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Q: What is 5 Star Recruitment’s goal?
A: At 5 Star Recruitment, we are excited to help companies
unite with outstanding candidates that have proven to be the “best of
the best”. 5 Star Recruitment
offers you the most comprehensive and cost-effective way to reach and influence
this valuable market. Whether you want to hire new professionals or market your
educational programs, 5 Star
Recruitment delivers your message with efficiency and flair.
Through years of our company’s personnel’s dedication and customer satisfaction,
5 Star Recruitment has
come up with a formula that works! 5
Star Recruitment helps connect candidates with different career options
through first class job listings and extensive company profiles. 5 Star Recruitment offers a personalized
service, complete ad design and worldwide exposure. This means more value and
visibility, which means that your ad will be favorably received with the high
quality response you deserve. 5 Star
Recruitment goes a step further than other website advertising
companies. At 5 Star Recruitment
we have a marketing department for Veterans, the Veteran’s Job Link, that
actually gets on the phone and makes calls and contacts Transition Officers,
Career Guidance Counselors, Veteran’s Associations, Military Medical
Institutions and much more, on our client’s behalf. Although anyone, stateside
or abroad, can view the website and the companies that are recruiting, we don’t
solely rely on that aspect for your results. That is why 5 Star Recruitment is so pro-active in doing the leg work for you.
Q: Who should advertise
with 5 Star Recruitment?
A: Everyone that is eager to reach
exceptional, disciplined candidates should advertise with 5 Star Recruitment. Employers should be aware that military service provides exceptional training, so 5 Star oftentimes targets those candidates first. Every year there are
approximately 300,000 to 350,000* candidates separating out of the Military and
seeking their new careers. Every day you
are reaching a new audience of talented applicants and their experience
surpasses the general population of applicants out there. Their abilities are
derived from the experience they’ve received and nurtured as team players,
while serving our country. Since leadership skills are one of the great assets
of the Military personnel that have completed their tour of duty, you can also
reach a number of people wanting to start their own franchise business.
Companies should be ready and willing
to “brand” their name as well. These new consumers will be purchasing
everything from food, clothing, homes and cars, to services such as relocation
movers, insurances, banking, travel, dining and entertainment. Since the G.I.
Bill allows for education benefits, Schools
and Institutions of Higher Learning should also be focusing their direction
this way as well.
Q: How does 5 Star Recruitment compare to other sources out there? A: Other Print and Online Sources produce sub-par results with short-term benefits, passive job seekers, high numbers of unqualified responses, significantly higher cost per hire, relocation costs incurred by employer and short shelf life. As one of thousands of advertisers, your ad gets lost in the shuffle. We do not “collect” resumes that are outdated and pass them around to our client companies. It is very time-consuming for employers to be pulling resumes off a website and trying to contact those people when they are outdated. When they do reach the applicant, they find out that a job has already been secured, or they are not interested in that company / job / location, etc. That is precisely why at 5 Star Recruitment, we oftentimes have the prospective candidate respond directly to you. This way you know that there is truly an interest there and you don’t waste your time searching them out. Candidates will respond based off of instructions in your ad, whether it be by phone, fax, e-mail, mail or applying on line.
Q: Why do companies
benefit from being noted as “military-friendly”?
A:
Ex-Military personnel want to work for Military-friendly companies that have a
mutual sense of respect. Knowing that the company they work for understands and
appreciates the commitment and sacrifice they have provided to our country for
our freedom means a lot to them. They will tell their comrades about these
companies that are interested to capture this audience of Military Personnel.
In this economy it is crucial to employ the “best of the best”.
Q: Why hire Military
Candidates?
A: Every year there are approximately 350,000*
candidates separating out of the Military and seeking their new careers,
along with their spouses and families. And now, with a definite date for
drawback of troops in the Iraq/Afghanistan War, we can surely expect a much
greater pool of candidates who will be needing employment in the coming years. Your
company needs the talents, diversity and job skills these people possess. They
are responsible, hard workers that will take their position with your company
seriously. Even though most are still young enough to be molded to your
company’s needs, they are mature, accomplished adults. They know how to obtain
goals with follow through efforts. They have high levels of military training in multifaceted areas through vigorous
instruction. They have completed their training with high marks of achievement.
They are extremely physically fit, enduring constant rigorous maneuvers. Most
of the Veterans will be returning to the workforce with Security Clearances,
some with Top Secret Security Clearances. The Government pays for most
interviewing and relocation costs for those that qualify. This is a great
benefit to employers that will not have to incur this expense.
Q: What Services are
available to Military Personnel when transitioning out?
A: There are several programs
that are required for those transitioning out. TAP (Transition Assistant
Program) and ACAP (Army Career Alumni Program) serve as
a guide with classroom lectures and activities that assist and instruct
on resume writing, interview attire and course of action to be taken in seeking
their new careers. The resources obtained through the TAP/ACAP are quite helpful in steering them in the right direction.
Because of the TAP & ACAP personnel’s direct involvement, we
pride ourselves on helping them present the opportunities of the
Military-friendly companies we work with to the potential applicants. 5 Star Recruitment is always
making contact and updating their records with the Transition Officers and
Guidance Counselors and we know how important this relationship is to our
continued service. TAP/ACAP managers
receive weekly updates and changes from 5
Star Recruitment so they are always ready to present the latest
information.
VETS (Veterans Employment &
Training Service) is a training
and funding federally run program with offices nationwide. VETS Local Veteran Employment Representatives (LVERs) and Disabled Veteran Outreach Program Representatives (DVOPs) offices work with the employment
and educational requirements of those currently transitioning out as well as
those that have already exited. Electronic job postings from 5 Star Recruitment are
distributed weekly to all the VETS employment offices nationwide.
*Sources and
statistics above include information found at the Department of Defense
website, www.dodtransportal.org, as well as the
Department of Labor’s website, www.dol.gov. |
