National Guard-Veterans Jobs Campaign Joins White
House Push for “Streamlined Employment Opportunities”
ATLANTA, April 30, 2013 – The American Jobs for America’s Heroes (AJAH)
National Guard and veterans’ jobs campaign today joined with First Lady
Michelle Obama and the current White House initiative to help service members
and veterans find and qualify for quality jobs in the private sector.
The AJAH campaign, made up of more than 80 trade and
professional associations, non-profit organizations, and state Chambers of
Commerce representing more than 150,000 companies nationwide, is a non-profit
alliance with the National Guard to help unemployed National Guard members,
veterans and spouses find skilled jobs in the private sector. Phillips
66, an energy manufacturing and logistics company (NYSE:PSX), is the lead
national sponsor for this campaign. Currently, 60,000 National Guard members
are unemployed – approximately 20% of the total force.
First Lady Michelle Obama’s announcement yesterday of the new IT credentialing
and training effort underscores the ongoing challenge of “translating
military experience in hundreds of disciplines to match private sector jobs
requirements,” said Steve Nowlan, president of Center for America, a
non-profit coordinating the AJAH campaign.
“The men and women who serve in the National Guard or
have served in the military branches are trained, skilled, and equipped to move
into private sector employment in many fields, including manufacturing,” said Bill Gaskin, president of Precision Metalforming
Association (PMA), which represents the $113 billion metalforming industry in
North America with 900 member companies. PMA is a member of the AJAH
campaign.
“The process of transitioning from the military to the
private sector presents obstacles that our industry, the AJAH campaign, and the
federal government’s current push will address,” said Dave Tilstone, president of the National Tooling
and Machining Association, which represents the $40 billion tooling and
machining industry with 2,000 members and 50 chapters nationally. NTMA is
a member of the AJAH campaign.
How American Jobs for
America’s Heroes works
AJAH provides direct,
hands-on support for employers and for job applicants, serving both as a
critical stand-alone program and an important complement to existing employment
efforts and job fairs. Job postings are plugged directly into a case
management system that unifies National Guard Employment Network and voluntary
state supports groups around the nation into a unified infrastructure to
improve matching and follow-through.
Companies that register are
assigned case managers who work with company recruiting staff to provide
hands-on help in making matches. There are no fees to participating companies
or job candidates.
Employers who want to post
open positions on National Guard and veteran’s job banks can sign up through
the Center for America website at: www.CenterforAmerica.org/register.html
About
The Center for America
The
Center for America (www.centerforamerica.org) is a non-profit organization founded in 2004 that
focuses its national efforts on educating and empowering the public about
barriers to free enterprise, the need for expanded skills training and job
creation, and the impact of lawsuit abuse on reducing job creation.
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