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Veteran Representative Newsletter
March 2007
Job market talking points
As a Vet Rep, there’s a lot of help and assistance you can provide to your job seeker clients. One of your valued roles is to get good information in the hands of people who need it. Here are some factoids of interest:
- Average hourly earnings in the US in January 2007 are $16.76, which is up 20% from 2000. So the average employee is making more money compared to a few years ago..
- Spending power of consumers is all about low taxes and low inflation. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, after-tax income is up for all levels of income. Inflation, which was 2.5% in 2006, seems to be under control as well, with expectations of 2.0%+ for 2007. So consumers can anticipate more spending power in 2007, if inflation continues at low levels and they get pay increases above the rate of inflation.
- College hires for Spring 2007 are expected to be up 17% versus 2006. Why does this matter? Such hiring activity has a “bottom up” push effect on job creation. If 50-75,000+ more college graduates are hired, that creates hundreds of Supervisory and Manager roles to lead and train the new hires.
Vet job search success
Here is a copy of a letter from a Vet Rep, Larry Woods, Jacksonville office of the NC Employment Security Commission, that shares a wonderful outcome for a Vet:
The veterans section of the N.C. Employment Security Commission's Jacksonville office serves about 2,100 veterans per year. This group of veterans is truly representative of the total population in regard to social-economic status, ethnicity, gender, skill level, education and training, and social need.
It is with great joy that we serve these highly deserving persons, but with heavy hearts when we are unable to directly or indirectly assist them in overcoming their challenges or meet their immediate and future needs…..Recently, we attempted to assist a local Veteran with both blindness and volatile diabetes.
After many attempts to gain assistance through local veterans' organizations and social service agencies, a private company stepped up to the plate to provide direct assistance to this veteran in need.
This letter is to publicly acknowledge the organizations and persons responsible for giving of their professional and personal time to better the quality of life for our local veteran; specifically, Kelley Hamilton, disabled veteran outreach specialist of ESC for facilitating and coordinating the efforts of Donna Kyle, owner-operator, and Mary Parker of the Jacksonville business Merry Maids.
These three individuals assisted our local veteran by cleaning his residence at no charge, improving the safety and health conditions within his residence.
All three deserve special recognition from the veterans of our community for their caring and for unselfishly giving of themselves.
Larry Woods
Jacksonville, NC
Newsletter note: Sometimes its not always about jobs….. Thanks Larry!
Connecting with employers
Job Fairs can be very productive time spent by a job seeker, enabling a person to meet representatives of up to a dozen or more companies in a few hours. But the time is most productive when a job seeker can provide the information essential to the recruiter to determine next steps. Some thoughts:
A company representative sorts resumes into three piles: follow-up, maybe and no interest. To get to the follow-up pile, a job seeker must:
-Do research on the company and know what potential roles they have to offer
-Do a presentation of skills and aptitudes relevant to the potential needs of a company
-Ask what the company is looking for related to the career area of interest
-Close with a statement of genuine interest in the company as a potential employer
Job seekers who seem uninformed or just “shopping” tend to end in the “no interest” resume pile. Coach your job seeker clients for job fairs and help them get to the right pile!
Alliance Partners
We welcome a new alliance partner: Business and Professional Women, an association dedicated to women's issues of career management. Check out their site: www.bpwusa.org and click on the Women Joining Forces for services in support of women Veterans.
We support the following resources in service to job seekers:
- Jobkabob.com: sell your skills, not your work history.
- Career Concepts USA: Job Fair resource
Have a Vet job search success story to share? Send an email to VetRep@workministry.com.
Reminder:
Workministry.com has a growing list of job posts as well as continual improvement in resources for Vet Reps and job seekers. Please make a point of asking your clients to check the site, review the job posts and use the site resources
Editor's Note:
The Veteran Representative newsletter and message board are all about you. Our goal is to create a forum for
sharing information that helps you fulfill your mission. If you have feedback, ideas or suggestions for either the newsletter or the message
board, please send email to: VetRep@workministry.com.
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