Many companies have come to understand the benefits of veteran workers. However, hiring these workers remains a challenge to corporations, as many struggle to help veterans transition their field experience to corporate responsibilities.
According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the 2011 unemployment rate of young male veterans (ages 1824) who served in the second Gulf War was high at 29.1 percent, compared with young male non-veterans at 17.6 percent. The overall 2011 unemployment rate of all workers was 8.9 percent.
The key to successfully transitioning veterans from military life to the civilian workforce: mentoring through both corporate programs and resource groups, said a Fair360, formerly DiversityInc panel of corporate and military experts in Veterans in the Workplace: How to Help Them Succeed.
