Veterans Employment Program (DRAFT)

Introduction

“People are not your most important asset. The right people are.”

This is the premise on which every facet of the VetPortfolio program is directed. Those with military service are a major source of skilled and semi-skilled labor for this nation. The military emphasizes experience and proven performance. Veterans are skilled at devising well-reasoned, on-the-spot solutions for rapidly evolving problems.  VetPortfolio highlights a veteran’s skills and potential in a uniquely different way.  Using a standardized, tightly controlled, and systematic ePortfolio approach, our product has been designed to expedite employer searches for that special veteran they need and to get highly qualified veterans that needed interview opportunity.

 Veteran: How to Begin

The program is oriented on the blue collar and first-level supervisor side of industry and selling the skills that veterans, upon active-duty separation, already have.  VetPortfolio allows you to market yourself “as-is” using a uniform, searchable E-Portfolio concept.  It is clean and simple – attempting to avoid common missteps in getting you to that all-important, first interview.  If interested:

  1. The process for you is as follows: contact us at the website to generate an email request. An Honorable or General discharge is mandatory; and you are ultimately expected to reside in the Lehigh Valley region.
  2. You will then be connected to a coach to help you properly register, post and maintain your application on the website, https://www.vetportfolio.org.
  3. An interested employer will then contact you to interview you.

Employer: How to Access “the Best of the Best” 

We can connect your business to Honorable or General discharged veterans with skills who are willing to work in the Greater Lehigh Valley. Our program is oriented on the blue collar and first-level supervisor workforce.  It emphasizes experience and proven performance.  Veterans are vetted on job qualifications, educational backgrounds, and creativity. 

VetPortfolio’s goal is to be an initial networking for connecting Veterans with businesses which proactively want to support veterans through hiring them and that can utilize the advanced skills that Veterans have from their service training.

A Recruiting Committee consisting of several members experienced in professional recruitment culls and vets each applicant before posting an E-Portfolio profile. The committee evaluates applying veterans on job qualifications, educational background, and other key factors.

If interested: 

  1. The process for you is as follows: Contact us using our specially designed website to generate a email request to get access to our website and the customized tools it contains.
  2. An LVMAC employment committee member will contact you with guidance and to set up access to the website.
  3. Inform us of any special filters (categories) that you need to use the system.
  4. Once the potential veteran employee is identified through the VetPortfolio filtering process, the rest of the process is up to whomever manages your hiring when contacting the applicant to directly to schedule an interview. 

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