Tag: Hire a Hero

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5 tips for hiring military veterans at your construction company

The economy is growing and construction contractors are scrambling for new employees. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, construction employment is expected to grow by 1.84 million jobs or 33 percent by 2020. At the same time there are thousands of technically proficient people exiting the military every year and their numbers are expected […]

May 1, 2014

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Hire a Hero begins staffing effort to create path to construction, trade jobs for veterans

Hire a Hero, a program designed to transition former U.S. soldiers to the civilian workforce, has not been enough to get veterans into jobs such as those in construction, says the Armed Forces Support Foundation. which runs the program. “The current transition assistance from military to civilian life is inadequate and our veterans are not […]

January 13, 2014

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Unemployment rate for veterans at 10.9%

After the successful mission by U.S. and intelligence teams to bring down Osama bin Laden, U.S. Sen. Kay R Hagan, D-N.C., expressed her concern over the nearly 11% unemployment rate for veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan. The National unemployment rate edged up to 9% in April and for the third consecutive month the economy […]

May 11, 2011