Spouse employment! Veteran employment! DoD Blogger Roundtable!

National Resource DirectoryThat is a major accomplishment for our military spouses that need a license to continue in their chosen career path – examples include teachers, nurses, accountants, lawyers, etc. Many spent years of training and education to become licensed and then the military move takes them to a new state that had different requirements. This legislation will make their jobs transportable! That next PCS could be easier, the bank account might stay level and job satisfaction would be retained. I remember my military spouse, a highly skilled teacher, taking a job at a national store as a photographer because she was not able to teach in that state.

@JoiningForces: First Lady: When it comes to employment for our #veterans & #milspouses, we’ve still got a long way to go.

Yes we do, but great progress is being made! More employers are coming on board and goals are being met or exceeded. Joining Forces has announced that 125,000 veterans and military spouses have been hired through efforts such as the DoD’s Military Spouse Employment Partnership.

@JoiningForces First Lady: And today, they are pledging to hire or train another 1/4 of a million of our nation’s heroes… including > 50,000 #milspouses

So where can you join this team as an employer or employee? First job fairs are out there for you! I wrote earlier (Military Spouse Employment – Exciting Times! DoD Blogger Roundtable) about how to find one and they are being successful in connecting the employers with military spouses. I asked Meg O’Grady, acting program manager of the DoD’s Military Spouse Employment Partnership about a recent job fair at Joint Base Lewis McChord and she said 20 military spouses had walked out the door with jobs! Go beyond the 20 into resumes shared, job interviews practiced and shared and all the other contacts made and that would be the top of a big pyramid. So where do you start?

@JoiningForces At live #veterans #jobs event, the First Lady highlights #Veterans Job Bank w/more than 1M jobs posted – check it out: http://www.nrd.gov

Hiring Our Heroes US Chamber of CommerceSo find out more! Get involved, find the next job fair in your area or where you have orders too! There is absolutely no reason to sit back and say you can not find a job without putting in a bit of effort! The team at Joining Forces, the Chamber of Commerce, MSEP and many others are working for you. MilitaryAvenue is your biggest fan and we wish you the best! Let us know how the job hunt is going and where you found the best opportunities!

If you would like to listen to an audio or read a transcript of this very informative DoD Blogger Roundtable on spouse employment be sure to go to DoDLive!

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Col K enjoyed 30 years of service in the US Air Force with numerous ties to all the services. He writes for MilitaryAvenue with the experience of 18 PCS moves/relocations for his family, numerous lengthy temporary duty assignments and service during conflicts from Vietnam to Afghanistan.

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