Why Hire Veterans?

We get asked this question a lot: why hire veterans?

Most people have a narrow view of what a military career involves and don’t realize that America’s veterans are some of the most highly skilled, talented, and driven people you can (and should) hire.

Maybe your company doesn’t have a formal military recruiting program and you’re not sure how to get started. Or perhaps you’re not sure how well the technology and computer software skills of military veteran’s match-up with the hiring needs of your technology company. Or maybe your senior management team does not have a clear understanding of the wide skillsets of America’s veterans.

Our goal at Veteran’s Employment is two-fold: to help you, our corporate clients find and hire the best of America’s veterans and to support our veterans in finding employment.

This is why we want you to know more about our military veterans. Every veteran has military career experience that includes strong leadership skills, advanced and specialized technical skills, superior management experience, a highly-tuned team focus, and the desire to develop a successful civilian career.

• Leadership: a typical five-year transitioning officer has managed over 100 people and a junior enlisted supervisor often has between 5 – 25 people working for them. There aren’t many new college graduates who have this kind of real leadership experience.
• Experience: military personnel receive training and education through-out their entire military career. This means that military candidates have multiple years of leadership, management and technical work experience combined with training, deployments, and teaching positions interspersed throughout their careers.
• Efficiency and Effectiveness: transitioning military veterans are excellent time managers and communicators. Being able to manage their own time and that of their teams and to communicate in, at times, stressful situations, is something that cannot be learned in the classroom or during a six-week internship. Military veterans work in a variety of team scenarios and are often tasked with managing projects with minimal resources.
• Team-Oriented: today’s military veterans know the value of teamwork and know that the success of the team is greater than individual success. With so many companies moving to agile work environments, this focus on team and common goals is a key differentiator for our military veterans.
• Training: the military candidates you meet and eventually hire come from a culture that stresses the importance of individual growth, training, and development through-out the duration of the military commitment.

Military veterans stand-out in the candidate recruitment process for their unique skillsets. Contact us to learn more about why should hire veterans and how we can help you find and hire the right people for the job.