November 07, 2011

Military.com|by Bryant Jordan

The White House on Monday announced a broad new veterans job training program that the Obama administration hopes will help ease unemployment among former service members returning home to their civilian lives.

Under a "Gold Card Initiative," President Barack Obama has ordered some 3,000 Department of Labor offices across the country to offer one-on-one employment assistance to veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

"We really believe this will help these young men and women receive the tools they need to navigate a difficult labor market and help translate their military experience to civilian employers," said Danielle Gray, deputy director of the National Economic Council.

Gray, speaking during a telephone briefing with reporters in advance of Obama's afternoon announcement, said people leaving the military for the civilian world will get six months of personal case management job services at local labor centers.

This includes counselors to help navigate and coordinate job searches; connecting veterans with employers and job banks; working with them on translating their military specialties into civilian skills; and providing them guidance on training and their GI Bill benefits.

Unemployment among veterans who have served since the Sept. 11 attacks is about 11.5 percent, or about two percentage points higher than for the general population, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

White House officials are worried this could only worsen as the conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq end and the services draw down to postwar levels.

They said the best step toward lowering veteran unemployment would be for Congress to pass a jobs bill that includes tax incentives for employers to hire vets. Under the plan, employers would get tax breaks of up to $9,600 per veteran, depending on how long the veteran has been out of work and whether he or she has a service connected disability.

Obama and other White House officials blamed Republicans in Congress for not getting behind the jobs bill, the latest chapter in an ongoing political battle over what Obama calls Republican obstructionism.

White House officials also announced plans for a new online skills translator for veterans called MyNextMove.org.

"It's an easy to use tool," said Matt Flavin, White House director of Veterans and Wounded Warrior Policy. "What it does is allows the service member or veteran to go in, type in their military occupational code and discover what civilian opportunities and occupations they might qualify for."

Flavin said it also provides information on career field salaries, apprenticeships and training programs.

Aneesh Chopra, chief technology officer at the White House, said the administration is also announcing a Veterans Job Bank search engine that will help vets find jobs with companies committed to hiring them.

Chopra said the site is already live with about 500,000 "tagged jobs," courtesy of Simply Hired, a job search engine. The search capability was made possible by a cooperative effort among Google, Yahoo and Bing, Chopra said.

The jobs bank is also being supported by Monster.com, Military.com, Indeed, Simply Hired, and social networks such as Linked-In, Twitter and Branch-Out. Monster is the parent company of Military.com.

"This initiative is meant to simply the method by which job seekers who are veterans or svc members who are transition to find those employers who are seeking to find them," Chopra said.

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