Career for military veterans in the civilian world can be quite challenging especially because some companies are reluctant when to comes to employing the vets for fear that they might be having post-traumatic stress conditions that may hinder them from producing the best results in at work, or due to the fear that the vets may be lacking the right skills for the jobs among other reasons. For more information please visit: http://www.GreenCollarVets.org

2. Career for military veterans in the civilian
world can be quite challenging especially
because some companies are reluctant
when to comes to employing the vets for fear
that they might be having post-traumatic
stress conditions that may hinder them from
producing the best results in at work, or due to
the fear that the vets may be lacking the right
skills for the jobs among other reasons.
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3. But let's not forget that the vets have
outstanding skills and knowledge that can
really help in boosting the productivity of a
company.
For instance, they have got good teamwork
skills, they are able to work under pressure and
withstand harsh working conditions.
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4. These are just but a few good attributes that
the veterans have.
There are other companies hire veterans and
are proud of it.
One such company is the General Electric
Company. It announced lately that it has a
corporate initiative in place that will enable it
to hire more veterans.
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5. Last year, a team of 76 companies which
include Lockheed Martin Corporation as well
as J.P Morgan Chase and Company set a
target of hiring approximately 100, 000
veterans by the year 2020.
By the end of September this year (2012), the
companies had successfully hired a total of
28,186 veterans.
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6. Even with efforts like these, the number of
veterans who are heading in the U.S job
market which happens to be relatively weak
is growing every day.
A report from the White House indicated that
one million people will be back to civilian life
come the next five years partly due to the
withdrawal of the United States troops from
Afghanistan.
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7. A company by the name Advanced
Technology services Inc., which provides
machinery maintenance and other services
for manufacturers, has employed 3000
veterans in an effort to reduce the ex-military
employment rate.
That is about 30% of the company's
workforce. The owner of this company boasts
of the excellent services provided by the
veterans he has employed.
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8. Some of the attributes he has pointed out
concerning the veterans include promptness
in the work, a professional conduct as well as
courtesy.
Since his company deals in machinery
maintenance, the military skills in repair and
maintenance of ships and aircraft's matched
well with the work done in the company. The
veterans did not need to undergo a lot of
retraining to be acquainted with the job.
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9. Kennametal Inc. is another company that has
been utilizing the talent of the veterans. It is a
company that deals in making metal-working
tools and alloys.
Due to the teamwork skills the veterans
have, they are usually employed to work
under the factory floor-production team
among other jobs.
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10. JoyGlobal Inc. is another company that has
seen a lot of success when it started using the
services of veteran workers.
It is a company that deals in making mining
equipment.
Its owner brags of his veteran employees
having positive can-do attitudes and are so
easy to work with.
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11. The veterans can also be employed as
teachers customer service
representatives, Information Technology
Consultants, Firemen, Network
Administrators, Intelligence
Analysts, Management Consultants, Project
Analysts, Helicopter Pilots, Technical
Writers, FBI agents just to mention a few.
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