“…the resume was so good that the folks who interviewed me commented on how well it was written.”

Why those of us at CareerPro Global love our jobs:

“Dear Peggi,

“Thanks goes out in a very large part to the wonderful resume that you prepared for me, I got a new job!!!!!!  I got a job as an Assistant Management Analyst with promotion potential to a Management Analyst.  The job is a big promotion for me and actually goes two grades higher than the job that I have now.

“The resume that you did for me was geared towards a Management Analyst position.  I got the job within my agency and it was the very first job I applied for since you did the resume for me.  In fact the resume was so good that the folks that interviewed me commented on how well it was written and one of them even said they were going to use some ideas for their resume as well.

“Thanks again,

“ E. R., Federal Reserve Board of Governors”

Reverse Boot Camp

The following link to the White House Blog gives more information on Reverse Boot Camp for our Armed Forces members leaving the service.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2012/07/25/transitioning-our-service-members

Joining Forces for Veterans Day

With Veteran’s Day fast approaching, we wanted to give veterans out there some valuable and FREE training!

Here at CareerPro Global, we have partnered with a great company called Mindflash that offers a powerful e-learning software platform. The reason for the partnership is that we are both offering our services for free as part of a much larger, high-visibility initiative for veterans that is coming soon from the White House.

The link to the free training, created by our own Director of Veteran Affairs and Iraqi War Vet  Lee Kelley, is below, and it’s really designed to get you thinking about some of the very first steps you should take as you transition out of the military and into the civilian world. With over a million people projected to get out of the military in the next few years, this training is more important than ever.

GET THE TRAINING!

Future courses will cover topics such as resume writing and interviewing, but as you’ll see, we think that the first steps should be all about defining and refining your vision before developing your actual resume and other application materials.

We really value your feedback! This draft of the course is still a work in progress. We are inviting you to watch it today so that we can get your feedback and make the course even better in time for the White House initiative. Please take a look, enjoy, and then provide us with feedback either here or on our facebook pages.

Veterans Transition HQ facebook page

CareerPro Global’s facebook page

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Thank you for your service, and Happy Veterans Day.

HHS joins White House initiative to put veterans to work

Would anyone else like a break from talking about the Office of Personnel Management and the USAJobsweb site? I’d love to bring you some positive news today.  Taken from www.govexec.com, this news is especially welcome right before the celebration of Veteran’s Day:

HHS joins White House initiative to put veterans to work

“The Health and Human Services Department is getting involved in the Obama administration’s efforts to hire more veterans, officials announced Tuesday.

“HHS, in coordination with the White House veterans task force, unveiled new initiatives, including an order to its network of 8,000 community health centers to hire 8,000 veterans during the next three years. A separate initiative gives veterans priority in physician assistant training programs.

“To help with veteran hiring, community health centers will use roughly $2.58 billion provided them through the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

“Tom Van Coverden, president of the National Association of Community Health Centers, expressed support for the hiring initiative. “Our national organization has embraced it fully and is ready to accept that challenge,” he said.

“The initiatives follow a recent push to engage the help of the private sector in creating jobs for veterans, rather than going through the legislative process.

“President Obama in August proposed the Returning Heroes tax credit of $5,600 for private firms that hire veterans, and the Wounded Warriors tax credit of $9,600 for hiring veterans with combat-related injuries. Both are part of the American Jobs Act legislation that Congress has yet to pass.

“The second initiative announced Tuesday would give priority grants to physician assistant programs that focus on training veterans and build on previous military medical experience, when possible.

“Physician assistant programs require some previous health care experience, which is why the administration is focusing on veterans with battlefield medic experience. The field is expected to be high growth. According to Bureau of Labor Statistics, the sector should increase by more than 29,000 between 2008 and 2018.

“Ensuring veterans know about these opportunities will be a challenge for the White House and HHS, officials said.

“‘All of us at HHS, Labor and [Veterans Affairs] are making sure we connect vets to community health center openings as soon as they’re available,’ said Mary Wakefield, administrator of the Health Resources and Services Administration.

“Matt Flavin, director of the White House Veterans, Military Families and Wounded Warrior Task Force said the administration plans to include the Defense Department in creating outreach solutions for veterans before they leave active-duty service.

“The administration also hopes the physician assistant training programs will introduce effective outreach ideas to recruit veterans said Flavin, who stressed this is one small part of a comprehensive initiative and more solutions will be announced by Veterans Day.”

(Original story at http://bit.ly/sTTuS6)

OPM proposes new pathways to employment

The new Pathways Program is meant to streamline the recruitment of interns into the federal government while giving preference status to veterans, something the latter believed had been missing in the past. As always, it will be interesting to see how the final plan looks upon its start in January 2012.  Will Pathways make it easier or more difficult for veterans to grab a spot? Will the new program welcome veterans in name only or fulfill the promise?  What are your thoughts?

OPM proposes new pathways to employment