Teamwork makes the dream work for employers and the military-connected community. These initiatives and coalitions focus on connecting veterans to employment and can help your company better attract, hire, and retain veterans, transitioning active duty service members, and military spouses. Use our search and filter function to learn more about key partnerships and initiatives that serve the veteran workforce.

 

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Veteran Jobs Mission--Home

This is a coalition of companies dedicated to assisting veterans find and maintain employment.

Hiring Our Heroes

This website helps connect those in the military community with businesses in the US, including assisting with employment.

Pittsburgh Veteran Employer Coalition

The Pittsburgh Veteran Employer Coalition works with a variety of employers local to Pittsburgh to help veterans find work where they can be successful. The Coalition searches for and distributes the best ways to recruit and support veterans in the workforce, including working with local higher education institutions.

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.

Veterans Employment Toolkit: Supporting Your Employees in the Reserve & National Guard

This is a veterans employment toolkit that provides information about the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act (USERRA), as well as advice for veterans' employers.

Employer Resources

The Veteran Jobs Mission worked with the Institute for Veterans and Military Families (IVMF) to find the best practices for improving programs focused on hiring veterans, based off of companies associated with the Veteran Jobs Mission.

Wellbeing in the Workplace Guidebook

The links on this virtual guide will help businesses of all sizes take measures to prioritize mental health and emotional wellbeing in the workplace.

Best For Vets: Employers

This website provides a list of employers which are best for veterans.

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