Lactaid ice cream PETE today is national hire a veteran day k, but for one companyies this is a year round. Mission Recruit military, connects veterans with companies looking to hire our heroes, helping those who served jump start their next career and is job search. The company helped bring our next two guests together joining me now, the CEO of Recruit Military and: U Dot S army veteran TIM best as well as vice president of WG, Yates and sons, construction company, also an army, veteran Scott Gerald and the leadership development and an army veteran. Thank you so much for being here. What a cool concept TIM tell me why you started it and what it does sure thanks PETE thanks so much for having us on Recruit Military, our passion is empowering veterans to meaningful career opportunities,

and we act on that every day by delivering military talent, solutions for corporate America, and we know that theres, two big challenges out there with veteran hiring the first is reach. The second is translation, and we talk about REACH Pete Reach is how to do these audiences, find each other and come together and translation is how do they understand each other and so at Recruit military. The way we solve this is first, we focus on reach. We bring the audiences together through things like our career fairs, both in person at big venues like soldier field, Atampt Stadium and then our virtual career fairs, where we bring them total, virtually and a great together virtually over the past year. In the pandemic, we brought over ninety three thousand veteran job seekers with over four thousand employers. We know when we bring them together that way new our online

job platform, where we hold the hand of both audiences and bring them together. We solve that reach problem, and the second thing PETE is when we solve the reach problem. We start affecting the translation problem and that translation problem happens when we bring those two audiences together to have conversations. What happens is veteran job seekers are able to better describe personally their background. Their experiences background their experiences, the value they bring, PETE the intangibles yeah the things that dont always translate on a military resum, which is difficult to do so true, PETE Scott, you presumably attended one of you, presumably attended one of fairs virtually or in person tell us about it. Yes, thanks PETE, first and foremost, PETE just want to say thank you for your service and what youre doing for our veterans very, very important for this country. Ive been ive known, TIMS organization for almost twenty five years

and have been able to work with his organization closely to find good candidates coming out of the military, which we have some really great ones being able to position them within our organization. Pete and one of those is deaths, knit destiny thanks for being here and also for your service. Thank you. Pete talk to us about the process. I mean dealing with the a pandemic last year and transitioning out all. At the same time, it was incredibly stressful to think about and recruit military kind of did all the legwork. For me, I was getting calls from them every week asking me: what do you need in a job to make you happy, after you transition out of the military, its incredibly hard to take what youve done in the military and change it into a corporate

setting and make it make sense, but theyre able to do that so incredibly well, and they were able to match me with w dot g able to match me with w dot g Yates and its been a life changing experience. Scott has been such a great mentor to me already, ive only been with hem since February them since February, and Aye already learned so much its been a smooth transition, which is a lot of the hesitation for people getting out of the military PETE for sure you dont know what to expect. You dont know if youre going to be able to have income, especially right now, its just a fluctuation and so to have people who really care, and they want to see you succeed and they want to be the person in your corner, helping you every step of the way I mean even now. After having the job that I do and im so blessed and grateful for in this organization, because they still call me and are like you know, hey are you enjoying your job? Is this? Is it making you happy

and its really thats what it is? They want you to be happy at the end of the day, youre not going to find that anywhere else, people that genuinely care PETE, you couldnt, have a better endorsement, and when I hear we only have about fifteen seconds left its a translation of purpose, you know its purposeful in the military. How do you find that next chapter? Absolutely right, you find it by having conversations find companies that align with your core values, with the ability to exebb cute on those values. The way you had in the military and Destinys done a great job with that PETE and it turns out those companies get great workers who know how to show up on time. Do their job ask the right questions when they need to for sure TIM Scott is destiny. Thank you. So much the organization is Recruit Military, changing lives.