Annual Military Friendly Employers® Survey Opens Today

PITTSBURGH, July 26 /PRNewswire/ -- G.I. Jobs announces that its eighth annual Military Friendly Employers® survey opened today at www.gijobs.com/mfe.  Deadline for survey completion is September 3.  The 5,000 companies competing for the honor must have annual revenues in excess of $500 million.  

The eight-year old G.I. Jobs Military Friendly Employers® list serves as the primary benchmark of corporate recruiting programs aimed at military veterans.  The annual survey is one of the critical metrics used to determine the nation's most military friendly employers®.  

Despite a jobs market that continues to struggle, 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, maturity, team-oriented philosophy and accountability to the workplace.  These are attributes that are either impossible or too expensive to teach in a civilian setting.  

Matthew Rose, Chairman, president and CEO of BNSF Railway, a consistent top five military friendly employer and #1 in 2007, knows the business case for hiring veterans, saying that "those who wore our nation's uniforms are mission-focused, highly skilled, motivated and possess unique experiences and technical knowledge.  Military candidates embody the core competencies of BNSF: leadership, teamwork and the ability to perform safely in a fast-paced, dynamic environment."  

Criteria for the G.I. Jobs Military Friendly Employers® rankings 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).  

ABOUT G.I. Jobs

Since 2001, G.I. Jobs (www.gijobs.com) is a multimedia market maker enjoining military veterans seeking civilian careers with employers wishing to hire them.  75,000 copies of G.I. Jobs magazine publishes monthly.  A full list of Military Friendly Employers® can be found at www.gijobs.com/top100mfe.

SOURCE G.I. Jobs

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