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VA Creates Office to
Coordinate Hiring Veterans
April 10, 2008
Peake: Initiative Builds on Long-Standing Support
for Disabled Veterans
WASHINGTON – Secretary of Veterans Affairs
Dr. James B. Peake announced creation of a Veterans
Employment Coordination Service to oversee the
Department’s program to recruit new veterans
into the VA workforce, especially recently disabled
combat veterans.
“It is important VA continues to set the
example to private and public employers,” Peake
said. “This program builds upon the Department’s
long tradition of service to veterans, particularly
the disabled.”
The new office will
work with military transition programs, veterans
service organizations and other VA programs to
promote careers in the VA workforce. The program
will also work with VA managers and human resource
offices to ensure supervisors are aware of programs
for hiring veterans. Efforts to assist severely
injured veterans have already begun with the
Department’s participation
in local career fairs targeting veterans of the
Global War on Terror.
In November 2007, VA announced plans to hire 10
full-time regional veterans employment coordinators
who provide hands-on assistance to veterans interested
in careers at the Department. The new office will
oversee the regional coordinators.
About 31 percent of
VA’s 260,000 employees
are veterans, and nearly 8 percent are service-connected
disabled veterans. VA ranks first among non-Defense
agencies in the hiring of disabled veterans and
is second only to the Department of Defense in
the overall number of veterans on the workforce.
Last fiscal year, VA hired more than 9,000 veterans.
SOURCE:
US Department of Veterans Affair
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