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
Aussie Military Launching New Recruiting Campaign
The Australian defense department has started a new campaign with a “Superman” motif to recruit reservists, the first big effort like this in … 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
Veteran Hiring That’s Working
Amidst high unemployment rates among military veterans, Kelly Snell, who works for a government hiring office in Washington state, says he’s finding … Read more
One Interview, One Veteran
You’ve read, I’m sure, about the troubles many veterans arriving home from Iraq and Afghanistan are having in getting jobs. Navsea, among … 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
Recruitment Marketing To Attract Military Veterans
This week’s webinar with Lisa Rosser covered proven techniques for attracting military veterans. For more podcasts, webinars, and articles on … 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
Diverse, Talented, Tech-Savvy: Welcome to the new U.S. Military
Want to hire someone who’s led a team, managed a huge project, saved lives, mastered technology, learned to handle pressure, and dealt with … Read more
Microsoft to Unveil Military Hiring Push
Marvin Smith tells me that Microsoft will soon launch a new site based around Microsoft hiring people from the service — to be found at … Read more
1,000 Recruiters of Light
“This is America … a brilliant diversity spread like stars, like a thousand points of light in a broad and peaceful sky.” — President George H.W. … Read more
Aussie Military Looks to Manpower RPO To Fill Ranks
There’s an interesting discussion going on over at the Video 2.0 for Recruitment blog about the U.S. Army’s $33 million investment in a … Read more
A Video, A Video Game, And Vault
Today brings news of the U.S. Army’s $38 million recruiting video games, a recruiting marketing video that is surprisingly fresh and entertaining and … Read more
Two Military Transition Programs Honored By SHRM
The New Jersey SHRM council and eight other state HR groups have been honored for their innovative programs addressing local workforce challenges. Read more