Friday, December 9, 2016

HIREPATRIOTS!! Solving Veteran Unemployment Nationwide

As promised, this week I will be sharing information to help those of you who are need of assistance in various areas of your lives.  I found this particular organization on LinkedIn and after reading about their mission I couldn’t help but reach out to them.  I am urging you, if you are in need of their services or know of someone who might be that you share their information.  I truly believe that Mark, and his beautiful wife Tori do what they do because they really care about you and want to make a difference.

I thought of what I could say to tell you just what it is they do but who better to tell the story than those who are living it everyday.  Below is a newsletter that Mark recently published highlighting just who and what HirePatriots is about.

Enjoy and I pray that it does you some good.

As always, thank you for your support.

TTYL- Be blessed.

Hello HirePatriots Friends:
Many people wonder what exactly we do every day at HirePatriots. They also ask what their donations provide? These are very important questions for me to answer. Here is my comprehensive reply: Please send me your comments.
Please give us your feedback on our new HirePatriots.com web design. Do you see any changes or improvements that your would like us to make? Let us knowhttps://hirepatriots.com /

Assisting US Veterans: This is our primary job. Every day we are in contact for many hours with US veterans and their spouses that need counseling, advice, jobs, encouragement; or, who want to start or build a business (my specialty.)

Creating Veteran Owned Businesses: In order to further duplicate our efforts to employ US veterans, we created a business-in-a-box for veteran entrepreneurs 2 years ago. It has had sensational results! It is called US Military Maintenance. (I have four decades of experience in building residential and commercial maintenance businesses.) Our USMM owners who have reached their 18th month mark are earning in excess of $500,000 a year. But more importantly, they are employing dozens of US veterans, and paying them a good and livable wage. We have 27 USMM businesses up and running so far. Our goal is to create 1000 USMM businesses and to collectively employ 100,000 US veterans. See our locations across America by going to http://usmilitarymaintenanc e.com/.

One Day Jobs: Our One Day job board is healthy and well. We have seen an increase in the recent months in job postings. But we still need many times more job postings. Every day myriads of active duty military and transitioned veterans come to HirePatriots.com’s One Day Job Board looking for extra income. Here is a link to PEOPLE Magazine’s feature about this unique job board: Click HEREAnd read comments made by our job board users HERE.

One way that you can help is to print and pass-out some of our posters at your church, club, business, etc. Click HERE to see a selection of HirePatriots posters. 

Marketing for Military Friendly Businesses:  If you own a business, we will build a customized HirePatriots job board for your company so that you can spread the word and have people come to your website to post and find jobs for veterans. Over 200 businesses in 37 states have done so thus far.  All of our posters can be customize to promote your business' support of our program. Plus, we will even build you your own HirePatriots.com website and job board for your business. 

Our Careers Job Board: HirePatriots also leases the very best job board software available to serve the companies that post on our job board. Fantastic new updates have just been installed. For instance, for each full-time job posted, companies receive a minimum of 5 matching resumes from our vast database. Post on the HirePatriots Careers Job Board HERE.

Blogging: The most popular part of the HirePatriots.com website are the articles that I post concerning veteran and national issues. Over 300,000 people a year read those blog posts. The national media picks a few each year and publishes them, or has us in for a live interview. These opportunities give us a chance to advocate for US veterans and their families. It also drives thousands of veterans to contact us each year and ask for assistance.

Job Fairs: HirePatriots has been holding job fairs on US military bases for over a dozen years. We are able to turn these into "Hiring Events" especially for your company too. Our most recent job fair was held at Camp Pendleton Marine Base in San Diego (This base has 75,000 personnel, and  transitions 900 US Marines every month back into our civilian world.) Companies received an 8ft. table, table clothes, chairs, a catered lunch, soft drinks, coffee, and a blog post and banner on the HirePatriots.com homepage. We paid for the base to advertise our event: We promoted our job fair on their electronic signage, and posted 300 color posters around the base. – It costs a lot to put on this event. And it takes hundreds of hours of work to pull together. But so many veterans have contacted us over the years to tell us how important our events are in getting them started in life that our military base job fairs are worth every cent we spend!  Our US military are very grateful for HirePatriots bringing together veteran friendly businesses for them to meet and with which to begin a career. 

Marriage Retreats: Unfortunately, the military life is tough on marriages and families. There are long deployments away from home, and frequent moves to other parts of the country. And until you make Master Sergeant or its equivalent, there is not much money either. Most of our enlisted families suffer a lot of deprivation. Many receive gov’t subsidized bread and cheese to keep their families fed. These hardships and more make it very difficult for young marriages and families to survive.
HirePatriots rents suites at hotels with romantic views for our 3-day military marriage retreats. These are small peer groups of less than 12 couples. We get a lot of volunteers to help us with these and they are always fantastic events that our couples will always cherish. -- We are able to put on these extremely critical 3-day retreats with great meals, gifts, counseling and workbooks only with donations received from you. 

Extra Stuff: To make more veterans and companies aware of our outstanding recruiting and marketing services, we employ and work with an SEO company on a full-time basis. We must employ a full-time webmaster too. We have many websites all-across the nation that are serving local communities. Stephen Geronimo, our webmaster, has spent many months rebuilding HirePatriots.com and its 2500 pages. He has transferred everything over to a template on WordPress that is more compatible with mobile phones. To secure and to keep so many websites running we also lease our own Cloud server.

How Does HirePatriots Keep Going?

Last year, by helping companies to hire the right veterans for their needs; and by writing blogs; and by marketing and social networking for businesses, Patriotic Hearts was able to raise $80,000 for Patriotic Hearts, (our 501c3 NPO). Another $10,000 was received through donations made by citizens like you. Our budget for 2017 is $100,000. Please continue to help us provide our vital services to our deserving US military, veterans, and their families. 

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