Employment
The Texas Veterans Commission offers employment services to Texas veterans and helps employers find qualified veteran job applicants. The goal of these services is to match veteran job seekers with the best employment opportunities available.
Texas leads the nation in veterans’ employment with Texas Veterans Commission employment representatives helping more than 47,500 veterans find employment in 2009. Additionally, the Texas Veterans Commission staff has filled over 500 training slots at the prestigious National Veterans’ Training Institute since 2006 and won 12 national employment awards from both veteran and workforce organizations in 2008 and 2009.
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Job Seekers
Over 190 Texas Veterans Commission employment representatives provide a full range of employment services. They are located in more than 75 cities throughout Texas and offer one-on-one assistance to veterans with job applications, resume preparation, job matching and searches, as well as other intensive services.
The Texas Veterans Commission staff in workforce centers also provides intensive services to disabled veterans, economically or educationally disadvantaged veterans, and veterans with other barriers to employment, especially homeless veterans.
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Employers
In 2009 the Texas Veterans Commission launched an initiative to enhance and centralize services to employers. The Texas Veterans Commission’s Business Outreach Coordinator works with employers to help them understand the value of hiring qualified veterans who possess numerous unique abilities gained through military service veterans. Additionally, the Texas Veterans Commission provides employers with qualified, pre-screened veteran candidates for employment opportunities. This service is provided at no cost to the employer.
Transition Assistance Program
The Transition Assistance Program (TAP) is targeted to military service members and their spouses who are preparing to separate from their respective military service. They are conducted at TAP sites in coordination with the Department of Defense.
Family Employment Assistance Counselors
In September 2009, the Texas Veterans Commission began providing employment services to spouses and caregivers of active duty servicemembers. Family Employment Assistance Counselors are placed at Fort Hood, Fort Bliss and Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio and provide the same services to those spouses and caregivers as they do to veterans.
Vocational Rehabilitation and Employment
The Texas Veterans Commission assigns staff to designated VA facilities to assist disabled veterans with intensive employment assistance. These services are provided to veterans completing their VR&E training or education program and are within 90 days of graduation. Here is more information about applying for VR&E.
REALifelines
This program assists seriously injured who are in the process of being discharged with accessing employment assistance and other related veterans benefits. REALifelines provides immediate intervention and casework support for the veteran. The original Texas Veterans Commission location at San Antonio's Brooke Army Medical Center (BAMC) was one of only six in the country. The Texas Veterans Commission has expanded REALifelines to both Fort Hood in Killeen and Fort Bliss in El Paso.