Hiring Veterans Book Giveaway – Enter Today!

In recognition of its approaching one-year publishing anniversary and in recognition of its rapidly acquired status as the most awarded book of its kind, I’m happy to announce a Goodreads give-away contest for 10 copies of Hiring Veterans. Enter here to win a copy.

Hiring Veterans is the definitive guide to hiring and retaining members of the military community by the foremost authority on the transition from military to civilian work-life. It is the most awarded book of its kind. Hiring Veterans is a practical, step-by-step guide to organizing hiring programs for our nation’s military as part of your organization’s diversity initiatives. It pulls from case studies of organizations large and small, for- and non-profit, government and academic, and documents their successful strategies so that you might do the same. Veterans represent a real-time talent pool of experienced, trained, and dedicated professionals that, when properly harnessed, comprise an instant means of improving your organization’s competitiveness and productivity.

Hiring Veterans demonstrates how to successfully:

• Organize and staff a veteran support program
• Identify and recruit candidates
• Onboard, deploy, and retain veteran hires
• Capitalize on financial incentives for veteran employment
• Apply for military friendly recognition programs

Each chapter includes case studies, illustrations of key concepts, summaries, and voluminous resources. Let this well-written and easy to follow guidebook help your organization capitalize on this incredibly valuable talent pool.

• Hiring Veterans, when successfully executed at scale, improves national security, incentivizes military recruiting, and saves veterans’ lives while improving the competitiveness and productivity of your organization. It is a win-win-win-win of the highest order.
• Nearly all stereotypes surrounding veterans are patently false and act as a barrier to your organization’s improvement.
• Veterans present the exact skills that civilian business leaders cite as being needed for success in the workplace by virtue of their military experience.
• The Hiring Veterans process:

1. 1. Understand the veteran military culture
   2. Understand governing regulations
   3. Organize and staff a veteran support program
   4. Create support program content
   5. Set expectations – internally and externally
   6. Identify and recruit candidates
   7. Interview candidates and initiate offers
   8. Onboard, train, and retain veteran hires
   9. Validate assimilation, measure success, and share lessons learned