CEO Connection Launches First Mid-Market Veteran Job Placement Program
New Program Challenges CEO Connection Members to Hire a Total of 100,000 Veteran Employees to the Mid-Market Workforce by 2020.
Syosset, NY, March 3, 2015 (Newswire.com) - CEO Connection launched “CEO Connection Connecting Veterans to Success,” the first veteran job placement program within the mid-market. CEO Connection, the only membership organization in the world focused exclusively on mid-market chief executive officers, created the job placement program to reduce the unemployment gap of veterans in the civilian workforce. According to a March 2014 report released by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics, the number of unemployed veterans in 2013 reached 722,000. Statistics indicate that veterans still incur a higher unemployment rate than non-veterans.
Connecting Veterans to Success bridges veterans looking for employment to companies committed to supporting America’s service members by providing employment opportunities in the growing mid-market. Employers will utilize a variety of free online resources to translate and match veteran job skills and descriptions to employment opportunities within their own corporations.
"We answered our nation's call to create a program that connects mid-market corporations to unemployed veterans. Our membership is committed to hiring America's heroes who represent dedication, discipline and drive across a variety of industries," said Kenneth Beck, chief executive officer of CEO Connection. "Veterans have a wide breadth of skills, qualities and knowledge to share that can be applied to countless career tracks within our mid-market. Hiring our remarkable service men and women is in the enlightened self interest of mid-market companies who are looking for talent and is a logical solution to closing the veteran unemployment gap. I love it when everybody wins."
Kenneth Beck, Chief Executive Officer of CEO Connection
“We answered our nation’s call to create a program that connects mid-market corporations to unemployed veterans. Our membership is committed to hiring America’s heroes who represent dedication, discipline and drive across a variety of industries,” said Kenneth Beck, chief executive officer of CEO Connection. “Veterans have a wide breadth of skills, qualities and knowledge to share that can be applied to countless career tracks within our mid-market. Hiring our remarkable service men and women is in the enlightened self interest of mid-market companies who are looking for talent and is a logical solution to closing the veteran unemployment gap. I love it when everybody wins.”
CEO Connection maintains a community of more than 12,000 mid-market CEOs and represents corporations with revenue ranging from $100 million to $3 billion. For more information regarding CEO Connection and the Connecting Veterans to Success veteran job placement program please contact jobcreation@ceoconnection.com or visit bit.ly/1MP0Ho4.
About CEO Connection: Designed to facilitate peer relationships, CEO Connection is the only membership organization in the world focused exclusively on mid-market CEOs. It connects thousands of mid-market CEOs with each other and to people, information and resources to which they would otherwise not have access. Members are C-level executives with responsibility for all or significant portions of their respective company. They represent a wide variety of businesses across a broad geographic spectrum. Collectively mid-market companies account for $10 trillion of the $30 trillion annual U.S. private sector gross receipts.
Inspired by C-level Wharton executives, CEO Connection began in 2005 and has evolved into a dynamic community with wide-ranging benefits uniquely designed to help the mid-market CEO and champion the mid-market perspective. It is all about CEOs helping CEOs.