Be a Hero-Hire a Hero, a sponsor of Army Week NOLA

This week's Monday Spotlight is on a sponsor for Army Week Association, Be a Hero-Hire a Hero.

                                           

         Be a Hero-Hire a Hero is an organization, founded by Jeff Klare and Noritza Perito, with  intentions of making the transition from military life to civilian life easier on our soldiers coming home from deployments. Although neither have served, the experiences of their family members in the service have helped make this dream possible. They originally started out hoping to help Wounded Warriors re-enter the workplace and start their civilian careers.  Since then, they’ve expanded their reach to assist all veterans, their spouses, and their families.  

           They’re able to assist veterans, spouses, and family members by incorporating three aspects into the job search;  promote education, recruiting, and retaining. They assist employers by educating them about all of factors that affect our veterans, as well as, educating the employers to interpret a soldier’s skillset. For our veterans to obtain and retain a job, their employers need to be educated about ways to assist them.  Jeff Klare and BAH-HAH take that responsibility seriously.  

 Be a Hero- Hire a Hero hosts many career expos to assist veterans, spouses, and family members in finding gainful employment. They incorporate a myriad of tools including career counseling, resume preparation, E-blasts of open job requisitions, a toll-free transition hotline, and follow along services for 1 year post placement.  They have produced career events from Boston to Los Angeles, from the Intrepid to Foxwoods Casino, to the National Constitution Center. There is also a virtual career fair that allows employers, veterans, and military spouses to communicate from anywhere in the world if transportation/timing is a problem.  They’ve developed a search tool where job seekers can type in location, keyword, and even their Military Occupation Specialty Code to make the job hunt easier and more manageable for our veterans. Since 2011, over 18,000 veterans and military spouses have been hired by leading companies in America.

            The transition from military life to civilian life is a long process and doesn't happen in one day. To date, thousands of our veterans and heroes have been provided job-searching strategies, employment, and  services through the help of Be a Hero-Hire a Hero.  Jeff Klare and Be a Hero-Hire a Hero, work very closely with Army Week Association. In September, BAH-HAH, Save A Suit, and AWA donated over 600 suits to veterans at a Citi Field Career Expo in NYC.  This Sunday, November 3rd, we are teaming up for the New York Jets vs New Orleans Saints Military Appreciation Game at Met Life Stadium.  On November 6, BAH-HAH will be producing a Career Expo Event in Philadelphia with UPenn and Drexel University at Legion Field.  Our COO, Jen Wilson, will be speaking at that event.  

Army Week is proud to support, and be supported by, Jeff Klare and an organization like Be a Hero-Hire a Hero that do so many wonderful things for our veterans, their spouses,  and their family members.

Go check out Be a Hero- Hire a Hero’s website at http://www.beahero-hireahero.com/ .