For Veterans Looking for Work

The Department of Veterans Services for the City of Newton has put together a list of websites to help returning veterans find work. These sites will be useful to vets regardless of your geographical location.

Veteran Job Search Sites

Career Command Post	www.careercommandpost.com
Career One Stop	www.careeronestop.org/militarytransition /workforceprofessionals.aspx
Cintas	www.cintas.com/hr/military.asp
Clearance Jobs	www.clearancejobs.com
Corporate Gray	www.corporategrayonline.com
Department of Defense Job Search	www.dod.jobsearch.org
GI Jobs	www.gijobs.net
Helmets to Hardhats	www.helmetstohardhats.org
Hire Veterans	www.hireveterans.com
Intelligence Careers Inc	www.intelligencecareers.com
Military Hire	www.militaryhire.com
Military Exits	www.militaryexits.com
Military Spot	www.militaryspot.com
Military Stars	www.militarystars.com
NASA	wwww.nasapeople.nasa.gov/employeebenefits/ veterans/default.htm
Non-appropriated Funds	www.88thservices.com/humanresources.htm
Orion International	www.orioninternational.com
Purple Heart Foundation	www.purpleheartfoundation.org
Real Life Lines	www.dol.gov/elaws/realifelines.htm
Recruit Air Force	www.recruitairforce.com/recruitairforce
Recruit Military	www.recruitmilitary.com
Sprint Military Recruiting	www.sprint.com/hr/military
TA Online	www.taonline.com
Veteran Employment	www.veteranemployment.com
Vet Jobs	www.vetjobs.com
Vet Success	www.vetsuccess.gov
Work Force 3 One	www.workforce3one.org
7-Eleven	www.7eleven.com/careers/militaryjobs.asp

Veteran/Military Related Jobs

Army Civilian Personnel	www.cpol.army.mil
Base Commissary Employment	www.commissaries.com/inside_deca/ HR/index.cfm
COMTek	www.goarmyrotc.com
Defense Link	www.defenselink.mil
United Service Organization	www.uso.org
Veteran Affairs Employment Opportunities	www.va.gov/jobs
Veterans Affairs Health Care	www.vacareers.va.gov

Veteran Entrepreneur

Small Business Development	www.sba.gov/aboutsba/sbaprograms/ ovbd/index.html
SCORE	www.score.org/veteran.html
Veterans Corp	www.veteranscorp.org
Vet BiZ	www.vetbiz.gov

 

In addition to the Veteran Entrepreneur sites listed above, the New York Post recently published an article on this topic.  Click on “Bootstapping It:  Growing Number of  ‘Ventrepreneur’ programs help soldiers create start-ups” to link to the article.

For links to other topics of use to veterans provided by the Veterans Services Department click here.

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Webinar to Help Disabled Veterans Looking for Work

I discovered the following link when checking for articles published during the current week.  I thought it deserved special attention. The webinar is being held live on March 27th from 2:00 to 3:00. This is one of a series of webinars, the first of which took place on February 28th. According to the article Veterans who were unable to attend the first webinar can listen to the entire event on the DVNF website. You can both register and check on archived webinars at www.dvnf.org/webinar. A link to the archived webinars is in the lower left corner of the DVNF’s webinar page

To link to the article click on Disabled Veterans National Foundation to Host Webinar to Aid Veteran Job Search on March 27th from 2 to 3.

vea/9 March 2012
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Help for Veterans Looking for Work

When Soldiers, Sailors, and Marines Come Home and Become Veterans...

Looking at the New York Post’s career articles this morning reminded me that I had always planned on doing a posting here that would be specifically aimed towards veterans.  According to the lead article, the unemployment rate for post-9/11 war vets is as high as 15 percent and goes up to 22 percent if you are looking only at male veterans.  There are a number of mistakes that vets often make when first looking for work as a civilian that can be easily avoided. If you are a veteran having trouble finding work,  I would strongly suggest taking a look at the Post’s main article, Operation Employment.  Two related articles in the same issue illustrate how military experience can prove critical to doing specific jobs that would not be obvious at first glance.    Reading Standing Orders and Officer in the Office  might spark some ideas for your own job search.  The titles above serve as links to the articles.

The state of Massachusetts also offers help to veterans looking for work. On Wednesday, May 25, Boston’s One-Stop Career Center will Co-Host a Veterans Job Fair. According to the press release “The Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development (EOLWD) today announced that JobNet, Boston’s One-Stop Career Center will partner with Northeastern University, The New England Center for Homeless Veterans, America’s Job Exchange and the U.S. Department of Veterans’ Affairs Vocational Rehabilitation and Employment’s VetSuccess to co-host the seventh annual Veterans Job Fair.” Click here for more details. For more information about the veterans services offered at the state’s One-Stop Career Centers and the state of Massachusetts visit www.mass.gov/dwd/veterans.

Have you thought of books as an additional tool for your job search? Two that the Newton Free Library lends are Military-to-Civilian Career Transition Guide: The Essential Job Search Handbook for Service Members by Janet I. Farley (2010)  and Best Careers for Veterans: Transitioning to Civilian Life published by Learning Express (2009).  Click here for more information on these and other books available through the Minuteman Library System.

Good luck.

vea/ 23 May 2011
Newton Free Library
Newton, Mass.

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