Value to Corporate America

Hire America's Heroes stresses enhanced corporate understanding of the value which veterans bring to the corporate workplace.

"Ten Reasons to Hire a Vet" http://www.dol.gov/vets/

Value to Military Service Members and their Families

Hire America's Heroes does not work directly with individual, job-seeking service members. Rather, the organization works with corporations and their recruiting teams as well as with transition coordinators at military bases to ensure service members' access to corporate opportunities.

Specific benefits provided by Hire America's Heroes' sponsors to individual service members include access to corporate recruiters through networking events, coaching from veterans who have made the transition, tours of sponsors' corporate campuses, and other activities that facilitate veteran access to corporate careers.

Veterans at Work

According to the Society for Human Resource Management Veterans who served in Iraq and Afghanistan have been hired by 30% of 638 organizations surveyed in October 2008 by the Society for Human Resource Management. 95% of HR professionals who hired veterans of the two wars cited the vets' strong sense of responsibility as a benefit; 94% mentioned their ability to work as part of a team; and 92% cited their adeptness under pressure. 81% of the HR professionals surveyed said they would appreciate "assistance identifying and reaching out to veterans," and 77% support "programs to help veterans transition from military to civilian workplaces."