Dear Corporate America, This letter is intended to ask for your help and to open your mind, perhaps a little bit. I have recently completed my tour of duty … Read more
Military Recruiting, Job Hunting, Destruction Jobs, and More in Today’s Roundup
You’ll see how many people are looking for jobs; how the Swedish military is advertising; and who beat out Booz Allen in a Best-place-to-work list, … Read more
Young Veterans Are The Ones Most Likely to Be Jobless
With every good intention, American employers are honoring the nation’s military veterans today with promises of jobs and redoubled recruiting … Read more
Interview Questions for Veterans
When interviewing a former service member, your goal is to understand the various roles, responsibilities, skills, and experience the candidate has … Read more
Veterans Less Confident Than Employers About Job Prospects
As America prepares to honor its military veterans, a new survey says recent and soon-to-be vets are concerned about finding a job and many feel … Read more
OFCCP Wants More Data For Compliance; Seeks to Strengthen Veteran Recruitment
Two proposals from the Federal Office of Contract Compliance Programs, now open for public comment, seek to require federal contractors and their subs to … Read more
2011 ERE Recruiting Excellence Award Finalists
This was the seventh year of the ERE Recruiting Excellence Awards, but it was the military talent category, added for the first time, that was mentioned by … Read more
What Corporate Recruiting Can Learn From the U.S. Military
Several Mondays ago, I watched a National Geographic documentary called Restrepo. Restrepo is a feature-length documentary from National Geographic that … Read more
Becoming a Talent Hero
For those who attended my session at the ERE Fall Expo, you heard first-hand about CACI’s Predictive Staffing Model and were the recipient of a “secret … Read more
Employers Think Vets Are Great. They Just Don’t Hire Them
Amidst the rah-rah news yesterday about the drop in unemployment claims, little notice was paid to another one of the data points in the weekly report … Read more