Veterans with Disabilities are Strong Job Candidates!

This month, we honor America’s veterans. Many veterans with disabilities face challenges reintegrating into society and finding a good job or restarting a career interrupted by their service. The Ticket to Work program can make this journey smoother and help you find a meaningful career after your military service.

As a veteran, you offer employers:

• Skills and experience
• Discipline and teamwork
• Courage and resilience

As a veteran in the workforce, you gain:

• Financial independence
• A chance to use your current skills and develop new ones
• Connections with people on the job and in your community

Veteran Employment Resources

Many other resources are available to help veterans successfully enter the workplace:

• Vocational Rehabilitation & Employment (VR&E) Services – VR&E is a program of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. Through VR&E, you may receive vocational rehabilitation and employment services to help with job training, employment accommodations, resume development and job-seeking skills coaching. Other services may help veterans start their own businesses or provide independent living services for those with severe disabilities that make traditional employment difficult.
• Hiring Our Heroes – This is a nationwide initiative to help veterans and military spouses find meaningful employment. Hiring Our Heroes works through a network of 1,600 state and local Chambers of Commerce and other partners from the public, private and non-profit sectors. The initiative has hosted more than 320 hiring fairs in 49 states, Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia resulting in more than 10,400 hires.
• Veteran Recruiting – This website provides veterans with disabilities and the military with access to industry-leading employers through virtual career fairs and live video interviewing services. Register for the Veterans Day event on November 10, 2016.
• ApprenticeshipUSA – Have you served in the military and are now looking to start an exciting new career? The Federal Government provides a number of resources to help service members and veterans find high-skill, well-paying Registered Apprenticeship jobs. Learn more at ApprenticeshipUSA!