Employers actively seek to hire veterans for their leadership, skills, discipline, and work ethic. Training, certification, and education helps channel their military experience into valuable workforce skills. Workforce readiness programs that prepare veterans for transition to employment can have a dramatic impact on future performance, retention, and job satisfaction. Use our search and filter function to find resources to help ensure your veteran talent hits the ground running.

 

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Work After Service: Developing Workforce Readiness and Veteran Talent for the Future

Upon military separation, veterans often enter the civilian workforce to either extend their career in a similar civilian role or embark on an entirely new and unrelated career path. The Institute for Veterans and Military Families (IVMF), as part of its broader employment research series, and with the generous financial support and collaboration of USAA, is exploring the topic of workforce readiness as it relates to transitioning service members and veterans in the civilian labor force. This paper marks the first in a series of short Workforce Readiness Briefs that will cover several related topics such as: understanding how the concept of workforce readiness applies to transitioning service members and veterans; examining interactions between career preferences, job matching, performance, and retention; exploring the links between financial readiness, spouse employment, and workforce readiness; and employer perspectives on workforce readiness and key factors and practices that influence retention and job satisfaction among veteran employees.

The Business Case for Hiring a Veteran: Beyond the Clichés

This report details the results of a comprehensive review of academic literature from the fields of business, psychology, sociology, and organizational behavior positioned to illustrate the foundational elements around which employers can formulate a research-informed logic for recruiting and developing military veterans in the civilian workforce. The business case is based on 10 research-informed propositions on the value of a veteran in a competitive business environment.

Workforce Readiness Alignment: the Relationship Between Job Preferences, Retention, and Earnings

This paper focuses on testing propositions related to workforce readiness by examining the relationship between job preferences, military conferred skills, and a variety of outcome measures including retention, income, and perceptions about transition. Using self-reported data collected from veterans who transitioned from the military and are working in civilian jobs, our analysis demonstrates that the application of the skills gained in the military and securing employment in a desired career field are two critical factors in the transition process for both veterans and their employers.

Employing Veterans: Digital Toolkit

This is a guide for Human Relations professionals that provides resources related to hiring veterans, as well as to managing problems that can arise for both veterans and their employers.

Training, Leveraging, and Communicating about Military Spouses as Employees

This product, a training slide deck designed for hiring managers and human resource professionals, is the third in a series of products that illustrates the unique strengths and challenges that military spouses bring to the workforce while supporting their service member's military career. This training tool, designed to be used with the other two products in the series, offers a "hands-on" way for those interested in hiring military spouses to gain key insights and ways to train, leverage talent, and communicate when employing military spouses.

Hire Education: Strengthening Connections Between Employers and Student Veterans

This guide explores strategies used by higher education and employers to improve their connections on behalf of student veteran job seekers.

DOD SkillBridge

This program helps military members that are within 180 days of transitioning into civilian life find opportunities to work and train with employers in preparation.

Veteran Employment Startup Guide

Middle market companies interested in developing their veteran employment programs can use this guide which is based on experiences of the Veteran Jobs Mission, a 200-member coalition led by JPMorgan Chase. The guide includes resources, best practices, and recommendations to implement or improve veteran employment strategies.

Guide to Leading Policies, Practices and Resource: Supporting the Employment of Veterans and Military Families

The goal of this publication is to leverage state-of-the-art research and practice to increase employment opportunities for veterans. The guide details a series of practice and policy issues identified by research and through our work with the employer community, as impacting veteran employment initiatives. Also included throughout this guide are discussions, descriptions, and case studies illustrating leading corporate practices impacting veteran employment.

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