HR pros think highly of vets — even if they’re not trying to hire you
One chart in a recent poll on recruiting and employing veterans caught my eye.
The Society of Human Resource Management asked HR professionals what they considered the benefits of hiring military veterans, and the pros gave vets high marks for responsibility, leadership, work ethic, professionalism, problem-solving … I could go on, but you get the idea. In a nutshell, they have a high opinion of your intangible skills.
This is not what surprised me.
What intrigued me was how the responses were broken down. Respondents were divided into organizations that had hired veterans, organizations that had made an effort to hire veterans, and organizations that had not made an effort to hire veterans.
The poll showed that HR managers at organizations that had not made an effort to hire veterans value vets? skills just as much as those whose companies have actually hired vets. In fact, they rated veterans more highly in 12 of the 16 criteria.
For whatever reason, it seems that a high opinion of veterans as employees does not necessarily translate into tangible efforts to employ them.
Do you have any ideas why hiring managers who are not actively recruiting veterans would have an even higher opinion of vets than those who do?
