The Value Of a Veteran

Watch this recorded announcement of the speaker lineup and agenda for the 2023 Veteran Recruiting Conference, which is Feb 28 - Mar 2, 2023 in San Antonio, Texas.

The Veteran Recruiting Conference is the premier professional development event for talent acquisition, diversity and veteran recruiting program managers seeking leading practices in veteran recruitment and retention.

2023 is our 11th annual conference and promises to be our most exciting yet! Given the conference’s proximity to Joint Base San Antonio ("Military City USA"), we’ve added some exciting pre- and post-conference activities that will enhance employer engagement with the local population of military/veteran job seekers, including a career fair on March 2nd. Attend this livestream to learn more details about these pre/post events.

Visit https://veteranrecruitingconference.com and opt-in to receive updates about the conference.



https://www.linkedin.com/video/event/urn:li:ugcPost:6968321706054533120/

Kicking off the 2022 Virginia Veterans and Military Affairs Conference in Richmond, Virginia this morning.

If any connections are here, I’d love to meet you in person during the breaks today. Look for the short redhead 👩🏻‍🦰 in the blue polka dot dress.

If you missed it, the replay of my interview with Anthony Paolino on leveraging workforce development programs to reskill / upskill diverse talent, including military veterans, is available (see link below). Workforce development programs are a great option to build robust talent pipelines by "growing your own talent".

https://www.linkedin.com/video/event/urn:li:ugcPost:6934507388431458304/

For corporate Manager/VP level TA and Diversity practitioners
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In the urgency to fill seats, are companies losing ground
on previous diversity gains?

Prior to 2020, many companies were already challenged to find diverse candidates.

In the last two years the pandemic + increasing talent gaps from the "Great Resignation" + a renewed commitment to DE&I have created a perfect storm of TA challenges.

During our March Executive Talent Forum, we will discuss these challenges and look for solutions and tactics.

DATE: Tuesday, March 15, 2022
TIME: 4:00 - 5:00 pm EDT

This online forum, hosted and moderated by The Value Of a Veteran, is for corporate Manager/VP level TA and Diversity practitioners. The event is free to attend and is by invitation only. Up to 4 members from one company may attend.

Non-attributed discussion points and ideas will be summarized and provided to attendees within 2 weeks, post-event.

Request your invitation here: https://lnkd.in/dGYZr4Hs

The Value Of a Veteran reserves the right to decline invitation requests from people/organizations that do not meet the criteria listed above.

You should sign up for this upcoming webinar: How to Develop a Veteran Recruiting Program.

Are you new to recruiting veterans? Starting a program in 2022?

Join me for a 90-min free webinar on Wed Dec 1st where I'll be reviewing some best practices for building a veteran program that delivers results.

Session will be recorded, and you need to register to receive the recording link.

Register for the session at https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/7016373388868/WN_EXlw2FxTT4iwr7jH1m4HtQ

You should sign up for this upcoming webinar: How to Develop a Veteran Recruiting Program. Companies with successful veteran recruitment programs know that it takes more effort than simply posting jobs on veteran job boards or attending veteran job fairs. It takes a strategy and a comprehensive plan that addresses culture, change management, attraction, recruitment, hiring and retention t...

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Military Spouses - Why NOW is the BEST Time To Add Them to Your Talent Strategy. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.

RECRUITERS/ TALENT ACQUISITION: Did you know there is one large, underutilized talent pool that is majority female, many with leadership and international experience? That group is military spouses.

And, now that most companies have accepted that work from home and flexible work arrangements are here to stay, the timing is PERFECT to focus on recruiting military spouses.

If you've never made the connection as to how hiring military spouses can contribute to the bottom line, we invite you to join us on Wed, May 5th for a free webinar to learn more about the military spouse population and why it should and how it can be incorporated into your overall talent strategy.

We will cover:

• How talent mobility and emerging women leaders trends dovetail with the military spouse population
• An overview of the military spouse population with demographics and statistics
• Milspouse experience and education
• How to align a milspouse program with your overall talent strategy
• Strategies for outreach to and attraction of military spouse candidates

This session will be recorded - register to receive recording link.

https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/9516189465224/WN_uFqwX6QgSRWCBmBQTqdzAw

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Military Spouses - Why NOW is the BEST Time To Add Them to Your Talent Strategy. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar. Strategic talent mobility and attracting/hiring/grooming women leaders are increasingly focus for many HR leaders. Talent management strategies that include both are primed to enable business growth, improved financial performance and increased employee engagement. Did you know there is one large, u...

Our CEO, Lisa Rosser, is hosting a Veteran Recruiting Tips Open Q&A today on Clubhouse at 11:30 am EDT. Follow to join her room.

Need an invite? Lisa has a few to extend - must be an Apple device user. Message VOAV here on FB with your cell phone and we will send the invite via text.

Answering the question "how do you implement diversity initiatives and not alienate non-diverse populations, the discussion turned to communicating how "benefits cascade out, not up" and the example of curb cut outs for people who use wheelchairs. It was implemented to help wheelchair users more easily navigate their surroundings, but its benefit cascaded out to help stroller users, dolly users, etc.

Veterans ARE a diverse population: we are diverse in thought and experience, and our population includes 35%+ minority, 25%+ women, people with disabilities and LGBTQ. The cascading benefit to implementing veteran recruiting initiatives will serve so many other communities.

Skills based hiring: top trends includes digital skills (like cloud computing) and human skills (like collaboration, creativity, leadership, etc). Veterans excel at the human skills, no matter what their previous job title in the military. Veterans also have diversity of thought and life experiences.

"Screen in, not out" I've long advised my clients to look for reasons to INCLUDE veterans, not exclude them when screening candidates for open positions. Recruiters have long been trained to (too) quickly screen out job seekers, and the poorly translated military resumes often hold veterans back from being considered.

YES! Focus on skills rather than specific past job titles! More employers focusing on skills will improve veteran recruiting results rather than looking for specific job titles or specific past experience in the industry.

The new realization that many jobs can be performed from home and under flexible work arrangements will significantly improve the results for military spouses who need those arrangements to keep working while their service member serves his/her country. 95% of military spouses are women. It can also improve employment options for veterans with disabilities who may also need the same arrangements.

"Achieving diversity without a target is relying on hope" We need to hold managers responsible for achieving diversity targets. We hold them responsible for sales/revenue targets and other business metrics, and what gets measured, gets done. Why don't we take diversity metrics just as seriously?

Amen! Laura Long, Vice President, National Equity, Inclusion and Diversity at Kaiser Permanente, says in order to increase diversity, companies need to look beyond their top 10 schools for diverse candidates for internships and leadership development roles because your top 10 schools may not be diverse enough.

Companies with successful veteran recruitment programs know that it takes more effort than simply posting jobs on veteran job boards or attending veteran job fairs.

It takes a strategy and a comprehensive plan that addresses culture, change management, attraction, recruitment, hiring and retention to make an effective program.

During this 90-minute overview session I will review the building blocks of effective veteran recruitment & retention programs including:
• Business case development
• Stakeholder buy-in
• Skills analysis and alignment
• Recruiter and hiring manager training
• Marketing and outreach tactics
• Sourcing channels
• Onboarding and management

Join me on Wed Apr 14th and get your veteran recruiting questions answered! Session will be recorded, so sign up now to get the link to the recording after. Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/1716110792333/WN_4UYjIzBJRB-RhHiylUwuVA

So much great information was conveyed by our speakers at the recent (Feb 2021) annual Veteran Recruiting Conference and I am excited to share this info with you during my next free webinar where I will review the top tips our audience took away.

From tactics on recruiting veterans during a pandemic, to how to dramatically increase veteran hires via 1:1 conversations, to designing a career page that increases veteran engagement and opt-in to your CRM, to leading edge practices in veteran retention and utilization of veteran employee resource groups, our speakers covered it all.

Join me on Wednesday, March 17th from 11:30 am - 1:00 pm Eastern Standard as I review these top ideas and answer your questions on veteran recruiting.

This session will be recorded, so if you know you already have a conflict, register anyway and you'll be the first to receive the link to the recording afterward.

To register for this webinar, please go to: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/9016147033507/WN_HUxtbLfhTA2kswA_56PYJg

If 2021 is the year you get serious about veteran recruiting, I invite you to attend my free live webinar next week (Jan 26 from 11 am - 12:30 pm ET) on how to develop a veteran recruiting program.

Companies with successful veteran recruitment programs know that it takes more effort than simply posting jobs on veteran job boards or attending veteran job fairs.

It takes a strategy and a comprehensive plan that addresses culture, change management, attraction, recruitment, hiring and retention to make an effective program.

During this 90-minute overview session I will review the building blocks of effective veteran recruitment & retention programs including:
-Business case development
-Stakeholder buy-in
-Skills analysis and alignment
-Recruiter and hiring manager training
-Marketing and outreach tactics
-Sourcing channels
-Onboarding and integration

Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/.../171.../WN_F9bSysu6R1C3eK2C39gGzA

Session will be recorded - so register even if you have a conflict.

How can we benefit your company?

➡️Significantly reduce or eliminate veteran turnover (cost of turnover is typically $4,000 – $7,000/employee)
➡️Position veteran employees for future leadership positions within the organization
➡️Provide a competitive advantage when recruiting veterans
➡️Position your company higher in the rankings of “military friendly” employers

Learn more:
https://thevalueofaveteran.com/veteran-new-hire-coaching/

Let talk all about coaching!

The coaching program is intended to keep those new hires engaged and focused on adapting and acclimating in that critical first 12-18 months in a civilian job. There is also a focus on re-purposing their military-developed leadership skills to benefit the civilian organization.

The sessions addresses the challenges of transition from military to corporate, while providing actionable steps to determine how to navigate the corporate environment, find new support systems and build new networks while leveraging what the military taught them about acclimating, adapting and improvising when in new environments.

Learn more:
https://thevalueofaveteran.com/veteran-new-hire-coaching/

The Veteran Recruiting Conference is the premier professional development event for directors of talent acquisition and diversity and veteran recruiting program managers seeking leading practices in veteran recruitment and retention.

Join us!

https://veteranrecruitingconference.com/

You could spend months researching and developing your own training for recruiters and managers, and never know for sure if you have covered the information that will make a difference in how they perceive and understand military service…or, you could begin training your people in as little as a few days or weeks using highly regarded content that has been effectively used by hundreds of companies who have documented significant improvement in recruitment and retention of veterans.

Contact us today to learn more:

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The very best veteran recruiting programs help solve specific talent challenges – lack of emerging leaders, back-filling an aging workforce, meeting a change in needed skill requirements, planning for company growth, addressing high turnover or finding skilled trades.

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Let The Value Of a Veteran help you get focused fast and start producing real results for your veteran recruiting efforts.

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Building a recruiting program can be difficult if you’ve never done it before or don’t have much experience with members of the military. Researching and developing the program on your own can take up valuable time and energy, just to deliver disappointing results. Vendors promising results through MOS translators, career fairs, and military job boards can cost tens of thousands of dollars.

Instead, let The Value of a Veteran help. We’re backed by Lisa’s 12 years of experience in developing veteran recruiting programs that get results. We’ll help you build a program that works for your company’s specific needs and goals through proven, convenient training options. We’re the first company to offer this kind of strategic advice and training, and we’re dedicated to helping you achieve real results.

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We offer training and consulting services to teach organizations how to recruit and retain military veterans, guard and reserve members, and military spouses. We accomplish this through a variety of training methods, including live webinars, on-demand web-based training modules, and veteran recruiting bootcamps.

A successful veteran recruiting program can help you add emerging leaders to your team, bring new skills and expertise to your company, back-fill an aging workforce, support company growth, address high turnover rates and so much more.

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Lisa Rosser founded the organization in 2007 at the height of the veteran unemployment crisis. She wrote and published a guide to help employers understand how to recruit and retain veterans and develop a veteran recruiting program.

Since then, we have helped more than 400 of the Fortune 1000 companies plus many smaller organizations design and execute successful veteran recruitment and retention programs.

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We Wanted To Talk To You About Who We Are!

The Value of a Veteran is a veteran-, woman- and minority-owned small business that provides organizations with human resources consulting and training to help them improve their support, recruitment and retention of military veterans.

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Veterans have a lot to offer, but if your company is not familiar with the best practices for recruiting and retaining veterans, you may find yourself struggling to bring them on to your team ➡️The Value of a Veteran can help.

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