Bill can Help!

Here's a couple of examples how:
A 62 year old veteran R. F. is a dislocated worker laid off from Tyco (thru Manpower Staffing) where he was employed for about a year as a Shipper/Receiver. He is a retired Air Force veteran with over 23 years of service. The veteran was referred by DVOP (Bill Moore) for VA Compensation and Vocational Rehabilitation and will begin Vocational Rehabilitation on 1/20/2005 and was enrolled in Mount Wachusett Community College's degree program in Computer Web Graphics and Web Design. He was granted a 50% service connected disability in Sept. 04 with the assistance of DVOP, received another 50% payment for Combat Related Benefits, receives Retirement Pay from the Air Force and will be eligible for Social security in 3 years while working towards his new career.

I would like to say a special thank you to Bill Moore of the NCCC.
My husband has been out of the service since 1968 and has not known of
Any benefits that may have been available to him. When I started working at the NCCC, I met Bill and over the course of time found someone who knew what he was doing and someone my husband would (and did) talk to.
Thanks to Bill, my husband is getting benefits that I'm sure he would
Have gotten years ago if we had only know about them. He is even
Considering going back to school!
Please pass our thanks to Bill and his boss.

Alice Daby

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Vet helps other vets find work

His skills in demand at area career center

By Andi Esposito
BUSINESS EDITOR

LEOMINSTER- Bill Moore is looking for a few good jobs.

A former airman first class with the U.S. Air Force, who was disabled during service, Mr. Moore is a disabled veteran’s outreach program specialist at the Career Center of North Central Massachusetts.

He helps veterans find work.

Since Jan. 1, he and colleague Jim Chamberlain have placed 28 veterans in jobs, including four disabled veterans. They have case files open on about 100 others looking for employment or getting ready for a job search by tidying up their resumes, upgrading skills or overcoming other obstacles with assistance from the state and other organizations.

War and recession have boosted the demand for Mr. Moore's help. He has been contacted by veterans who have recently left the military, National Guard and Reserves; those who have lost jobs in the downsizing of the state's technology sector, many of them Vietnam-era veterans, and older veterans looking to boost retirement income.

Mr. Moore, 46, and other veterans' employment specialists with the state Division of Unemployment Assistance, help veterans organize job searches, write resumes and learn interview techniques.

Other services include counseling, testing and training.

Mr. Moore also works with disabled veterans and veteran’s organizations, linking candidates with job opportunities and training. If disabled veterans need a work-related aid or device or other assistance to improve their employability, he'll help find it.

"The message has gotten out: Help is here," he said.

The other side of the equation is the job listings and the marketing of candidates to employers that may not be aware of what veterans bring to the table. Even with the military's higher visibility, said Mr. Moore, "because of the economic climate, it is difficult to determine if employers are more receptive to hiring veterans than they were in the past."

Mr. Moore calls on, sends e-mails and writes to companies touting the veteran. "Returning veterans and veterans in general have a lot to offer a company," he said. "They are dependable, trustworthy and willing to work. They are disciplined but flexible - change is a constant in the military and they go with it. They also have a lot of initiative."

Most have been in positions where they've been responsible and accountable for valuable assets, and many have acquired leadership skills along with technical training and experience, said Mr. Moore, who was a crash rescue firefighter in the Air Force. "Often their decision-making has been tested and honed in extremely difficult conditions, under pressure," he said.

Mr. Moore's latest initiative is a March 18 workshop - now filled - to help veterans seek jobs with the federal government - the nation's leader in veterans' employment. In a report released in January for fiscal 2002, the Office of Personnel Management said new veteran hires by the government rose 19.2 percent over 2001. Veterans account for one-quarter of the federal work force, compared to about 10 percent of the civilian work force.

The Department of Defense employs half of all veterans in federal service.

But Mr. Moore said even though veterans get preference for federal jobs, the process "is daunting. That is one system that needs to be streamlined. I would give up myself if I had to apply."

In the private sector, demand is strong, particularly from defense contractors, for veterans with active security clearances, said former Marine Corps captain Drew Meyers, president of Recruit Military LLC, an Ohio-based military-to-civilian recruiting firm whose services are free to veterans.

As companies win homeland defense contracts, even administrative jobs now require high-level security clearance, he said.

Junior officers - lieutenants and captains with bachelor's degrees from an academy or ROTC program - have little trouble finding jobs, said Mr. Meyers. Strong leadership and management skills make them especially marketable. But they account for only 12 percent to 15 percent of the 225,000 people who transition each year from military to civilian life.

What about the rest? Most are deployed up until their separation, leaving little time to prepare for a job search, he said. They may lack knowledge of networking, use of the Internet for job searches and how to translate their skills to a resume. Yet "these people, compared with their civilian peers, have a strong work ethic, leadership skills and realistic expectations that they have to perform to be promoted," said Mr. Meyers.

Companies headed by Vietnam-era veterans recognize the talent pool. Getting other businesses to do so is the challenge, he said.

"It is absolutely true that companies want to be more patriotic and recognize (hiring a veteran) is a good thing to do," said Mr. Meyers. "If we can translate what a military person can do for a company, then we are seeing more enthusiasm than a year or two ago."

Carol-Ann Baker, human resource manager at PolyCarbon Industries Inc. in Devens, hired a veteran two weeks ago for an accounting position. The candidate was referred to the company by Mr. Moore. PolyCarbon, which makes active pharmaceutical ingredients and specialty chemicals, has two other veterans on its 40-employee work force, she said. Attractive in such candidates, she said, is the discipline and maturity that comes with military experience.

Were the need to arise, Ms. Baker said she would jump at the opportunity to hire another veteran through Mr. Moore. "I would do it in a heartbeat again, because of the quality of the people. After you sift through all the people who are serious and not serious, there are people out there who may be a little but older, who have fallen into the cracks a bit, and Bill makes sure they can get out there and use their skills."

More jobs is what Mr. Moore needs right now. "Because they want to work," he said.

GI Bill Web Site
http://www.gibill.va.gov

DoD Voluntary Education Centers
http://www.voled.doded.mil

Air Force Crosswords
http://www.afcrossroads.com

U.S. Department of Labor
http://www.umet-vets.dol.gov

Veterans Upward Bound Program
http://www.veterans-ub.umb.edu

this is VIETNOW
http://www.vietnow.com

Home Buying Assistance
mailto:richg@propertypromotions.net

American Legion
http://www.legion.org

House Armed Services Committee
http://www.house.gov/hasc

FRA/ Fleet Reserve Association
http://www.fra.org

The Retired Enlisted Association
http://www.trea.org

Marine Corps Association
http://www.mca-marines.org

Navy League of the United States
http://www.navyleague.org

Vietnam Veterans of America
http://www.vva.org

PDHealth.mil
http://www.pdhealth.mil

The Official site of the Veterans of
Foreign Wars of The United States
http://www.vfw.org

Military Wives
mailto:webmaster@militarywives.com
http://www.militarywives.com

U.S. Army HOOAH for Heath
http://www.hooah4health.com

NESHV/ New England Shelter
for Homeless Veterans
http://www.neshv.org

DAV/Disabled American Veterans "Join the DAV"
http://www.dav.org

Vail Armed Forces
http://www.vailarmedforces.com/index.cfm

Clark University
http://www.clarku.edu

Massachusetts Veterans Inc.
http://www.massveterans.org

Mass.gov
http://www.state.ma.us

Boston Job Bank
http://www.bostonjobs.com

BAV/Blinded Veterans Association
http://www.bva.org

Marine for Life
http://www.m4l.usmc.mil/portal/server.pt

MOPH/ Military Order of the Purple Heart
http://www.purpleheart.org

AMRA/ American Military Retirees Association
http://www.amra1973.org

Defense Prisoner of War/Missing Personal Office
http://www.dtic.mil/dpmo

MILSpouse/ Military Spouse Employment
http://www.milspouse.org

U.S. Department of Defense Military Health System
http://www.tricare.osd.mil

EANGUS/ The Enlisted Association
of the National Guard of the United States
http://www.eangus.org

Deployment Link
Department of Defense Health Support
http://deploymentlink.osd.mil