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Companies help reduce veteran joblessness – 5 ways to stock your talent pipeline with veterans

As the nation prepares to celebrate Veteran’s Day Sunday, there is encouraging news about the progress American business has made in hiring veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The unemployment rate among veterans of what the government calls Gulf War II is the highest of all veterans.

Collectively, veterans have an unemployment rate of 6.3 percent, well below the national rate of 7.9 percent. However, post-9/11 veterans have an unemployment rate of 10 percent.

John Zappe

Full Story: http://www.sourcecon.com/news/2012/11/09/veterans-employment-prospects-improve-but-women-vets-still-struggle/

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As our military winds down operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, large numbers of veterans will likely enter a difficult U.S. job market. And those veterans who served in the military after 9/11 seem to have it tougher than other job seekers, with an unemployment rate almost two percentage points above the average.

Nancy Altobello

Full Story: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/nancy-altobello/hiring-veterans-_b_2114480.html

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