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Specific links for the military member transitioning from active duty status back to civilian life and the reserve / guard member from extended active duty.
DoD TRANSPORTAL
Designed specifically to assist Service members leaving active duty. While DoD TRANSPORTAL contains valuable information and resources, you should use this site as part of a comprehensive program of transition and employment assistance. The best place to start is your installation Transition Assistance Office.
www.transitionassistanceprogram.com - Registration site for programs
Hire Vets First
The Transition Assistance Program for Veterans (TAP) website provides career information for active duty service members, National Guard, Reserves, and spouses of service members separating or retiring from the military.
The website focuses on:
- Providing you with a valuable tool to use during your transition from military life to civilian life;
- Assisting you in narrowing your job search to those jobs that you have experience and/or an interest in;
- Providing you with multiple resources for you to research civilian, military, state and federal jobs; and
- Teaching you what to expect from the job search process.
MN Dept of Employment and Economic Development
Career decisions relating to education and employment are issues faced by many returning veterans. The Transition Assistance Program (TAP) / Army Career and Alumni Program (ACAP) Workshop, provided by the Veterans Employment Service, can help you make the right choices. The TAP/ACAP Workshop will help you assess your present life situation, set goals, and make career choices. You will develop job research and job seeking skills, and create a plan to achieve the results you want. As a TAP/ACAP participant, you will learn how to find hidden job opportunities, write effective resumes and cover letters, highlight your job skills in an interview, and negotiate a fair wage. We encourage you to bring your spouse if possible.
Although there is NO COST for you to attend this workshop, you will have to pay your own travel and lodging costs.
Operation Transition
Sponsored by the Department of Defense, Operation Transition provides the Transition Bulletin Board (TBB), an automated system which contains a listing of job want ads and other useful information to separating/retiring military and federal civilian personnel and their spouses. On average, more than 10,000 want ads representing over 30,000 jobs can be viewed on the TBB every day.
Soldier Support Foundation
Soldier Support Foundation is a non-profit designed to meet the many needs of returning servicemen and women and their families. The veterans on our Board of Directors served in the Marines, National Guard, and Army reserve, and we work with all veterans and families to ease in the transition back to civilian life.
USA - Army Career and Alumni Program (ACAP)
The Army Career and Alumni Program (ACAP) was created by the Army to provide world-class transition and job assistance services to the Soldiers and civilian employees and their family members who have selflessly served their nation.
USMC - Transition Assistance Management Program (TAMP)
The Transition Assistance Management Program (TAMP) provides career/employment assistance, vocational guidance, and transition information to separating Marines and their family members. The tools and information provided enable all separating Marines and their family members to make a successful transition from military to civilian life. Separating Marines are counseled and advised of the availability of these programs and their responsibility for attending prior to leaving the military.
Transition Assistance Online
Transition Assistance Online, TAOnline.com, is the largest single source of transition assistance information and tools for today's separating military. On this transition assistance web site servicemembers, both prior and current, can find all the resources needed to smoothly transition from their appreciated military service to the perfect civilian career. Military hiring employers and advertisers can post job ads, search resumes and advertise directly to military candidates in their pursuit to hire military candidates. Military hire candidates can search job ads, post resumes and explore business and educational opportunities for their careers after the military.
US Dept. of Labor - Veterans' Employment and Training Service
The Transition Assistance Program (TAP) was established to meet the needs of separating service members during their period of transition into civilian life by offering job-search assistance and related services.
US Dept. of Veterans Affairs
Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) web site for returning Active Duty, National Guard and Reserve service members of Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom (OEF/OIF). We honor the opportunity to provide benefits information and assistance to eligible veterans who honorably fought and served in our Nation's armed forces.
www.gibill.va.gov/Vet_Info/ta.htm - information related to the GI Bill, including the Disabled Transition Assistance Program (DTAP).
www.vetsuccess.gov/dtap/ - information specific to the Disabled Transition Assistance Program (DTAP).
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