Veterans Hiring

One of the biggest challenges for people trying to find their way into federal employment has often been, I think, finding a face-to-face point of contact, a real, live person who can help them negotiate the hiring process. Sending your stuff off via USAJobs can feel like throwing a sheet of paper into a vast blizzard of documents: how will you be distinguishable amidst the masses? But for veterans, that process of finding a point of contact just got a lot easier. The Office of Personnel Management has just posted the names, email addresses and phone numbers for the heads of the Veteran Employment Program Offices in the departments and major agencies. If any of you try to contact these folks, let me know if they're responsive. Getting the information out there is a major step. Making sure they're responding quickly and helpfully is even more important.