Companies Say Hiring Veterans is Good Business, CNAS Experts Report

Hiring veterans is good for
business, according to a detailed study released today by two experts at the
Center for a New American Security (CNAS).  In Employing America's Veterans: Perspectives from
Businesses, Dr. Margaret C. Harrell, CNAS' Director of the
Military, Veterans and Society Program, and Non-Resident Senior Fellow Nancy
Berglass convey their findings based on extensive interviews of 87
representatives from 69 companies. The authors report that the companies articulated
10 reasons for hiring veterans, including leadership and teamwork skills,
character, structure and discipline, expertise, effectiveness, and
loyalty.

But, they note, businesses also raised some challenges
associated with hiring veterans, such as translating how skills learned in the
military are useful in the civilian workplace, negative stereotypes and
concerns about future deployments. 

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Employing America's
Veterans: Perspectives from Businesses.



Harrell and Berglass make specific recommendations for how government,
businesses, nonprofit organizations and individual veterans can better address
veteran employment.  They suggest that the employment of veterans would
improve if:

• Employers
  recognize and act on the business case for hiring veterans;
• Federal
  law is revised to more effectively protect service members, veterans and
  employers;
• Government
  agencies build more quality public-private partnerships to increase
  veteran employment; and
• The
  military to civilian transition process is improved.

Report
co-author Harrell will also discuss this report at the CNAS annual conference
on Wednesday, June 13 during a session on Reintegrating Veterans into Their
Communities.
Learn more about the conference and register here . The conference will also be webcast live starting at 8:45 a.m. EDT on June 13.



Stay up to date on all CNAS news and events by following @CNASdc on Twitter and visiting us on Facebook. Employing America's Veterans is
also available online here in e-reader and Kindle format.



For all press inquiries, contact Deputy Director of External Relations Sara
Conneighton at (202) 457-9429 or sconneighton@cnas.org.

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