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  • Hiring Our Heroes
    The U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation's Hiring Our Heroes (HOH) is a nationwide initiative to help Veterans, transitioning service members and military spouses find meaningful employment opportunities. Hiring Our Heroes provides a variety of tools such as a resume builder,a corporate fellowship program and a career planning tool along with several hiring events across the U.S.
  • Free Year of LinkedIn
    LinkedIn offers Veterans, VA caregivers, and Fry Scholars a free 1-year premium career subscription, including one year of access to LinkedIn Learning. The one-year free upgrade to premium includes an incredibly valuable resource – a library of over 14,000 business, technical, and creative courses on LinkedIn Learning. This means that courses on software development, graphic design, leadership, data science, photography, and more are all available to eligible Veterans. Almost every professional skill has a course on LinkedIn Learning.
  • Next PACT Act Deadline: Health Care Enrollment for Veterans Deployed to Combat Zones
    Until 11:59 p.m. Sept. 30, 2023, Veterans who deployed to a combat zone, never enrolled in VA health care and left the military between Sept. 11, 2001, and Oct. 1, 2013, are eligible to enroll directly in VA health care through the PACT Act. This special enrollment period gives Veterans who served in Iraq, Afghanistan and other combat zones an opportunity to enroll directly in VA health care without first applying for disability compensation benefits.
  • Delve into Diversity at VA with our Practitioners in Puerto Rico
    In describing the diversity of our facilities in Puerto Rico, Jorge Santiago, a Whole Health coach at the San Juan VA Medical Center, explained, “We have a Latino community, we have a Black community that work here, [and] we have a community of age 50-plus workers that need to feel their rights are being considered.”
  • Military Spouse Employment Partnership
    The Need to Support Military Spouses! While military spouses are well educated and highly qualified for a range of careers, they face a 24 percent unemployment rate and a 25 percent wage gap compared to their civilian counterparts. Seventy-seven percent of these spouses want or need work, yet frequent relocation is often a barrier to finding and maintaining a rewarding career. The inability of spouses to obtain and retain fulfilling employment as they relocate with the military compromises the quality of life of military families and the readiness of the military force. Click the blue heading above for more information or create an account today @ https://msepjobs.militaryonesource.mil/msep/account/log-in
  • Modernizing VA Benefits Delivery & Claims Process
    It’s vital that Veterans have the tools they need to access the benefits they’ve earned and deserve. To help Veterans apply for and receive VA benefits more efficiently, VA’s Office of Information and Technology (OIT), Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA), and Debt Management Center (DMC) have been working to create innovative technology solutions. Together, OIT and VBA are modernizing VA systems to help provide a better benefits delivery experience—for both Veterans seeking benefits and VA staff administering them.
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