Veterans Employment

We’ll start with an assessment of your current educational achievements, vocational skills, military experience and identify any barriers to employment that exist. From this initial assessment, we can better map out a strategy for job training and placement that matches your strengths and meets your goals.

Advances in technology impact all employment categories and can create hardship especially for older veterans. At Goodwill Career Centers you can improve your tech skills and computer literacy while honing other job skills including on-line job searching, interviewing techniques and resume writing. Then we’ll match you with local employers in your community who we encourage to hire veterans and support you through the application and interviewing process.

Disability, addiction, PTSD, criminal background, lack of high school diploma can all seem like insurmountable barriers to finding and keeping a good job. But Goodwill can help break down those barriers. Our professional Career Coaches will work one-on-one with you to lay out
a program that matches your interests and skills with what employers are looking for. You put in the effort and we will champion your cause and support your efforts to get over the past and get moving forward again.

U.S. military veterans residing in central Illinois, despite disability, gender or when military service concluded, are eligible for Goodwill’s free employment service program. All you need is the desire to get back to work and change life for the better.

To get started, call the nearest Goodwill Career Development Center to make an appointment.