Issue 13:02, Wednesday, February 1, 2012
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This issue sponsored by TECHEXPO Top Secret, CRI University and The Herman Group
Contents:
1. Message from the Top
2. 2012 WEDDLEs User’s Choice Award Recipients
3. VetJobs Presenting Virtual Career Fairs
4. VETFORCE CVE Verification Survey
5. SHRM Launches Internet News Program
6. National Guard (in Federal Status) and Reserve Activated as of January 31, 2012
7. Significant Events this Month in Military History
Thank you for reading the VetJobs Early Eagle employer newsletter. If you like this newsletter and what VetJobs and the VFW do to assist veterans and their family member find employment, please go to http://www.weddles.com/poll.htm and vote VetJobs for the WEDDLE’s User’s Choice Award!
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1. Message from the Top
Great news! For the ninth year in a row you have voted VetJobs to the WEDDLE’s User’s Choice Award (www.weddles.com)! Of the nine years this prestigious award in the internet world has been in existence, VetJobs is one of only four employment sites that have been voted in all nine years! The other three are CareerBuilder.com, Monster.com and DICE.com. Heady company for a niche site like VetJobs!
This award marks VetJobs as one of the top 30 job boards out of over 200,000 career sites on the Internet. Your votes have confirmed once again that VetJobs is the leading military related job board and one of the top career sites on the Internet! The staff of VetJobs wants to personally thank all of you who voted. We appreciate your support and will continue to work hard to earn your votes again for the 2013 WEDDLE’s User’s Choice Award.
See article 2 below for the thirty recipients of the 2012 WEDDLE’s User’s Choice Award. I congratulate the other three sites that have been selected all nine years along with VetJobs as they are the cream of the employment web sites on the Internet.
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As we move into 2012, VetJobs is expanding its services and adding four Virtual Career Fairs. Our first Virtual Career Fair will be March 1 through 15. For more information, see article 3 below.
VetJobs will additionally be conducting some brick and mortar career fairs. One will be at the VFW National Convention, Reno, NV, in July. We will be sending out more information in March.
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We celebrate several holidays in February:
February 2, marks the 111th anniversary of the inception of the Army Nurse Corps. If you meet an Army nurse, tell them Happy Birthday!
February 12 is Lincoln’s birthday.
February 14, we celebrate Valentine’s Day! Be sure to remember your special person.
On February 20 the country celebrates President’s Day. The original purpose of President’s Day was to honor Washington and Lincoln, but it is now the day we honor all of the presidents who have served these great United States.
February 22 is Ash Wednesday.
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On the economic front, indicators continue to be mixed, but the outlook for jobs in 2012 is slowly starting to improve, but not nearly fast enough. I find it interesting that there are growing reports questioning the unemployment reports. This is to be expected during an election year. But whether the unemployment rate is 8.5% or 10.0% (as claimed by some), the real issue is America needs incentives and a more favorable business climate to encourage employers to start hiring again!
On the plus side:
-December payroll jobs were up in 239 of the 372 metro areas
-A final reading on consumer sentiment for the month of January checked in at 75, higher than both a preliminary reading of 74 and an expected reading of 74.1, according to a survey by Thomson Reuters and the University of Michigan. The index is at its highest level since February 2011
-December leading economic indicators up 0.4%; seven components make positive contributions
-Orders for long-lasting goods climbed 3% in December from November, topping estimates of a 2% gain. Excluding the transportation segment, orders rose 2.1%, beating estimates of a 0.7% gain and marking the biggest month-to-month jump since March 2011.
On the negative side:
-December jobless rates down over the year in 329 of 372 metro areas
-The ADP National Employment Report shows the private sector added 170,000 jobs in January, fewer than the 185,000 anticipated.
-The December employment figures were revised down to 292,000 private sector jobs added from an initially reported 325,000.
-Fitch sliced the credit rating of Italy, Spain and three other eurozone countries on Friday. The ratings company affirmed Ireland’s rating and said its outlook is negative for all six sovereigns.
-A preliminary reading on U.S. gross domestic product for the fourth quarter showed the economy expanded at an annualized rate of 2.8%, up from 1.8% in the third quarter but slightly under estimates of 3%. The jump was the biggest since the second quarter of 2010.
-Sales of new U.S. single-family homes fell 2.2% in December to a 307,000-unit annualized rate. Economists had been expecting sales to climb to an annualized rate of 320,000. This was the first sales decline since August 2011 and the largest drop since July 2011.
The good news is that unemployment for all veterans in December fell to 7.7% (CPS). But the unemployment rate for the 18 to 24 year old veteran, a large number of who were in the National Guard and Reserve is at 31%. There were 74,000 unemployed veterans in that age group per the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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CORRECTION: Last month I stated: Welcome to 2012! Starting at midnight December 31, 2011, you have 525,600 minutes to spend in 2012. Seems I was wrong. Jim Hutcheson caught the error and pointed out that this is a leap year, so there is one extra day in February! Fortunately this error is only made once every four years. Thanks for catching it, Jim!
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As always, if there is anything we at VetJobs can do for you, please do not hesitate to call or email.
Remember, Freedom Is Never Free – Support Our Armed Forces and Veterans
Best regards,
Ted Daywalt
President
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2. 2012 WEDDLEs User’s Choice Award Recipients
For nine years recruiters and candidates have been able to vote for those Internet employment sites they think are the best of the Internet. This award is the pinnacle of achievement for an internet site as the award is vetted by the users! VetJobs congratulates these awardees as they are the best of the best!
Absolutely Health Care
AfterCollege.com
AHACareerCenter.org
AllHealthcareJobs.com
Career Network
CareerBuilder.com
Climber.com
CollegeRecruiter.com
CoolWorks.com
Dice.com
EHSCareers.com
EmploymentGuide.com
FlexJobs.com
Hcareers.com
HealthCareerWeb.com
HEALTHeCAREERS Network
HigherEdJobs.com
HospitalDreamJobs.com
Indeed.com
Job.com
Jobing.com
JobsinLogistics.com
Military.com
MilitaryHire.com
Monster.com
National Healthcare
Net-Temps
SimplyHired.com
SnagAJob.com
TopUSAJobs.com
VetJobs.com
/—February Early Eagle sponsor is CRI University—\
CRI University provides informative and dynamic one-hour webinars and recorded educational sessions on important HR topics that impact every employer who employs fifteen or more people. CRI University topics are offered both live and as recorded sessions for registrants who choose to view the materials and listen to the recording at their leisure.
These webinars and educational sessions are as important to CEOs, COOs, and CFOs as they are for HR personnel due to the myriad of changes in employment laws, regulations, discrimination findings and court case findings in 2009 and thus far in 2011.
February webinar is:
EEOC and OFCCP Compliance
Thursday, February 09, 2012, 11:00 AM Central Time
Understanding the Achiever in the Selection and Development process.
Friday, February 10, 2012, 11:00 AM Central Time
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3. VetJobs Presenting Virtual Career Fairs
VetJobs is pleased to announce a series of Virtual Career Fairs. These VeteransCONNECT events will be sponsored by VetJobs and PSI, the premier Diversity Job Fair Producer.
The first event will be March 1-15. Early employer registration is now open and employer loading will start February 15th. Candidate loading will begin March 1st. We are anticipating 25-30 employers and a population goal of 2,000 Veterans.
This event is being promoted through banner advertising on VetJobs (average 90,000 impressions a month), E-mail newsletter (reach of 500,000 readers a month), e-mail blast to VetJobs resume database, announcements to TAP/ACAP offices worldwide, national Radio promotion , FaceBook promotion, PSI and VetJobs sales activity and PSI Diversity database.
Early registration is taking place NOW. To register or request additional information, please contact VetJobs at 877-838-5627 or send a request to info@vetjobs.com and we will forward you an electronic flyer for the virtual career fair.
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4. VETFORCE CVE Verification Survey
VET Force has been working with the veteran community, executive branch and legislative branch personnel to demystify and simplify VA’s verification process. Much of the information presented and discussed to date has been anecdotal. This survey is intended to provide quantitative feedback to help the VET Force to recommend policy, standards, process, statutory and regulatory changes that veteran business owners feel will improve VA’s verification program. If you are a veteran owned business, please participate at https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/N53V9V3
5. SHRM Launches Internet News Program
The Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) has debuted “Focus on HR,” a biweekly, 10-minute online news program showcasing the latest news and information in business, HR and SHRM. Veteran CNN correspondent Kathleen Koch hosts the program. For more information, visit http://www.shrm.org/about/news/Pages/InternetNews.aspx
6. National Guard (in Federal Status) and Reserve Activated as of January 31, 2012
This week the Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard announced a decrease in activated reservists while the Army and Air Force announced an increase. The net collective result is 1,393 more reservists activated than last week. At any given time, services may activate some units and individuals while deactivating others, making it possible for these figures to either increase or decrease. The total number currently on active duty from the Army National Guard and Army Reserve is 54,536; Navy Reserve, 4,518; Air National Guard and Air Force Reserve, 9,438; Marine Corps Reserve, 5,224, and the Coast Guard Reserve, 763. This brings the total National Guard and Reserve personnel who have been activated to 74,479, including both units and individual augmentees. A cumulative roster of all National Guard and Reserve personnel who are currently activated may be found on line at http://www.defense.gov/news/d20120131ngr.pdf .
7. Significant Events this Month in Military History
1763 – Treaty of Paris ended the Seven Years War in Europe
1778 – The American frigate Ranger carried the Stars and Stripes to a foreign port for the first time as it arrived in France
1795 – Navy Supply Corps established
1813 – The American ship USS Hornet sank the British sloop HMS Peacock in an action off the coast of Guiana (north coast of South America) during the war of 1812
1836 – Mexican General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna began his siege of the Alamo Spanish mission in San Antonio, Texas.
1863 – General Joseph Hooker organized the Army of the Potomac
1863 – The Confederate ship Nashville was destroyed by the Union ironclad vessel USS Montauk on the Ogeechee River in Georgia during the American Civil War
1865 – The battle of Petersburg (American Civil War)
1898 – The battleship USS Maine was sunk following an explosion in the harbor of Havana, Cuba.
1901 – Army Nurse Corps is established.
1916 – The German Fleet was given orders to attack armed Allied merchant ships without warning during WWI.
1916 – Beginning of the battle of Verdun, in France, which lasted ten months (WW I)
1917 – British intelligence intercepted the “Zimmerman telegram,” sent to the Mexican government by the German foreign minister, promising Mexico that the lands taken from it by the U.S. during the 1846-1848 war would be returned if Mexico entered World War I on Germany’s side and the Germans won. The message was promptly relayed to the U.S. Government
1942 – A Japanese submarine surfaced off the coast of California, shelling the coastline near the town of Ellwood.
1943 – Women’s Marine Corps Auxiliary established.
1943 – The German Afrika Korps defeated American forces during the battle of Kasserine Pass, in Tunisia (WW II)
1944 – Beginning of the German Army offensive against the Anzio bridgehead in Italy (WW II)
1944 – U.S. Marines seized Parry Island from Japanese forces, completing their takeover of the Marshall Islands in the Central Pacific (WW II)
1945 – U.S. Marines began the invasion of Iwo Jima in the Western Pacific (WW II)
1966 – Operation White Wing, a search and destroy mission during the Vietnam War.
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