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Site SearchJacksonville, N.C. — North Carolina's governor is encouraging businesses to hire veterans and military spouses.
At a Veterans Day ceremony in Jacksonville Wednesday, Gov. Beverly Perdue announced a new "I Hire Military" campaign as part of her JobsNOW initiative to help strengthen the economy.
“The close relationship between the civilians and the military is one of the biggest reasons I’m proud to call North Carolina home,” Perdue said in a statement. “The ‘I Hire Military’ campaign is one more example of how North Carolina is the most military-friendly state in the nation.”
Businesses who want to participate must register with the state and pledge to hire veterans or military spouses whenever practical.
The campaign began as a partnership between the North Carolina Military Business Center and the Eastern Carolina Workforce Development Board. The campaign is running in four counties – Onslow, Carteret, Craven and Wayne– and will soon expand statewide.
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I think that many of the veterans are better qualified when it comes to actually getting the job done than some of those who have sat in their chairs pushing buttons. Me included.
However, it is when we start killing businesses when we put a square peg into a round hole when it comes to vet's that I get upset with. The Unemployment Security Commission does this and then wonders why Vets don't do well.
They have to have the skills or at least be in the field that you are putting them, in order for it to work. You can stick a maintenance guy as a lathe operator, but you can't put an artillery guy in for a model maker.
November 12, 2009 11:35 a.m.
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November 11, 2009 6:21 p.m.
She might want to LEAD BY EXAMPLE! How many of her staff are veterans? (my bet is NONE) How about all those cushie "Commissioner" positions SHE APPOINTS...how many of her appointees are veterans? What about the UNC Board of Governors...how many of them are veterans?
Holy cow...the State's HR Department doesn't even bother to calculate in a veteran's preference (they give it lip service on the State Application but they don't actually calculate or count it).
November 11, 2009 6:18 p.m.