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10 Success Factors for Military Recruitment

Despite best intentions, many organizations are failing to recruit and retain the nearly three million military personnel who have made the transition from military to civilian life and employment since 2001. Traditional resume and job matching strategies simply don’t work for veteran recruitment. Employers — particularly federal contractors who now must meet an annual OFCCP benchmark of 7 percent for protected veterans – want to increase their hiring of veterans. The problem is that they don’t know how.