Career Connectors

Job Seeker Resources

The resources below are curated by HOH Career Connectors and updated regularly to help improve your job search.

Hiring Our Heroes
VetJobs

VetJobs offers free job placement assistance to veterans, transitioning service members, and military spouses.

Tips from Marine Corps CSM (Ret.) Ron Green

Military to Civilian Resume
Military to Civilian Transition Lost in Translation
Introductions

HOH Job Board

Search open positions offered by 100+ employers on the Hiring Our Heroes Job Board.

LinkedIn & LinkedIn Learning

Explore LinkedIn Learning’s library of classes for professional development. (Premium account required, offered free to service members, veterans and military spouses/caregivers for 1 year.)

Tips from Marine Corps CSM (Ret.) Ron Green

LinkedIn & Networking
The Handshake

American Corporate Partners (ACP)

ACP is a personalized career mentorship program that handpicks a mentor based on your career interests and professional history.

COMMIT Foundation

COMMIT helps America’s top tier service members and veterans find their purpose transitioning from the military to professional civilian life.

FourBlock

FourBlock helps transitioning service members create a professional network.

The Honor Foundation (For U.S. Special Operations Only)

The Honor Foundation provides professional development to prepare for the transition to the professional civilian workforce.

Rosie Network (Veterans and military spouses):

The Rosie Network is a premier training program in entrepreneurship and small business management.

AstrumU

AstrumU SkillSet is a no-cost app providing personalized civilian career recommendations based on military skills and experiences. Watch this video to find out more!

NextOp

NextOp recruits, develops, and places high-performing middle-enlisted (E-3 to E-7) leaders into industry careers. Their employment coordinators work one-on-one with veterans to identify civilian professions that are right for them.

OneTen

OneTen aims to close the opportunity gap for Black talent and others who do not have a four-year degree through job matching with America’s top employers.

VA for VETS

VA for VETS provides employment readiness assistance and outreach for VA federal employment opportunities.

U.S. Department of Labor

Veteran's Employment and Training Services
Provides workforce pathways and training opportunities, enabling all veterans, service members, and military spouses to secure meaningful employment.

Hiring Our Heroes Military Spouse Program

Access employment resources specifically designed for military spouses including:

Spouse Education and Career Opportunities (SECO) Program

MySECO provides military spouses with expert education and career guidance. The program also offers comprehensive information, tools and resources to support career exploration, education, training, and licensing, employment readiness, and career connections.

  • SECO Career Center: Offers free comprehensive coaching services, including specialized coaching packages to eligible military spouses.
  • MySECO Website: A one-stop online career and education toolbox that provides information, resources, and interactive features designed to assist military spouses pursuing educational and career goals.
  • Self-Assessments: Through the MySECO website, military spouses may access a variety of self-assessments to help them learn more about themselves and what careers may interest them.
  • My Career Advancement Account (MyCAA) Scholarship: A workforce development program that provides eligible military spouses with up to $4,000 of tuition assistance for licenses, certifications, and associate degrees necessary to pursue an occupation or career field.
  • Military Spouse Employment Partnership (MSEP): An employment and career partnership connecting military spouses with more than 700 employers committed to recruit, hire, promote, and retain military spouses in portable careers.

Code of Support

Code of Support provides essential and critical one-on-one assistance to struggling service members, veterans and their families (SMVF) who have the most complex needs.

Elizabeth Dole Foundation Resource Directory

Browse the Elizabeth Dole Foundation Resource Directory to find organizations that help military caregivers and their families. Use the filters to explore resources that address challenges specific to your situation.

Wounded Warrior Project

Wounded Warrior Project (WWP) Warriors to Work program provides warriors and their family members with the resources and assistance they need to be successful in the civilian workforce. Program participants learn the skills necessary to find meaningful employment, live financially resilient lives, and be empowered to reach their highest career ambitions.

Hiring Our Heroes

Hiring Our Heroes is a DoD-authorized SkillBridge provider.

  • Career Forward Fellowship
    Transitioning service members, military spouses, and veterans complete a Google Career Certificate of their choosing through Career Forward prior to applying to the Career Forward Fellowship. Active duty members may use the Career Forward
    Fellowship for their SkillBridge or they can choose a second option, which is a learning based SkillBridge known as the Career Forward Training Track.
  • Corporate Fellowship
    The fellowship provides transitioning service members with processional training and hands-on experience in the civilian workforce. The fellowship features a 12-week syllabus and runs three times a year at select military installations and in host cities around the country.
  • Salesforce Fellowship
    Transitioning service members, and military spouses gain targeted experience as a certified Salesforce professional during a 12-week fellowship. The hands-on experience prepares fellows for a smooth transition into Salesforce careers.
  • Skills-based Fellowship
    Transitioning service members and military spouses focus on developing the skills needed to launch successful careers in high-demand fields such as skilled trades, technology, administration, and finance. The fellowship provides relevant workplace experience paired with upskilling.
Solar Ready Vets Fellowships

Through a Department of Energy-funded grant, transitioning service members who are eligible to participate in a Hiring Our Heroes fellowship (corporate or skills-based) connect with solar employers for 12 weeks of work-based experience in a wide range of roles, intended to lead to full-time employment. Learn more about career opportunities in the solar industry.

Hiring Our Heroes
  • Career Forward with Support from Google
    Military community members learn job-ready skills through a Google Career Certificate in either data analytics, IT support, project management, user experience (UX) design, digital marketing & e-commerce, or cybersecurity. No prior education or experience is required.
  • Digital Resource Library
    Visit the Hiring Our Heroes Digital Resources for virtual education and training resources.
  • Events
    Find upcoming Hiring Our Heroes events and virtual employment workshops.
  • Next Step Vets
    Hiring Our Heroes Career Connectors work one-on-one with transitioning service member, veteran, military spouse, and caregiver candidates to identify training programs, certifications, and employment opportunities that align with candidates’ backgrounds and goals — and with employers’ future hiring needs.
Amazon Military

Use Amazon’s Skills Translator to find the right military hiring initiatives for transitioning service members, military spouses, student veterans, AWS cleared veterans, warehouse, shoppers, drivers, delivery service partners, entrepreneurs, engineers, and more.

Booz Allen’s Mil/Tech Workforce Initiative

Sign up to receive customized resources to upskill into a role in tech.

Microsoft Software & Systems Academy (MSSA)

MSSA provides transitioning service members and veterans, including those with clearance, with critical career skills required for today’s growing technology industry.

Onward 2 Opportunity (O2O)

O2O provides access to training and professional certifications that help prepare transitioning service members, veterans, and miliary spouses for their next careers.

Troops Into Transportation

Exclusive program of the Commercial Driver's License (CDL) School and its partner carriers. The CDL training provides expert knowledge on every aspect of commercial vehicles; from air and brake inspections to extensive on-road training.

U.S. Department of Labor Off-Base Transition Training

Employment-focused training for veterans, including those veterans currently serving in the Reserve Component (National Guard and Reserve members), and their spouses. Free workshops in-person or online.

U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Education and Training

Veteran Readiness and Employment (VR&E)
Assists entitled veterans with service-connected disabilities and an employment handicap to prepare for, obtain, and maintain employment job. It also helps entitled transitioning service members.