Post Tagged with: "veterans"

‘I Was Raped,’ Military Women Tell Senate

‘I Was Raped,’ Military Women Tell Senate

The U.S. Senate is finally listening to the Service Women’s Action Network’s outcry. But will there ever be change?

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ADP: What Technologies Can Increase Veteran Recruitment?

ADP: What Technologies Can Increase Veteran Recruitment?

How is ADP’s new veterans resource group and military strategy helping the company improve its recruitment?

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Pentagon to Issue Same-Gender Couple Benefits

Pentagon to Issue Same-Gender Couple Benefits

Is this new policy indicative of how the Supreme Court will rule on DOMA this summer?

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Retired Admiral Mullen Joins GM Board

Retired Admiral Mullen Joins GM Board

Former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff brings 43 years of leadership experience

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Finally! Ban on Women in Combat Lifted

Finally! Ban on Women in Combat Lifted

Defense Secretary Leon Panetta is overturning the policy that kept women from prominent combat roles.

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CVS Caremark Sponsored Hiring Our Heroes Hiring Fair at Rhode Island National Guard Armory

CVS Caremark Sponsored Hiring Our Heroes Hiring Fair at Rhode Island National Guard Armory CEO Larry J. Merlo Signed Statement of Support for Guard and Reserve Members WOONSOCKET, R.I., Jan. 22, 2013 /PRNewswire/ – CVS Caremark (NYSE: CVS) joined forces with the Rhode Island National Guard and Reserve and sponsored a [...]

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Walmart CEO: We’ll Hire 100,000 Veterans, Increase American-Made Purchases by $50B

Walmart CEO: We’ll Hire 100,000 Veterans, Increase American-Made Purchases by $50B

Walmart’s getting people back to work. CEO promises to give all returning troops jobs, buy more U.S. products and help its employees gain full-time employment.

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NOD Wounded Warrior Careers: A Model that Works

Yesterday NOD released the results of its Wounded Warrior Careers 4-Year Report in Washington, DC, and called on government agencies to adopt its proven model to assist the most severely injured veterans in the transition to civilian careers. NOD Board Member and retired Lieutenant General Franklin Hagenbeck appeared on Fox News [...]

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Who Was Most Hurt By ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’? Black Women

Who Was Most Hurt By ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’? Black Women

Less than 1 percent of service women are Black, but 9 percent of all female Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell discharges were Black women.

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Romney Brings Marriage Inequality to Breakfast

Mitt Romney told a gay Vietnam war veteran that he wants to repeal the same-sex-marriage law in New Hampshire.

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Capital One and Count Me In for Women’s Economic Independence to Launch Program to Support Women Veteran-Owned Small Businesses Across the U.S.

Capital One’s $750,000 Grant and Three-Year Commitment Will Create Small Business Training Program for Women Veteran Business Leaders

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How Are Veteran Resource Groups Helping Companies Leverage the Drawdown of Military Troops?

How Are Veteran Resource Groups Helping Companies Leverage the Drawdown of Military Troops?

Resource groups for veterans? Here’s why companies see the recruitment of veterans as a competitive advantage and how these groups are helping.

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WellPoint Joins 100,000 Jobs Mission Pledging to Hire Veterans

WellPoint announced that it has joined the 100,000 Jobs Mission, a coalition of major corporations that have jointly committed to hiring 100,000 transitioning service members and military veterans by 2020.

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Veterans in the Workplace: Help Them Make the Transition

What best practices can help your company be more mindful—and more attractive—to veteran talent?

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How to Help Veterans Transition to the Civilian Workforce

What are the priority issues your company needs to address?

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