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- Employment program offers career direction to ex-soldiers
- Career track at CP onward, upward
- Working partners
Employment program offers career direction to ex-soldiers
Killeen Daily Herald, TX
Part of the Army Family Covenant reads:
“We recognize the commitment and increasing sacrifices that our families are making every day. “We recognize the strength of our soldiers comes from the strength of their families. “We are committed to providing soldiers and families a quality of life that is commensurate with their service. “We are committed to improving family readiness by expanding education and employment opportunities for family members. ”
Secretary of the Army Pete Geren presented Col. Bill Hill, garrison commander, with the Quality of Life Award for Communication Excellence for the post’s marketing campaign, “Get Out On Fort Hood,” or GOOF off at the Association of the U.
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Career track at CP onward, upward
Calgary Herald, Canada
Yerema and his team scoured through a list of 75,000 employers to whittle it down to a record number of 16,000 who were invited to participate. About 2,000 employers made the short-list for closer examination of Canada’s Top Employers in 2009. Patti Clarkson, an employment advisor at CP, believes that being ranked among the top employers will pay dividends down the line. “We have eight people doing recruiting out of our employment centre, but we have 15,000 employees that can also recruit for us,” she says. “By reading this, it reaffirms their belief in their company.
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Working partners
Newsday, NY
“Sometimes I felt if I worked as a teacher, for example, we wouldn’t have had that expense. But, then I wouldn’t have the other benefits and flexibility of working with my husband. ” When it comes to togetherness, many business partners boast of having an edge over couples who carved out individual careers, the former anticipating less of an emotional and psychological transition from employment to retirement since they are used to spending so much time together. Wysel sees a richer retirement than husbands and wives who worked apart. “One of the greatest hurdles that couples encounter is the excessive amount of time they find themselves spending together all of a sudden,” Wysel explained. ” Couples working together in a family business often address the issue of retirement sooner than couples with jobs independent from each other because a succession plan may already exist.