Webinars
Training without leaving your desk
The Value Of a Veteran is pleased to now offer both pre-recorded and live web seminars on our most requested military recruiting topics. These information-rich sessions dive deeper into the ideas presented in The Value Of a Veteran™ guide, offering additional context and detailed examples. Click on any title to see the webinar description.
| Topic | Length | Price | Order |
|---|---|---|---|
| 90 min | $199 |  |
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| Sourcing Military Veteran Talent | 60 min | $149 | |
| Translating the Military Resume and Interviewing Tips | 90 min | $199 | |
| Recruitment Marketing to Attract Military Veterans | 90 min | $199 | |
| How To Retain Veterans After You've Hired Them | 90 min | $199 |  |
| Hiring Managers: Understanding the Value of Military Veterans to Your Organization and Tips for Interviewing | 90 min | $199 | |
| Supervisors: Tips and Techniques for Helping Military Members Transition to the Civilian Workplace | 90 min | $199 | |
| Topic | Date | Time | Price | Order |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Veteran ERGs: Deriving Real Business Value from a Veteran Employee Resource Group | Mon, Feb 6th | 2:30 - 4:00 pm ET | SPECIAL $99 | |
| Conducting a Military Open House Recruiting Event: Q&A with Progressive Insurance | Fri, Feb 24th | 12:30 - 1:30 pm ET | FREE | |
| Veteran ERGs: Deriving Real Business Value from a Veteran Employee Resource Group | Tue, Feb 28th | 12:30 - 2:00 pm ET | SPECIAL $99 | |
LICENSE
All of the content offered for corporate can be licensed on a per-seat, annual basis as individual recorded web seminars. This option is ideal as refresher training for those who have attended a workshop and as initial training for new recruiters, hiring managers and supervisors.
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The Business Case for Having a Military Veteran Recruiting Initiative
Before you can ramp up a military recruiting initiative, you have to be able to make the business case to justify it and to request staffing and budget to support it.
What you will learn:
- The top business reasons to develop a veteran hiring initiative (including diversification of talent, tax credits, compliance requirements, cost reimbursements, etc.)
- Overcoming common hesitations to hiring veterans ("Myths versus truths"), including an overview of the realities of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) in the workplace and support of Guard & Reserve members
- How to include veterans with disabilities, Guard and Reserve, and Military Spouses into the overall program
Sourcing Military Veteran Talent
Have you been going to military career fairs and not finding the talent you seek? Do you suspect there are other ways to find service members, but are having a hard time making sense of all the options? Are there free resources you could be taking advantage of? All these questions and more are answered in this session! What you will learn:
- The timeline for a typical military transition (knowing this can keep your pipelines filled and can offer additional cost savings in terms of relocation and marketing)
- An overview of military-specific sourcing options, including
- Commercial vendors (placement firms/3rd party recruiters, job boards, career fairs)
- Government resources (Departments of Defense, Labor and Veterans Affairs)
- Non-profits and Associations
- Social Media
- Sources for veterans with disabilities, Guard and Reserve and military spouses included
Translating the Military Resume and Interviewing Tips
Just because your HVAC business is in land-locked Tucson, Arizona doesn't mean an "Anti-Submarine Warfare Control System Level II Technician" wouldn't be a great asset to your team. What the heck is an "11B" and what kind of transferrable skills does someone with that Military Occupational Code (MOC) have? Do you know what a "CSM" or an "XO" or a "platoon leader" does in the military? Making sense of "foreign" job titles and cryptic job codes on the typical military resume is hard enough. Trying to determine a service member's transferable skills based on a 5 minute conversation at a crowded job fair is even harder.
This webinar will empower you with tools and techniques to be able to:
- Determine the types of career fields offered through the military and how they correspond with your hiring needs
- Understand the differences between officer and enlisted grades, including levels of responsibility and salary expectations
- Map your hiring needs to military skill sets
- Translate the veteran's Military Occupational Code
- Avoid a lawsuit (also known as "questions you should never ask a veteran during the hiring process")
Recruitment Marketing to Attract the Military
How is your company conducting outreach to attract military veterans to your career opportunities? The secret to reaching this group is through “high touch” tactics. Veterans have different informational needs, and companies that recognize this and find creative ways to provide this information are able to attract the type of military talent they seek. This 90-minute webinar covers proven techniques for attracting military veterans.
What you will learn:
- 5 themes and messages that resonate with military veterans, and how to incorporate them into your marketing materials
- The informational needs of military members in transition, and how to meet those needs through your career web site and / or Facebook
Avoid Being the "Starter Employer" – How To Retain Veterans After You've Hired Them
Are you experiencing a higher-than-expected turnover of your veteran employees? Or, do you already have a military hiring practice already in place, but you are losing your investment because the veterans are not staying long term? Learn how to become more than a "starter employer." Become a longer-term career opportunity.
What you will learn:
- Common frustrations military veterans have with their first employer
- Best practices for integrating military veterans into your organization
- Programs and policies to support veterans serving in the National Guard and Reserves
Hiring Managers: Understanding the Value of Military Veterans to Your Organization and Tips for Interviewing
This session is specifically for those in a position to make the hiring decision. If a company has a military recruiting program, and its recruiters are doing a good job of sourcing veteran talent to interview, it is critical that the hiring manager have a good understanding of the occupational and transferrable skills that military members posses, and be provided with great behavioral-style questions to ask the veteran that will get at the heart of what military members can do for an organization. Hiring managers also need to have their hesitations about hiring military members addressed.
What you will learn:
- Myths versus truths regarding military veterans (i.e., level of education, supervisory experience, PTSD in the workplace, Guard / Reserve mobilizations, etc.)
- Overview of military occupational skills and transferrable skills
- Behavioral-style questions to ask to get at the transferrable skills (if not evident in the resume)
- Avoid a lawsuit: Questions you cannot ask a veteran during the interview process
Supervisors: Tips and Techniques for Helping Military Members Transition to the Civilian Workplace
Now that veterans are starting to stream into the civilian workplace, it is critical that supervisors are prepared for their role in helping those military members make a good assimilation into this new culture. Untrained supervisors can inadvertently hinder a service member's transition through careless thoughts or actions.
What you will learn:
- Common frustrations military veterans have with their first employer and how to mitigate
- How to support the needs of veterans with disabilities (visible and invisible)
- USERRA and the Supervisor: What it means to serve in the Guard / Reserves, requests you may receive and how to support
Veteran ERGs: Deriving Real Business Value from a Veteran Employee Resource Group
While many companies have employee resource groups (ERGs) for women and minority associates, far fewer have them for military veterans. Part of the rational may be due to a belief that veterans are not a true diversity category. The other reason most commonly given is that, beyond social and networking reasons, companies are hard pressed to understand what business value could be derived from establishing and supporting a veteran ERG.
What you will learn: How establishing and cultivating a veteran ERG can reap business value in terms of:
- Talent acquisition and retention
- Sales and market expansion
- Supplier diversification
- Corporate philanthropy and community outreach
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