Veterans Day: How Companies Can Support Military Families
Veterans Day reminds us of our responsibility to help U.S. military veterans transition successfully into the civilian workforce.
Siemens has hired more than 2,500 veterans since 2011 – exceeding our initial commitment by more than 600 percent. Now we’re working on bringing at least 300 veterans into the corporation annually over the next three years.
This core value also is incredibly valuable to our core business, as our veterans come to us with strong technical training and natural leadership skills.
We also knew that it would help our recruiting efforts to make sure that veterans can find us.
That’s why we recently became an early adopter of the Google Cloud Talent Solution – enabled by our partner Jibe – on our jobs website. This enables job-seeking veterans to easily map their skills to our open positions.
I shared this on our blog and on social media, and I received a lot of thoughtful comments.
One of the key ones I read was: Let’s not forget about military families.
What I wanted to do then was to take a moment and talk with someone who has that experience as a military spouse: none other than our executive assistant, Kellee-Elizabeth Mann.
Kellee and I work closely together every day, and I really appreciated the opportunity to hear from Kellee how Siemens supports military families.
You can see our conversation in the video below.
System Operator at HEMAS HOLDINGS PLC
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The Hauseman Group
6 年The Veteran's Administration is broken.? It cannot be fixed.? It needs to be more like NASA and hire independent contractors.? There all hundreds of wealthy Americans who could pick up the total bill for our vets.? I am not saying that they should or have to do this, but our federal government has failed.? The management and financial pyramid is too steep and the government players are more concerned with their jobs, promotions. and retirement.? People like Bernie Marcus coupled with Shephard Center is a glowing example of what one family can do to help veterans suffering from PTS.? Again, imagine if we had 100 Marcus Foundations along with individual private citizens who knew that if they gave any money to such a group, 90% of that money would go to the care of our veterans and their families.
Information Technology Principal/Owner at Creative Technology and Management Services
6 年The Veteran's Administration needs to have a central data base and publicize it openings so it can be used by employers and employees. How this person at Siemens found the people to apply would be interesting to know.
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6 年That is self actualisation inspiration!