Hiring veterans has a wealth of benefits for your company or organization.
- Integrity
- Leadership
- Teamwork
- High level of trust
- Communication skills and practices
- Adept at skill transfer across tasks
- Have and leverage advanced tech training
- Comfortable in a variety of environments
- Resilient
- Professionalism under pressure
- Self-sacrifice
- Strong sense of honor and respect
- Team building skills
- Cross cultural experiences
- Experience working in diverse work settings
- Used to Diversity and inclusion
- Respect for rules and procedures
- Strong organizational commitment
- Health and safety standard conscious
- Triumph over adversity
- Respect for and understanding of other cultures
Our nation is currently transitioning the most educated and well-trained group of men and women in history into the civilian job market. These military service members bring a seemingly endless list of qualifications that successful companies today are looking for.
Think about this, the average military veteran having just minimal military service and training already has skills in:
- Communication
- Leadership
- Management
- Working in a variety of environments and conditions
- Working in a diverse workplace
- Working and problem solving under pressure
- Taking on roles of responsibility and accountability
- Familiarization and compliance with health and safety guidelines
Those who have served our nation bring a wealth of experience to any organization and benefit companies all over the world with their hard work, integrity, and loyalty.
Hiring veterans brings a wealth of benefits to a company or organization as cited above, however, there are also financial incentives for companies to look at hiring veterans. On November 21st, 2011 President Obama signed the Veterans Opportunity to Work to Hire Heroes (VOW) Act of 2011 into law. Two tax credits exist with this law. The Returning Heroes Tax Credit and the Wounded Warrior Tax Credit. These can provide up to $9,600 in tax credits. The VOW Act also provides additional assistance to unemployed veterans helping them secure employment through The Veterans Retraining Assistance Program. You can read more about these benefits to companies HERE.
Companies across the nation claim to support our nations veterans, many claim to even have veteran hiring programs, but upon closer inspection many companies actually hire few veterans and/or place them in much lower level career positions than they could be placed in. This can occur for a variety of reasons. Arguably the reason that is most prevalent is that employers have a difficult time learning the art of finding, attracting, hiring, and retaining the right veteran for the job. While the benefits to hiring veterans are seemingly endless the process of finding and hiring veterans can be a daunting task, especially to those who are unfamiliar with the military.
Forward March Inc can help your company to become successful at hiring transitioning military men and women and veterans alike. Forward March is in a unique position due to the fact that we have over 35 years of working with transitioning military and companies to place the right veteran in the right position at the right time. Our Military Talent Pipeline solutions are perfect for any size business or organization and completely scalable and customizable to your needs. We can train your organization, or we can manage your Military Talent Pipeline, or both.
Forward March Inc also realizes that part of veteran retention and bringing in more high quality veteran employees depends on a vibrant veteran culture within your company. We have worked with companies to help them to develop and foster highly successful veteran cultures within their organizations and we can do the same for yours.
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