To: President Donald Trump
Veteran Hiring in Public Service
Veteran preference in Public Service is not enough to help disabled veterans compete for government jobs.
Why is this important?
I am an 8 year veteran of the U.S. Air Force. I currently hold an MBA compliments of the Veterans Administration.
Many Corporations hire and train their personell, even sponsoring visas to make this happen. Once educated, they don't typically let those people walk out the door to work elsewhere.
I wonder why our government is doing just that? Government dollars are spent on educating veterans but where's the Return on Investment for the investors?
From an MBA standpoint, I could never pass this investment through any board of directors in any Corporation. If we're so interested in running our government like a corporation, we must first secure our Return on Investment. I mean hiring veterans after we've trained them.
I currently work in the public sector and I must compete for jobs against applicants who had the luxury of remaining at home and improving their job skills while I was stationed overseas, going without many basic necessities and suffering without my family; this includes a 10 month old daughter who I didn't get the pleasure of seeing until she was 5 years old.
As working-aged Veterans are becoming a smaller portion of our population, we can offer them more preference in selection for public jobs. We earned it; many of us are disabled and don't have the advantage of accepting high paying, laborous jobs. Therefore, we should have greater preference in those jobs we can do.
Please help us!
Thanks,
Andrew Grijalva, MBA
Many Corporations hire and train their personell, even sponsoring visas to make this happen. Once educated, they don't typically let those people walk out the door to work elsewhere.
I wonder why our government is doing just that? Government dollars are spent on educating veterans but where's the Return on Investment for the investors?
From an MBA standpoint, I could never pass this investment through any board of directors in any Corporation. If we're so interested in running our government like a corporation, we must first secure our Return on Investment. I mean hiring veterans after we've trained them.
I currently work in the public sector and I must compete for jobs against applicants who had the luxury of remaining at home and improving their job skills while I was stationed overseas, going without many basic necessities and suffering without my family; this includes a 10 month old daughter who I didn't get the pleasure of seeing until she was 5 years old.
As working-aged Veterans are becoming a smaller portion of our population, we can offer them more preference in selection for public jobs. We earned it; many of us are disabled and don't have the advantage of accepting high paying, laborous jobs. Therefore, we should have greater preference in those jobs we can do.
Please help us!
Thanks,
Andrew Grijalva, MBA