Posted on Jun 2, 2015
How do you feel about identifying as a Veteran during the process of applying for a job?
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As employers work to find and hire Veterans across the country, one issue that is run into among the larger companies is keeping track of the number of Veterans that apply and that they hire in order to validate/reassess our recruiting processes. The only real way this can occur is through the identification of the candidate as they apply to open positions - which can only be done if the candidate identifies voluntarily, as it is illegal for a potential employer to force that information from someone.
I want to know how you feel about identifying yourself as a Veteran during the application process - and whether or not you feel it helps/hurts as you are searching for your next career.
I want to know how you feel about identifying yourself as a Veteran during the application process - and whether or not you feel it helps/hurts as you are searching for your next career.
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I am proud to be identified as a veteran and do not hesitate to mention my service.
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A1C Markus Frank
Respect. Even knowing that it might/will lead to not being hired... It's the right and only thing to do.
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A1C Markus Frank
I ran analysis for companies.... How many women, how many minorities... etc... Never was I asked to run an analysis on "how many veterans in workforce" . I never had a military hire disappoint me.
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Capt Seid Waddell
A1C Markus Frank, military experience has been treated as a plus in every company where I have worked since leaving the Air Force.
I think your experience with military hires is the common experience with the five places I've worked over the past 43 years.
I think your experience with military hires is the common experience with the five places I've worked over the past 43 years.
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Mine thus far has been treated as an inconvenience. At least at one of my jobs, the other is very supportive.
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I feel like it is a positive... and if the employer does not want me because I am a veteran, I do not want to work for them.
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CPT Pedro Meza
Taryn, I learned that lessons the hard way, as a teacher I got jobs but was not permitted to teach in the better schools.
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Sir, @CPT Pedro Meza, I am very sorry. I wanted to be a history teach at the high school level for a long time. But the more I talked to Veterans who were teacher, the more I found, ran into this issue.
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CPT Pedro Meza
Taryn,
Taryn, I started as a history/social studies teacher then switched to special education because of the need for special ed teachers but then discovered that better area schools do not like us because we are stereotyped as being strict and demanding.
Taryn, I started as a history/social studies teacher then switched to special education because of the need for special ed teachers but then discovered that better area schools do not like us because we are stereotyped as being strict and demanding.
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I always thought it helped, but who knows what ones intentions are? I would hope they would want to preferably hire vets, but that could also be naive of me. I am always looking at things from how I would do it and find out the hard way that there are plenty of terrible backstabbing people out there.
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Capt Seid Waddell
SPC Jeffrey Bly, I figure that if my service counts against me in a company, then I really don't want to work there anyway. Life is too short to spend it working for fools.
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