5 Reasons Why Veterans Make Great Agency Employees

May 23, 2012

By Kevin McPoyle, CIC, president and co-founder, KMRD Partners, Inc. 

Paul Rieckhoff, founder and executive editor of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA), recently reported that 17 percent of returning veterans are out of work. This is more than twice the national unmployment average of 8 percent. What’s worse, the national average is nearly twice what it was before the 2008 financial crisis.  read more..