Not sure if hiring managers really think like this or not ? If true we have a serious problem looking for work as Veterans.

Many of your states has a job service office for unemployment and looking for job listings. In Utah they call it Workforce Services, and they have case workers who are trained to find jobs for veterans. I recommend if you have a GI Bill then use it. Employers are looking for skills they can use. If you are in high tech in the military then you can probably get hired on at a company that does similar work. If you are a grunt or in a combat arms role and you are not interested in law enforcement, fire or security. I suggest going back to school, that's what I did.
The VA helped me get my degree through Voc Rehab, and my counselor has been wonderful in explaining my rights as a veteran.

Use these tools, because you earned them.

Unfortunately there are the ignorant that only see the world from their little bubbles they live in. My experience in retail was much different. I got the job because I had been all over the world, and it helped that the hiring manager had a son in Afghanistan with the USMC. I am pursuing a Doctorate in Business Administration with a concentration in Organizational leadership and business ethics. My goal is to one day be able to lecture to HR managers about the benefits of hiring veterans. Part of my research involves two retired generals who work in the private sector. I have gathered all my research from my MBA courses and when I start school in Jan 2015 I will already be working on my dissertation. My guess is that the hiring manager in this case has something against the military, and she made up the other crap to sell her position on the matter. I remember guys coming back from Nam and getting the same line of BS.

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

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

I would say it is probably true. I am in a Linkedin group and one veteran tried and tried and tried. So he decided to take his military career off his resume and his began getting responses.

Sad but true.

I'm sorry so many of you have had a difficult time with potential employers.  With that being said, I don't think this attitude is as wide spread as everyone is making it out to be.

That article is also over ten years old. 

Unfortunately I see this here a lot.  I worked for a retail company for a little while over a year then lost the job due to sales being down.  That was this last October.  Ever since that time I have not been able to find a job.  I get told a lot that I am either over qualified, or that I am not a people person due to my extensive time in the service, afraid that I may snap, and the list goes on.  I have a valid security clearance, speak, read and write a foreign language fluently I am willing to learn and work hard.  If it weren't for the Post 9/11 GI Bill I would not be able to make it.  My room mate is in the same boat.  He served in the Army as well.  We served in the same Company in Germany.  When he learned I got out and moved here he came here in hopes to find a better job.  Now both of us are living off of the GI Bill constantly looking for work.