Employment Initiatives

Employment initiatives are with Department of Labor, Department of Defense, Department of Education and Department of Veterans Affairs and can be found at www.whitehouse.gov/vets.

 The American Jobs Act: http://www.mynextmove.org/vets/
The Department of Labor launched My Next Move for Veterans, a new online resource that allows veterans to enter their military occupation code and discover civilian occupations for which they are well qualified. The site will also include information about salaries, apprenticeships, and other related education and training programs. It is an easy-to-use online tool created by the Department of Labor that allows veterans to enter information about their experience and skills in the field, and match it with civilian careers that put that experience to use. The site also includes information about salaries, apprenticeships, and other related education and training programs.


 Veterans Job Bank: https://www.nationalresourcedirectory.gov/
The Administration launched the Veterans Jobs Bank, at National Resource Directory, an easy to use tool to help veterans find job postings from companies looking to hire them. It already searches over 500,000 job postings and is growing. In a few easy steps, companies can make sure the job postings on their own websites are part of this Veterans Jobs Bank. In support of this initiative, the Veterans Job Bank Widget was created, which allows access to the Veterans Job Bank directly from other websites. An easy to implement feature that any individual or organization can use, the Veterans Job Bank Widget allows Veterans to quickly and easily conduct a targeted job search without ever leaving the website they are on. To make things even easier, the Veterans Job Bank Widget requires no maintenance. As jobs are added to the Veterans Job Bank, the widget automatically updates. A highlight of the tool’s job search function is a military occupational code (MOC) translator that converts the user’s military experience into related civilian job skills – which can then be used to match specific skills or jobs. In addition, users can search by keyword and location at https://www.nationalresourcedirectory.gov/jobSearch/index.

 Veteran Gold Card: www.dol.gov/vets/goldcard.html
Post-9/11 veterans will be able to download the Veteran Gold Card, which entitles them to enhanced services including six months of personalized case management, assessments and counseling, at the roughly 3,000 One-Stop Career Centers located across the country. This could help serve the more than 200,000 unemployed Post-9/11 veterans. The Veteran Gold Card provides post-9/11 veterans with extra support as they transition out of the military, such as job readiness assessment, including interviews and testing; development of an Individual Development Plan (IDP); career guidance through group or individual counseling that helps veterans in making training and career decisions; provision of labor market, occupational, and skills transferability information that inform educational, training, and occupational decisions; referral to job banks, job portals, and job openings; referral to employers and registered apprenticeship sponsors; referral to training by WIA-funded or third party service providers; and monthly follow-up by an assigned case manager for up to six months. Locate your nearest One Stop Career Center by going to America’s Service Locator www.servicelocator.org or by calling Toll-Free 1-877-US2-JOBS (1-877-872-5627) TTY: 1-877-889-5627. Once a One-Stop Career Center has been located, go there and present this Card.