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Veterans’ Employment
and Training Service (VETS)
Department of Labor
Preparing Veterans for Better Jobs
VETS Mission
We provide our veterans with the critical resources,
expertise, and training to assist them in locating and
obtaining meaningful careers.
We protect the employment rights of the men
and women who serve this Nation.
We prepare our separating service members to
transition from the military to the civilian workforce.
We promote the hiring of veterans through outreach
to and partnership with employers.
Employers
Veterans
Transitioning Service
Member (TSM) Routes
Student• GI Bill
• Technical Training
• Registered
Apprenticeships
Employee
• American Job Centers
- Priority of Service
- Gold Card/Intensive
Services
• Vocational Rehabilitation
and Employment (VR&E)
American Job
Center (AJC)
National Labor
Exchange (NLX)
Veteran
Transition
GPS (TAP)
Employer
Entrepreneur• “Boots to Business” (SBA)
“Good Jobs for Veterans”
Pre-Separation Counseling (DoD)
- 12-18 months prior / - 24 months (retirement)
Core Curriculum:
- Resilient Transitions (DoD)
- MOC Crosswalk (DoD)
- Financial Planning (DoD)
- Employment Workshop (DOL)
- Benefits Briefing (VA)
Specialized Tracks
- Career Technical Training (DoD)
- Assessing Higher Education (VA)
- Entrepreneur (SBA)
Capstone
The services, training, tools and support a transitioning service
member needs to meet career readiness standards.
Transition GPS / TAP
Transition Assistance Program
Transition GPS / TAP
DOL Employment Workshop
Consist of 7 main sections:
1. Transition Planning
2. Career Exploration and Validation
3. Job Search Planning
4. Building an Effective Resume
5. Federal Hiring and Federal Resumes
6. Interviewing Skills
7. Post-Interviewing Analysis
Key points:
� Focused on mechanics of getting a job
� 3-days/class size: max 50
� Tangible products:
– Individual Transition Plan
– Skills assessment
– Job search results
– Resume/Cover Letters
� FY 13
– 5,973 workshops
– 187,037 participants
Participant post-assessment survey results indicate that the Employment Workshop is
enhancing transitioning service members’ skills and confidence in their transition planning.
Employment Resources
American Job Centers
Student• GI Bill
• Technical Training
• Registered
Apprenticeships
Employee
• American Job Centers
- Priority of Service
- Gold Card/Intensive
Services
• Vocational Rehabilitation
and Employment (VR&E)
American Job
Center (AJC)
National Labor
Exchange (NLX)
Veteran
Transition
GPS (TAP)
Employer
Entrepreneur• “Boots to Business” (SBA)
“Good Jobs for Veterans”
Serving Veterans & TSMs
American Job Centers
� The Department of Labor has provided millions of veterans & TSMs with the training, assistance and support they need to find and retain good jobs and family-supporting wages.
– In Program Year 2012 alone, the Department of Labor served approximately 18 million participants, including 1.4 million veterans in various programs with strong outcomes.
– During that same year, nearly 500,000 veterans who were unemployed at the time of their program participation found employment within 90 days of program completion.
� Priority of Service – The Jobs for Veterans Act of 2002 required DOL to provide priority of service to veterans and eligible spouses for all employment and training-funded activities.
� Dislocated Workers – Service members with an ETS date may qualify for dislocated worker programs operated by AJCs. This policy increases AJC’s flexibly in serving TSMs and helps ensure services provided match the needs of individual service members.
American Job Centers (AJCs)Jobs for Veterans State Grant (JVSG) Program
DOL’s Veterans’ Employment
& Training Service (VETS)
DOL’s Employment &Training
Administration (ETA)
State Workforce Agencies
Jobs for Veterans State Grant
(JVSG) Program
Wagner-Peyser (WP) Employment
Services and WIA programs
Disabled Veterans’ Outreach Program (DVOP) Specialist
Local Veterans’ Employment
Representative (LVER)WP/WIA Staff
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� Funds are allocated to State Workforce Agencies in direct proportion to the number of veterans seeking employment within their state.
– Disabled Veterans Outreach Program specialists provide intensive services to meet the employment needs of disabled veterans and other eligible veterans with barriers to employment.
– Local Veterans' Employment Representatives conduct outreach to employers to increase employment opportunities for veterans.
� Most DVOPs and LVERs are located in AJCs and function within guidance provided by the Veterans Employment and Training Service.
American Job Center
Partners
� Adult, Dislocated Worker,
and Youth Activities under
WIA
� Wagner-Peyser
Employment Service
� Trade Adjustment
Assistance
� Veterans Employment and
Training Programs
� Unemployment Insurance
� Job Corps
� YouthBuild
� Senior Community Service
Employment Program
� Migrant and Seasonal
Farmworkers Employment and
Training Programs
� Native American Employment
and Training Programs
� Vocational Rehabilitation
� Adult Education and Literacy
� Postsecondary Vocational
Education
� Community Services Block
Grant
American Job Center
Job Seeker Services
� Determination of eligibility for WIA and other services
� Outreach, intake and orientation
� Initial assessment of skills, abilities, aptitudes and service needs
� Job search and placement assistance
� Provision of workforce information
� Job placement follow-up
� Comprehensive and specialized assessments of skills and service needs
� Development of individual employment plans
� Employment counseling and career planning
� Case management
� Prevocational or pre-training short-term skill development services
� Occupational skills training
� Skill upgrading and retraining
� On-the-job training
� Workplace training combined with related instruction
� Entrepreneurial training
� Job readiness training
� Adult education and literacy
Intensive ServicesCore Services Training Services
� Veterans receive priority of service at all Department of Labor employment and job-training programs, including American Job Centers (AJCs)
� Post-9/11 Era Veterans are eligible to receive Gold Card services (6 months)
� Homeless Veterans Reintegration Program (HVRP)• Provides job training, counseling, and placement services to expedite
the reintegration of homeless veterans into the labor force• In FY14, $38.1M for 155 HVRP grants• DOL is utilizing an online grant review process
� Homeless Female Veterans and Veterans with Families Program
(HFVVWF)
• Grantees provide supportive services to eligible homeless female veterans and homeless veterans with families
• In FY14, $4.9M for 22 HFVVWF grants
� Incarcerated Veterans Transition Program (IVTP)
• Sunset on September 30, 2013. • In PY13, $824K for 14 IVTP grants
� Stand-Down Grants
• In FY14, $600K for 85 Stand Downs
DOL VETS’
Competitive Grants
� Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment
Rights Act (USERRA)
• VETS enforces U.S. veterans’ re-employment rights to return to civilian employment once tour of duty concludes
• Functional integration between VETS, SOL, DOJ, and OSC that requires extensive employment law expertise
• VOW Act expands USERRA enforcement to include hostile work environment to U.S. Veterans
� Veteran’s Preference in Federal Employment
• VETS protects veterans’ rights by investigating and attempting to resolve Veterans’ Preference complaints
� VETS 100 Collaboration Between VETS & OFCCP
• Requires contractors to submit annual data on U.S. Veteran hiring
Protecting Service Members’
Employment Rights
Connecting Employers
with Veterans
Student• GI Bill
• Technical Training
• Registered
Apprenticeships
Employee
• American Job Centers
- Priority of Service
- Gold Card/Intensive
Services
• Vocational Rehabilitation
and Employment (VR&E)
American Job
Center (AJC)
National Labor
Exchange (NLX)
Veteran
Transition
GPS (TAP)
Employer
Entrepreneur• “Boots to Business” (SBA)
“Good Jobs for Veterans”
American Job Center
Employer Services
� Workforce information
� Job description writing
� Posting of job openings
� Reviewing applicants’ resumes
� Organizing job fairs
� Skill upgrading and career ladders
� Places to conduct interviews
� Pre-screening of job applicants
� Assessment of applicants’ skills
� Referral of job-ready candidates
Veterans’ Employment Center
Veterans’ Employment Center
TSMs/Veterans
Skills
Translator
Career
Assessment
Resume
Writer
Employers
Veterans
Job Bank
www.ebenefits.va.gov/ebenefits/jobs
VETS Priorities
� Increasing employment opportunities for Transitioning Service Members (TSMs) and veterans.• Introducing employers to the American Job Center (AJC) network;
• Increasing apprenticeship opportunities for TSMs and veterans;
• Improving access to skills training; and
• Simplifying use of education benefits for job-driven training for TSMs and veterans.
� Increasing use of AJC support by TSMs and veterans, with special focus on women and Native American veterans on tribal lands.
� Refocusing of roles/responsibilities of AJC staff for veterans.
� Priorities• Increase awareness of existing services• Most common findings to date:
� Lack of awareness of employment services� Overlap of challenges � Need for individual approach (one size does not fit all)
• Opportunity to help her right now
� Things in motion• Engagement
� Partnerships to “meet her where she is”� Increase awareness of existing services� Ensure women veterans are represented among both populations
• Analysis (behind the scenes)� Unemployment rates and trends
• Literature Review – WB• Evaluation of Economic and Employment Characteristics – ASP
� Where we need help• Increase awareness of existing services• Ensure inclusion among both populations• Quality research
Special Veterans’ Populations
Women Veterans
� Priorities• Outreach to federal/state agencies, the Native American
(NA) community and other stakeholders to improve employment services and opportunities for NA veterans living on tribal lands, Alaskan villages, and Native Hawaiian Homelands.
� Things in motion• Conducting research to determine demographics and
baseline data; and• Developing a written strategy to increase employment
outreach to NA veterans.
� Where we need help• Analysis of legal and policy challenges for strategy
development.
Special Veterans’ Populations
Native American Veterans
Phone: 202-693-4700
Veterans Electronic Tools:
DOL VETS: www.dol.gov/vets
American Job Center (AJC) Locator : www.servicelocator.org
Employment Center: www.ebenefits.va.gov/ebenefits/jobs
My Next Move for Veterans: www.mynextmove.org/vets
My Skills My Future: www.myskillsmyfuture.org
Career One Stop: www.careeronestop.org
America’s Heroes at Work: www.americasheroesatwork.gov
DOL VETS
Contact / Electronic Tools