Veteran Tech Brigade Helps Veterans Find Meaningful Employment

[longknife]

From Blackfive blog @ BLACKFIVE: Veteran Tech Brigade - Helping Vets Find Jobs!

Frustrated with the high unemployment rate among veterans and inadequate career transitioning services offered them, Veteran Tech Brigade is working with numerous commercial companies and government contracting firms to provide meaningful jobs and free pre-employment counseling to our military veterans and their spouses.

Here are links to this great organization and I hope more business owners hook up to it:
http://www.facebook.com/veterantechbrigade
https://twitter.com/VetTechBrigade
Veteran Tech Brigade | LinkedIn

 

[waltky]

Good news for returning veterans...

Report: More veterans are finding work again
May 3, 2013 WASHINGTON — The unemployment rate for young veterans dropped last month to its lowest level since President Barack Obama was elected, another positive sign for advocates concerned over the transition from military to civilian life.

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Iraq and Afghanistan war era veterans posted a 7.5 percent unemployment rate in April, the same as the national average. That figure has stayed at least two percentage points above the national rate for most of the last four years, and hasn’t been that low since November 2008. The unemployment rate has been on a downward slope since the start of 2013. Almost 2.1 million veterans from the current wars era now hold civilian jobs.

Lawmakers have made retraining and recertification efforts a focus in recent years, both to help the large number of combat veterans looking for a second career and to prepare the country an expected million more troops leaving the military in the coming decade. The overall veterans unemployment rate fell to 6.2 percent in April, the lowest that figure has been in more than four years. About 860,000 veterans were still unable to find jobs last month, according to the bureau.

In a statement, White House Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers Krueger called the unemployment numbers “further evidence that the U.S. economy is continuing to recover from the worst downturn since the Great Depression.” But he also warned that any good economic news accumulated in recent months could be undone by mandatory budget cuts under sequestration now being implemented, and reiterated White House calls for Congress to find alternative deficit reduction plans.

Report: More veterans are finding work again - News - Stripes