Remembering Our Veterans and Active Duty Personnel

With heartfelt gratitude for their outstanding service, bravery, and sacrifice, we dedicate today’s Daily Leap post to our nation's veterans and active duty personnel who now look to transition from the armed services to the civilian workforce.

• G.I. Jobs released its annual list of top 100 military-friendly employers (annual revenue exceeding $500 million) on Military Friendly.com. The web site also lists top military-friendly schools, military spouse friendly employers, and military spouse friendly schools.


• Looking to career transition to the civilian building and construction trades? Go to Helmets to Hardhats for current opportunities.


• Hope for Warriors announced its first Above & Beyond Seminar specifically for women veterans to be held in Washington, DC, in January 2014.


• Are you a post-9/11 disabled veteran with a passion for entrepreneurship and small business management? EBV may just be the resource to kick-off your civilian career!

High 5 Weekly Career Transitions Roundup: Veterans Day Edition

With heartfelt gratitude for their outstanding service, bravery, and sacrifice, we dedicate this weekly roundup to our nation's veterans and active duty personnel who now look to transition from the armed services to the civilian workforce.

• CMF re-aired a November 2011 podcast in recognition of Veterans Day in Florida’s Seminole County and to raise public awareness to the "issue of women veterans and the propensity of many of us to overlook women veterans”.

• Teach for America announced its first veterans recruitment initiative, You Served For America, Now Teach For America.


• Operation Workforce, which serves as an online one-stop for veteran resources and services in Georgia, was announced at the Georgia Jobs for Veterans Employer Breakfast.


• Michigan Governor Rick Snyder declared November as Hire a Veteran Month and announced a series of upcoming career fairs for veterans titled Operation Vet Connection 2012.


• U.S. News & World Report highlighted scholarship opportunities for veterans transitioning to civilian life, including the GI Bill and Post-9/11 GI Bill, the American Legion's Nontraditional Student Scholarship and the Veterans United Foundation Scholarship Program.