Jobs for Veterans

Reliable Career Web Sites


Still Serving Veterans is an Alabama-based nonprofit organization that provides case management services to unemployed disabled veterans.  The case managers assist vets with short and long-term planning, filing VA claims, and job leads.  Our organization has formed an alliance with Still Serving Veterans to advocate on the hiring of disabled veterans and to network on their behalf to produce more job leads for them to share with the veterans.

The US Department of Veteran Affairs offers an extensive list (seven pages) of general careers sites and groups them according to the type of job: www.vetsuccess.gov/resources/career_sites/. 

www.myfloridamilitary.com is a great site for veterans to use for jobs. It’s only been in operation for a couple of years but has grown tremendously. Opportunity Florida, a regional economic development organization servicing eight rural counties in Northwest Florida, started the site. (Reader Recommended)

The Career One Stop has a list of essential ideas for veterans transitioning back into the workforce.  The Key to Career Success campaign connects veterans and transitioning service members with high quality career planning, training, and job search resources available at local Career One Stop Centers: http://www.careeronestop.org/MILITARYTRANSITION/default.aspx.

Military Stars provide high-caliber, military-exclusive hiring events and job fairs to enable talented military professionals, job seekers and veterans to find their civilian careers after the military. Job seekers meet directly with recruiters and hiring managers from top military-friendly companies to find a civilian job. Active duty, transitioning personnel, and veterans can attend their military hiring events for free:  http://www.militarystars.com/

At USAJobs.gov you will find multiple tools and valuable resources here for all U.S. veterans: job opportunities, forms, benefits, and program information, as well as training assistance for private sector employment: http://www.usajobs.gov/veteranscenter/

The US Postal Service is hiring.  Visit their exam center for information: http://postalexamoffice.com/

GreenJobs4Vets is for veterans who live in eastern Massachusetts: http://www.greenjobs4vets.us/

Educational Opportunities for Veterans:

The Veterans’ Employment and Training Service (VETS) and the Employment and Training Administration’s (ETA) Job Corps are partnering in a demonstration project that will provide Job Corps’ comprehensive array of career development services to eligible Veterans 20-24 years old to prepare them for successful careers. This project is fully-funded.  Here is the information for the demonstration project:  (800) 733 - JOBS / 5627, www.recruiting.jobcorps.gov
Here are the demonstration sites:

  1. Atterbury Job Corps Center in Edinburgh, Indiana;
  2. Earle C. Clements Job Corps Center in Morganfield, Kentucky; and
  3. Excelsior Springs Job Corps Center in Excelsior Springs, Missouri.

The new GI Bill provides an educational benefit package to veterans, servicemen, and their families.  It has the potential to pay for your entire college education including books, supplies, and housing: http://www.gibill.va.gov/

    Troops to Teachers provides Counseling and Referral services to military personnel interested in beginning a second career in public education as a teacher. The DANTES Troops to Teachers office will help applicants identify teacher certification requirements, programs leading to certification and employment opportunities. http://www.dantes.doded.mil/dantes_Web/troopstoteachers/index.asp

Cal-State University in Long Beach has a Veteran's University which is connected to the VA Healthcare System and  is described as a, “one stop shopping” transitional stage for veterans returning disabled from Iraq and Afghanistan: http://www.csulb.edu/divisions/students/veterans_university/