Veterans bring mission focus, leadership, and transferable skills that strengthen culture and performance. This guide shows how to source veteran talent, translate military experience into your roles, and remove barriers with practical steps such as SkillBridge partnerships, clear job language, interview adjustments, and recognition programs. Just in time for Veterans' Day, I'm proud to share a few tips to diversify your talent pool and attract and hire veterans and active military personnel. As a Certified Military Veteran Recruiter, here are a few areas of guidance I often share with my clients that may be helpful in your business.

Covid-19 has shown us just how amazing people can be.

The McNamara-O’Hara Service Contract Act is governed by the U.S. Department of Labor and applies to contractors and subcontractors performing work on certain contracts with the Government. In my experience, I have worked with clients who have experienced difficulties understanding Service Contract Act employee exemptions.

There are two things that most employers wish they could forget about right now: Covid-19; and the US Presidential election.

Full-cycle recruiting can be tricky and time-consuming process, and it can be difficult to find the right talent for the right job with the candidate market in the Greater Washington, DC region. In our federal contracting hub here in the DC area, businesses are often required to recruit for a position that doesn’t even exist. Now, that is a true challenge and often why our clients will bring us in to help!

One of the keys to a successful recruitment strategy is to ensure you attract diverse talent. Diversity recruiting is the practice of hiring candidates using a process that is free from biases for or against any individual or group of candidates. Diversity can come in many forms including but not limited to: ableism, gender, sexual orientation, age, religion, socio-economic status, race and ethnicity.