DIRECTIVE	:	EMPLOYMENT SERVICE PROGRAM LETTER NO. 01-00
TO	:	ALL STATE EMPLOYMENT SECURITY AGENCIES
FROM	:	GRACE A. KILBANE Administrator Office of Workforce Security
SUBJECT	:	Wagner-Peyser Act Services For Employment Opportunities in the U.S. Armed Forces

1. Purpose. To facilitate the provision of employer services to U.S. Armed Forces recruiting offices and to identify military job opportunities to job seekers.

2. References. Section 7(a) of The Wagner-Peyser Act, as amended; 20 CFR part 652.3.

3. Background. This Program Letter provides guidance for State Employment Security Agencies and local officesoperating as part of One-Stop Delivery Systems about providing information and referrals to career opportunities available in the active and reserve components of the U.S. Armed Forces. Employment in the all-volunteer U.S. Armed Forces provides for a wide variety of individual training and educational opportunities that may lead to a military career and which also are transferable to civilian employment.

   According to the legislative mandates of the WagnerPeyser Act, as amended by the Workforce Investment Act of 1998, recruiting offices of the U.S. Armed Forces are required to be served as employer customers. Services to military recruiting offices may include listing military job opportunities with State Job Banks and America's Job Bank, referring job seekers who indicate an interest in military service to U.S. Armed Forces recruiting offices, and providing recruiters with on-site recruitment opportunities as are provided to other employers from time to time.

4. State Responsibilities. State agency local offices are encouraged to work with U.S. Armed Forces recruiters to develop job orders for specific active and reserve component military occupations to list in the State Job Banks and the America's Job Bank systems. State agencies also may process active and reserve component job orders through the use of a master job order that covers all military occupations or through other methods that are consistent with State standards for processing job orders.

   Military job orders should be prepared, referrals verified, and placements counted through cooperation with U.S. Armed Forces recruiting offices. Employer services should be provided to local military recruiting offices as they would to any other employer customer. For State agency record-keeping purposes, States are free to determine the appropriate coding to facilitate data entry into their information system. Service in the all-volunteer U.S. Armed Forces shall be considered as employment for the purposes of State Employment Security Agency activities and can be counted for referral, placement, or obtained employment credit.

   The U.S. Army Recruiting Command has expressed an interest in working cooperatively with employment service local offices and will notify U.S. Army recruiters of this Program Letter. Local offices are encouraged to assist other branches of the Armed Forces as requested.

5. Military Job Orders. In addition to the interaction between local offices and local U.S. Armed Forces recruiting offices, military job orders are also available in America's Job Bank (AJB). Military job orders appear under the "military" category in AJB and job seekers may search for job opportunities using military occupational codes (MOC)for each branch of service.

6. Action Required. SESA Administrators are requested to provide this information to appropriate staff.

7. Inquiries. Direct questions to the appropriate ETA Regional Office.