New Book Combat Leader to Corporate Leader Addresses Veteran Employment Effectiveness

See larger image Combat Leader to Corporate Leader: 20 Lessons to Advance Your Civilian Career (Hardcover) By (author) Chad Storlie Combat Leader to Corporate Leader: 20 Lessons to Advance Your Civilian Career describes how veterans can beat the challenges of unemployment, under employment, and capture the full value of their military experience in their careers. [...]

Top 10 Tips on How to Make a Resume

 Base your resume on simplicity. A resume is the first and probably the last opportunity to ensure an interview. It is therefore extremely important that your resume work in your favour and not vice versa. Use it to draw attention on your work force, on your achievements, and on your technical knowledge. Your achievements should [...]

Tax Credit Hiring Incentives for Employers Who Reach Out to Employ Veterans

Up to $ 4800 in Tax Credits Available to Employers who Hire Veterans The following Veteran Categories will qualify your company for a $4,800 Federal income tax credit Veteran – member of a family that received assistance under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) (food stamps) for at least a 3-month period during the 15-month [...]

Secretary Shinseki Announces Staffing Boost with Recovery Act Funds

Processing of Claims Targeted for Extra Personnel WASHINGTON – The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is putting Americans to work with funds from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, while bolstering staffing at VA benefits offices where Veterans’ claims are processed. “Our hiring has put about approximately 2,300 people in jobs at these important local [...]

Veterans Struggle to Find Work

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Chicago Area U.S. Veteran Inventor Wins Award To Innovate The State of Wisconsin!

The ideas to profits inventors conference October 1st, 2nd, 2009 was held in the Wisconsin Chula Vista Motel conference room where 23 inventors from seven states exhibited their display of innovations to visitors, new product scouts, media, and judges for the inventors contest. Virgil Mathis, a U.S. Veteran from Chicago, exhibited the invention of the [...]

HIRE Law Gives Huge Tax Breaks to Companies who Hire Veterans

President Barack Obama on Thursday signed into law the $17.5 billion Hiring Incentive to Restore Employment Act (the “HIRE Act”), comprising a payroll tax holiday for businesses that hire unemployed workers, an income tax credit of $1,000 for businesses that retain these employees and an extension of highways project financing. The bill was passed in the Senate last month and the House earlier in March, with voting largely along partisan lines.

Obama signs jobs bill, says more must be done

Bill provides tax cuts for hiring unemployed workers, funds transit projects WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama has signed into law a package of tax breaks and spending designed to give the nation a jobs boost. In a sunny Rose Garden ceremony, Obama said the legislation will help the private sector start hiring again. It is [...]

Book Review Veterans of War, Veterans of Peace

by Bob Hanafin, VeteransToday.com bout two years ago my wife and I heard Pro-Peace activist Maxine Hong Kingston speak at Wright State University in Fairborn, Ohio right outside Wright-Patterson AFB. Being a University right outside a major military base with close ties to the defense industry dollars for college level R&D, Wright State is not [...]

Book Review: Distant War, Recollections of Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia by Marc Phillip Yablonka

See larger image Distant War (Paperback) By (author) Marc Phillip Yablonka by Karen St. John, Staff Writer Like many of us, the Vietnam War became teenager Marc Phillip Yablonka’s war. The son of a holocaust survivor and U.S. WW II veteran, Yablonka watched as the war dragged on and Saigon fell in 1975. For decades [...]

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