WASHINGTON – With more than 1 million active-duty personnel scheduled to join the ranks of America’s 22 million Veterans during the next five years, the President has proposed a $140.3 billion budget for the Department of Veterans Affairs for the fiscal year beginning Oct. 1. “As our newest Veterans return home, we must give them the care, [...]
Sixty percent of employers recently surveyed by the Society for Human Resources Management said they run credit checks on at least some job applicants, compared with 42 percent in a somewhat similar survey in 2006.
By Sandra Kelly The Department of Veterans Affairs has recently announced that changes will be coming the Post 9/11 GI Bill this October. The changes, which were initiated by Congress, will go into effect on October 1st and will allow veterans to use the Post 9/11 GI Bill for programs such as non-college degrees, on [...]
By STEPHEN LOSEY The Office of Personnel Management will take a major step to establishing a new internship and student hiring program Aug. 5 when it releases proposed regulations for its new Pathways Programs. Pathways, which is intended to replace the now-defunct Federal Career Intern Program (FCIP) and current intern programs, will be a three-tiered [...]
By The Virginian-Pilot Norfolk, Va. As missions wind down in Iraq and Afghanistan, troops returning home from battle are facing a struggle of a different sort: finding a job. The unemployment rate for young male veterans is more than triple the overall national unemployment rate, which hit 9.2 percent last month. In the past [...]
Lee Solomon served in the United States Marine Corps from 1967 to 1976, with nineteen months spent in combat in Vietnam. Solomon is a Khe Sanh veteran.
Hiring military reservists and veterans is a positive investment for America, the deputy director of U.S. Army Reserve Command told federal hiring officials yesterday
Defense Department officials want to hear by July 6 from the civilian employers of reservists and National Guardsmen in a survey intended to measure the impact of service members on the civilian workplace
The Santa Clara Valley Water District is the primary water resources agency for Santa Clara County, California. They are reaching out to hire U.S. Veterans and have re-upped their membership at HireVeterans.com,, the premier job board for U.S. Military Veterans to show that they are again on board with hiring Veterans. The Santa Clara Valley [...]
Berico Technologies, LLC is a Veteran Owned Small Business (VOSB) providing analytical and information technology development services to the US intelligence community, Department of Defense and Homeland Security.
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