Veterans Hiring Toolkit

With Office of Federal Contract Compliance Program issuance of ANPRM (Announcement of a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking) the Agency has brought forth the enforcement of Affirmative Action efforts for individuals with a disability and covered Veterans as a top priority. This enforcement requires Federal contractors and subcontractors to look into their employment practices in order to improve upon their recruitment, hiring, training and other opportunities for covered veterans and persons with disabilities.

On October 28, 2010, the Department of Labor announced the availability of new online toolkit employers can use, to simplify the process of recruiting and hiring veterans and wounded warriors in their organizations.
The Veterans Hiring Toolkit, which is part of the America’s Heroes at Work initiative, is a six step guide that entails of:

1). Designing a strategy for your veterans hiring program
2). Creating a welcome and educated workplace for veterans
3). Actively recruiting veterans, wounded warriors and military spouses
4). Hiring qualified veterans and learning how to accommodate wounded warriors
5). Promoting an inclusive workplace to retain veteran employees
6). Access to helpful tools and resources

For the in depth exposure of the Veterans Tool Kit, we have provided you the link below:

http://www.americasheroesatwork.gov/forEmployers/HiringToolkit

Since each employers policies, procedures and organizational practices are unique, this new toolkit will provide a room for customization and provide the best resources that will yield successful results.