Posted on Mar 25, 2014
Not sure if hiring managers really think like this or not ? If true we have a serious problem looking for work as Veterans.
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I truly feel a article like the one below is what we as veterans and soon to be veterans should be talking about. Because if this is how hiring managers really think about us. Then we have a real serious problem once we leave the military, serve our country and pay are dues. Would love to hear and discusss if this has happened to any of my fellow retirees. If so how do we deal with it ? and most importantly how can we fix this ?
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I'm sorry that you encountered that. I own a SDVOSB mechanical piping company and my standing rule is no DD 214 NO JOB. Veterans know how to accomplish the task at hand. Veterans will go over, under, around, and through it to get it done and they don't ever leave one of their own behind! Don't let these civilian jack-legs rain on your parade. Our country stands strong because of people like us! As VBO's and SDVBO's businesses start to grow, we know full well on who we can depend on. Someday that hag might be asking you for a job.
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Sgt Christopher Collins
Ah Crown Point, IN....I am from Portage, IN. And I agree with you on everything you said.
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<p>I, as a Veteran, have come across this multiple times. I was twice deployed and made sure to put that on every job application I filled out and it was certainly on my resume. The problem I ran into the most is that nearly every company required submitting an app on line. I went to a handful of interviews and the whole time we talked about my experience in the military. I even put myself through the Police academy in Southwest Florida. There I shined as a PT and academic stud. I was told by everyone I met that I would get a job no problem. I went to 26 different agencies and smoked every PT test and did very well in the interviews. </p><p><br></p><p>Every agency decided to "go a different way" usually with somebody's nephew or family friend over me. I was a cop in the military, but that apparently offers no value to a company that has the option of going with someone with no experience but has a "friend" on the agency.</p><p><br></p><p>I was then told by a captain on the hiring board that they typically will not go with a veteran unless they know somebody. How messed up are these agencies that are responsible for the public service of their city to not hire the most qualified person. </p><p><br></p><p>That left such a bad taste in my mouth that I decided to stop looking for a Police job and decided to get a job at my friends company. I might as well join them since I couldn't beat them.</p><p><br></p><p>Is it possible that the military might help there members by supplying a full psychological exam before separating/retiring allowing them to have a full bill of mental health? </p><p><br></p><p>The bottom line is that every company is worried about the same thing when thinking of hiring a military vet. "Are they going to have a break down at work" </p>
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SGT Jay Ehrenfeld
it not only the police department it's the system call the buddy system or friends system
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SGT Jay Ehrenfeld
as today CVS refuse to hire me so I went send email to the CEO of the corp. and give a earful about discrimination what his company did won't hear from him because his assistant didn't let him let it
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SSG (ret) William Martin
Government jobs have the same hiring practices; you gotta know somebody and have zero qualifications and be borderline mentally impaired.
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A few years ago, I went to an Equal Employment Opportunity conference in Washington D.C. I took a class on "How to deal with former military bosses". The instructors were an Administrative judge and a lawyer. The amount of baloney that they spouted made me sick. If you didn't know better, we all are rampaging morons to them. I kept my mouth shut. What they didn't know was that over 50% of the attendees to their class were former military or active duty.
One of the ladies that was there with us was a civilian employee from the Pentagon. I didn't have to say a thing. The lady from the Pentagon went ballistic on them, and from there, we went to the organizers of the conference from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and presented a complaint.
That should tell you the mentality of many in the civilian community. It is sad, but true.
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SGT Jay Ehrenfeld
Retreating, and scramble for jobs, additional protection for a veterans are a concern displaced in (RIF), said personnel director, who spoke on condition of anonymity. “It’s unfair, more should
Be on performance and not on status”, director said. (That is a Lie) (it based on status and not on performance). Veteran’s Groups said manager’s Discrimination against Veterans. Just because they are Veterans
Be on performance and not on status”, director said. (That is a Lie) (it based on status and not on performance). Veteran’s Groups said manager’s Discrimination against Veterans. Just because they are Veterans
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SGT Jay Ehrenfeld
then the hiring manager should be fired upon the complaint to the CEO and or the HR directly it happen to me in the government also refuse to hired combat veteran but if I was peacetime vet then I will get hired and the Congressmen and senator to refuse to hired a veteran's on their staff. CVS also did it to me so I send the CEO a email along with my resume and any paper on the work laws with the history of the VA. I don't expect no response from them like the others. any way I don't shop at CVS
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