Comments on: War Veterans Face Job Search Woes

By: artillerysurveyor

artillerysurveyor — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 01:27:17 +0000

Wow, who would of thought, hard to get a job. Todays vet beats the civilian hands down on work ethic and work skills. Civilians dont hire vets because they’re afraid they’d run the business right, and end up in charge and fire half the idiots that work there! Just ask the vets already out for a while about working for civilians, no trust, back stabbing is a norm, etc etc. DOD is no better. They only want temp hires, then can your ass just before you become permanet status. Then this idea of starting a business, LMAO. Only 1 in 10 succeed. Starting a business is a little more complicated then what people think. Been there done that. Best shot a vet has today is get into college and get a degree, a degree you can use, not the worthless degrees outthere. It’ll be tough especially if you have a family, otherwise you’ll be locked into low wage to no wage jobs forever.

By: who dey

who dey — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 16:15:41 +0000

I agree finding a job when returning back from duty is a difficult one. This is sad to see because many of the youth that is sent to Iraq and return come back with PTSD problems but the vets are way more qualified with life skills and management.
It is not what you know but who you know and I was able to signup with the website http://www.vetfriends.com and find a job through their Veteran owned online business directory. Who better to hire a vet than a fellow vet! Also was government grants you can obtain as a vet to start your own business and not worry about getting a job.

By: LT Nixon

LT Nixon — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 06:59:32 +0000

I was talking with a reservist O-6 about this very issue. He told me that a lot of employers seem to have the belief that management skills learned in the military aren’t really valid since “people have to do what you tell them in the military”. I’ve been quite impressed with the management abilities of NCOs, and I wish there was a way to dispel this stereotype in corporate america. Unfortunately, that will be difficult as we represent a small portion of the population.