PITTSBURGH, May 1 /PRNewswire/ — In response to corporate demand for establishing and growing military recruiting programs, G.I. Jobs (www.gijobs.com) has released some data from its recent benchmark report. The data provides large corporations with perspective metrics to help improve their success in hiring America’s transitioning military troops.
The G.I. Jobs Top 50 Military Friendly Employers(R) list, in its seventh year, pioneered such rankings and its list remains the definitive benchmark used by military veterans to gauge which companies are most committed to hiring them.
With regard to “efforts,” or resources allocated to recruiting military candidates, the average Top 50 Military Friendly Employers(R) allocated 24 percent of its total recruitment budget to recruiting military candidates. Two-thirds of the Top 50 employers have an extensive section on their recruiting Web site dedicated specifically to military hiring and, on average, each company employs 4.3 recruiters who are focused primarily on recruiting military candidates.
As for “results,” 17 percent of the Top 50 Military-Friendly Employers'(R) hires over the previous year were military veterans.
Despite the recent hiring downturn, corporate America views access to military talent as a critical long-term staffing strategy. The military produces 400,000 new civilian workers annually — job seekers who bring a tremendous work ethic, leadership, team-oriented philosophy and accountability to the workplace. These are attributes that are either impossible or too expensive to teach in a civilian setting.
While recruitment budgets in many companies are cycling down with a temporary drop in talent needs, Top 50 Military Friendly Employers(R) are maintaining military recruitment resource allocation, armed with the knowledge that building a military friendly brand is vital to long term military recruiting success.
Criteria for the G.I. Jobs Military Friendly Employers(R) rankings has always been and remains objective, quantitative and comprehensive. Criteria includes assets dedicated to military hiring (28 percent), Reserve/Guard policies (18 percent), percentage of new hires who are veterans (14 percent), veteran training programs (10 percent) and previous three years’ rankings (30 percent). The 2009 corporate survey, a primary tool used to compile the list, will be available in June 2009.
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