All military veterans have skills that nonmiltary personnel do not. Miltary veterans have Management skills that they get at a young age where as the private sector take years to obtain. Military veterans also have accute atteneion to detail, and problem solving skills that the private sector has ignored. I’m a Navy Veteran of 12 years of service, and I use my problem solving & management skills all the time. I currently work for a regional insurance company, and I have small staff with a can do spirt. I have applied my military training to my staff, and everything that I do for Administration. The Industry should seek out the military veterans skills, and adapt thier skills to insurance. Military veterans know how to adapt to different environments.
I applaud the Insurance Industry for taking a look at the military and recroit them for jobs. With some training by the company, they make very good employees because they are clean cut, have discipline, a strong work ethic and a sense of doing the right thing. Employers, who would you rather hire, a military veteran or an OWS refugee? The OWS crowd wants a hand out, does not want to work for a living and only knows how to download an app. They also don’t believe in personal hygiene. It is not a hard choice to make.
NG, have you been on a world cruise for about a year? You haven’t heard about Occupy Wall Street (OWS)? These are the great unwashed semi hippy crowd protesting in several cities who are hygiene challenged and have an intense desire to get all those benefits they think they are owed. Of course, they were funded by the unions and other thugs while they were making a big mess.
Many federal programs have provided assistants in recent years; some
have been applauded some criticized.
Are there any programs or incentives, for companies or agencies
to provide worthwhile mentoring programs, grants if you will, where
the mentors have been veterans themselves and are willing to help
those new hires learn the business? If not there could be opportunity for those agencies or personnel to provide the guidance of actual “on the job training” to ensure the objectives in the transition of the talent available.
EAB
Andrew-Thanks for the feel good article. Now let’s get back to reality. All of the companies you mentioned have been shedding jobs for years, so where are these jobs coming from? It will not be from retirement. Our workforce will continue to get older & cannot retire because pensions, 401K’s, savings are under severe pressure,so the trend is working till your past 65. Even when retirement comes, these are the first jobs eliminated by these companies as they are the highly paid positions.
All of our industry, has been cutting training & mentoring programs as part of expense control, so the programs mentioned are likely to be short lived.
Veteran, the direction of our industry along with many other industries depends on whether we get our economy back on track or whether it continues the slide under Progressive leadership. They do everything they can to cripple this economy, kill jobs and control with regulations. Many companies, agencies have cut staff because they fear what is on the horizen. If we get fiscal responsibility back, cut taxes and get the economy moving, we will have hiring going on everywhere. All we need is leadership at the top and we haven’t had it for some time. Romney and the Republicans have a big job dismantling the Federal Bureaucracy and bringing sanity back and most importantly Capitalism which is the engine of growth.
All military veterans have skills that nonmiltary personnel do not. Miltary veterans have Management skills that they get at a young age where as the private sector take years to obtain. Military veterans also have accute atteneion to detail, and problem solving skills that the private sector has ignored. I’m a Navy Veteran of 12 years of service, and I use my problem solving & management skills all the time. I currently work for a regional insurance company, and I have small staff with a can do spirt. I have applied my military training to my staff, and everything that I do for Administration. The Industry should seek out the military veterans skills, and adapt thier skills to insurance. Military veterans know how to adapt to different environments.
I applaud the Insurance Industry for taking a look at the military and recroit them for jobs. With some training by the company, they make very good employees because they are clean cut, have discipline, a strong work ethic and a sense of doing the right thing. Employers, who would you rather hire, a military veteran or an OWS refugee? The OWS crowd wants a hand out, does not want to work for a living and only knows how to download an app. They also don’t believe in personal hygiene. It is not a hard choice to make.
What is OWS?
NG, have you been on a world cruise for about a year? You haven’t heard about Occupy Wall Street (OWS)? These are the great unwashed semi hippy crowd protesting in several cities who are hygiene challenged and have an intense desire to get all those benefits they think they are owed. Of course, they were funded by the unions and other thugs while they were making a big mess.
Many federal programs have provided assistants in recent years; some
have been applauded some criticized.
Are there any programs or incentives, for companies or agencies
to provide worthwhile mentoring programs, grants if you will, where
the mentors have been veterans themselves and are willing to help
those new hires learn the business? If not there could be opportunity for those agencies or personnel to provide the guidance of actual “on the job training” to ensure the objectives in the transition of the talent available.
EAB
Andrew-Thanks for the feel good article. Now let’s get back to reality. All of the companies you mentioned have been shedding jobs for years, so where are these jobs coming from? It will not be from retirement. Our workforce will continue to get older & cannot retire because pensions, 401K’s, savings are under severe pressure,so the trend is working till your past 65. Even when retirement comes, these are the first jobs eliminated by these companies as they are the highly paid positions.
All of our industry, has been cutting training & mentoring programs as part of expense control, so the programs mentioned are likely to be short lived.
Veteran, the direction of our industry along with many other industries depends on whether we get our economy back on track or whether it continues the slide under Progressive leadership. They do everything they can to cripple this economy, kill jobs and control with regulations. Many companies, agencies have cut staff because they fear what is on the horizen. If we get fiscal responsibility back, cut taxes and get the economy moving, we will have hiring going on everywhere. All we need is leadership at the top and we haven’t had it for some time. Romney and the Republicans have a big job dismantling the Federal Bureaucracy and bringing sanity back and most importantly Capitalism which is the engine of growth.