2025, the current unemployment rate has just risen to 4.2% in November. The competition is tough among employers for loyal, highly skilled workers, and companies are increasingly looking for new avenues to find the staff they need. Hiring veterans is one way to expand the talent pool, and these strategies will […]

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13 High Paying Job Opportunities for Veteran Employment

You’ve served with the military for a while, and now it’s time to separate yourself from it. I bet you’ve thought of finding a job that will compensate your efforts well. Fortunately, there are tons of great jobs for veterans out there. All you need to do is start searching for them in newspapers and

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Why Tech Companies are Hiring Military Vets to Solve Chronic Skilled Worker Shortage

A few years ago, IBM committed to hiring 2000 U.S veterans over the next four years for its “new collar” tech jobs that do not require a traditional four-year degree, according to a press release on the IBM website. Other tech giants such as Dell, Hewlett-Packard Enterprise, and EMC also made pledges to hire thousands

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Top 7 Reasons for Employers to Recruit Veterans

Does hiring military veterans make business sense? Some business owners are still hesitant about hiring veterans, for many reasons. For example, veterans are often regarded as behaviorally-unpredictable, ticking time bombs who have nothing to offer businesses except combat stories. Well, the truth is these are just rumors and stereotypes based on few examples, often unsupported by

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How to Make a Good Cover Letter for a Veteran Resume

The key to securing favorable positions in today’s world often comes through the ability to present yourself in an appealing way. Part of your ‘self-advertisement’ happens in the office before the interviewer, the other part way before then – in your resume. And this applies to all categories of people, basically anyone that would need to

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Why Hiring Veterans Can Benefit Your Small Business

Would you hire Morgan Freeman to work for your small business? Of course, he’s a famous actor who can attract a lot of attention and, therefore, sales, so your answer is a most definite yes. But what about when he left the Air Force and was looking for a job without a significant professional background?

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Creating a Job Description to Attract Top Veteran Candidates

It’s good news that veteran unemployment has dropped over the past few years, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics—for veterans, that is—but it’s not quite such a great development for companies. The incentives that motivated businesses to target and employ former military personnel are now harder to qualify for, simply because there are fewer

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Dress for Success: What’s Appropriate (and What’s Not) for Military Veteran Job Interviews

Your fave threads might just not be the right thing to wear to that interview! How you present yourself during an interview can impact your success as much as the information on your resume, and showing up dressed inappropriately is an easy way to get off on the wrong foot. In today’s more casual work

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