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Injured or disabled as a result of your military service or outside of your military service? Find programs and benefits that can help you.
Find Your Local American Job Center (AJC)
Nearly 2,300 AJCs nationwide help people search for jobs, find training, and answer other employment-related questions. Veteran and Military Transition Center is a one-stop website for employment, training, and financial help after military service.
Connect with a DVOP at your local American Job Center (CareerOneStop.org)
DOL Employment and Training
The Jobs for Veterans State Grants (JVSG)
The Jobs for Veterans State Grants (JVSG) program provides federal funding, through a formula grant, to 54 State Workforce Agencies (SWAs) to hire dedicated staff to provide individualized career and training-related services to veterans and eligible persons with significant barriers to employment and to assist employers fill their workforce needs with job-seeking veterans.
Jobs for Veterans State Grants (dol.gov)
Apprenticeship.gov
Apprenticeship.gov is the one-stop source to connect career seekers, employers, and education partners with apprenticeship resources. Discover apprenticeships across industries, how programs are started by employers, and how to become an apprentice.
Apprenticeship
Homeless Veterans’ Reintegration Program (HVRP)
HVRP has two core objectives which are to provide services to assist in reintegrating homeless veterans into meaningful employment within the labor force and to stimulate the development of effective service delivery systems that will address the complex problems facing homeless veterans.
Homeless Veterans' Reintegration Program (dol.gov)
National Veterans’ Training Institute (NVTI)
The NVTI training focuses on improving employment services for veterans through a professional skills-development program. About 70% of participants are Disabled Veterans' Outreach Program specialists and Local Veterans' Employment Representatives; the remaining participants are state employees and administrative staff, federal employees and others involved with veterans' employment and training issues.
National Veterans' Training Institute (dol.gov)
CareerOneStop
Career One Stop offers a variety of resources from finding an American Job Center for employment and training resources, to Ticket to Work through the United States Social Security Administration.
Veteran (CareerOneStop.org)
Crosswalk Search
The Crosswalk Search allows you to use codes from other classification systems to find the corresponding O*NET-SOC occupations. This function can save time when you are familiar with occupations in other systems and want to explore corresponding occupations in O*NET.
Military Crosswalk Search (onetonline.org)
Internships and Placement into Permanent Jobs
Connecting employers with highly motivated post secondary students and recent graduates with disabilities.
Workforce Recruitment Program (WRP)
Federal Employment and Training
Post-9/11 GI Bill (Chapter 33)
The Post-9/11 GI Bill (Chapter 33) helps you pay for school or job training. If you’ve served on active duty after September 10, 2001, you may qualify for the Post-9/11 GI Bill (Chapter 33). Find out if you can get this education benefit.
Post-9/11 GI Bill (Chapter 33) (va.gov)
Harry W. Colmery Veterans Educational Assistance Act (“Forever GI Bill”)
The Harry W. Colmery Veterans Educational Assistance Act, also known as the “Forever GI Bill,” will bring significant changes to Veterans education benefits over the coming years. Most changes enhance or expand education benefits for Veterans, servicemembers, families, and survivors.
Forever GI Bill - Harry W. Colmery Veterans Educational Assistance Act (va.gov)
Veteran and Military Spouse Talent Engagement Program
The Veteran and Military Spouse Talent Engagement Program (VMSTEP) provides employment readiness assistance and outreach to transitioning service members, Veterans, and eligible military spouses while advocating the use of special hiring authorities, employment programs, and Veteran retention strategies to help VA become the employer of choice for Veterans and military spouses.
VA for Vets: Your Gateway to VA Careers (va.gov)
Hiring Our Heroes
Hiring Our Heroes (HOH) connects the military community—service members, military spouses, and veterans—with American businesses to create economic opportunity and a strong and diversified workforce.
Hiring Our Heroes (hiringourheroes.org)
Your Ticket to Work
If you are an adult age 18 through 64, and you get disability benefits, you qualify for the Ticket to Work program. You can use the Ticket to Work program to get the services and support you need to go to work. The goal is to help you earn enough money so you can become financially independent.
Your Ticket to Work (ssa.gov)
Special Hiring Authorities for Veterans
Several special hiring authorities apply to veterans seeking federal employment.
- Special Hiring Authorities for veterans (CareerOneStop.org)
- Veterans' Preference Information (dol.gov)
Vocational Rehabilitation
State Vocational Rehabilitation Agencies
RSA provides formula grants to Vocational Rehabilitation (VR) agencies to administer the State VR Services, State Supported Employment Services, and Independent Living Services for Older Individuals Who Are Blind programs in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and four Territories.
State Vocational Rehabilitation Agencies (ed.gov)
Veteran Readiness and Employment
You may receive Veteran Readiness and Employment (VR&E) (Formerly known as Vocational Rehabilitation and Employment) services to help with job training, education, employment accommodations, resume development, and job seeking skills coaching. Other services may be provided to assist Veterans and Service members in starting their own businesses or independent living services for those who are severely disabled and unable to work in traditional employment.
Veteran Readiness and Employment (va.gov)
Survivors’ and Dependents’ Educational Assistance
Learn about the Survivors’ and Dependents’ Educational Assistance (DEA) program. If you’re the child or spouse of a Veteran or service member who has died, is captured or missing, or has disabilities, you may be able to get help paying for school or job training through the DEA program—also called Chapter 35.
Survivors’ And Dependents’ Educational Assistance | Veterans Affairs (va.gov)
Other Employment and Training Resources
Bridge for Education
Sentinel’s Bridge for Education provides resources that allow Sentinels to focus their attention on their studies, career, and family knowing they have a caring team to back them up. Sentinels of Freedom supports our veterans with a well-rounded, all-encompassing program catered to their specific needs. This may include financial coaching, mentoring, networking, and overall guidance.
Bridge for Education (sentinelsoffreedom.org)
Disability Solutions
Disability Solutions collaborates with employers to help them attract, hire and engage top talent from the disability community.
Disability Solutions (disabilitytalent.org)
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Find Your Local American Job Center (AJC)
Nearly 2,300 AJCs nationwide help people search for jobs, find training, and answer other employment-related questions. Veteran and Military Transition Center is a one-stop website for employment, training, and financial help after military service.
Connect with a LVER at your local American Job Center (CareerOneStop.org)
Hire a Veteran
U.S. Department of Labor VETS Regional Veterans’ Employment Coordinators (RVECs) work to help employers find service members, veterans, and military spouses. Email your RVEC by region: Contact your regional RVEC to find, hire and retain service members, veterans, and military spouses.
Hire a Veteran
HIRE Vets Medallion Award
The HIRE Vets Medallion Award is the only federal-level veterans’ employment award that recognizes a company or organization’s commitment to veteran hiring, retention, and professional development.
HIREVets Medallion (hirevets.gov)
Work Opportunity Tax Credit (WOTC)
The Work Opportunity Tax Credit (WOTC) is a Federal tax credit available to employers for hiring and employing individuals from certain targeted groups who have faced significant barriers to employment. WOTC joins other workforce programs that facilitate access to good jobs for American workers.
Work Opportunity Tax Credit (irs.gov)
Veterans and the Americans with Disabilities Act: A Guide for Employers
Title I of the ADA prohibits an employer from treating an applicant or employee unfavorably in all aspects of employment—including hiring, promotions, job assignments, training, termination, and any other terms, conditions, and privileges of employment—because he or she has a disability, a history of having a disability, or because the employer regards him as having a disability.
Veterans and the Americans with Disabilities Act: A Guide for Employers (eeoc.gov)
Disabled Access Credit
Provides a non-refundable credit of up to $5,000 for small businesses that incur expenditures for the purpose of providing access to persons with disabilities. An eligible small business is one that earned $1 million or less or had no more than 30 full time employees in the previous year; they may take the credit each and every year they incur access expenditures. Refer to Form 8826, Disabled Access Credit (eeoc.gov), for information about eligible expenditures.
Disabled Access Credit (eeoc.gov)
Other Resources
Vet Guide for HR Professionals
The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) administers entitlement to veterans' preference in employment under title 5, United States Code, and oversees other statutory employment requirements in titles 5 and 38. (Title 38 also governs Veterans' entitlement to benefits administered by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA).)
Vet Guide for HR Professionals (opm.gov)
Direct Hire Authority
This section assists Federal agencies with making determinations whether direct-hire is the best course of action for meeting their recruitment needs when experiencing a severe shortage of candidates or critical hiring; how to acquire direct-hire; and how to use and process direct-hire actions under the competitive process using delegated examining procedures.
Direct Hire Authority (opm.gov)
Hiring Authorities
This Hiring Authorities section covers various topics dealing with Federal employment. Topics covered in this section will describe the competitive hiring process; hiring authorities available to agencies to hire veterans, students, interns; and information for current and former Federal employees such as reinstatement, transfer. Each topic includes references to the various applicable laws, regulations, and guidance.
Hiring Authorities (opm.gov)
Hiring Officials
Most departments and agencies in the Federal Government are required to have an affirmative action program for the recruitment, employment, and advancement of disabled veterans. The law requires agencies to develop annual Disabled Veterans Affirmative Action Program (DVAAP) Plans.
Hiring Officials (fedshirevets.org)