Hire A Hero

In 2006 the Armed Forces Support Foundation (501(c)(3) was created, along with Hire A Hero, to provide free employment services to returning service members and their families. Hire A Hero was created as an online professional networking site that provides employment services specifically geared towards meeting the employment needs of returning military members and their families. Our research and experience suggests that conventional job boards fail to identify the specific needs of returning veterans and did not effectively connect them with the wider military community. Hire A Hero is a national program that was created to address this gap.

WWW.HIREAHERO.ORG began as a professional networking website focused on employment as returning service members transition from military to civilian life. Our mission is to serve the greater military community by providing a international accessible online community that creates opportunities for returning veterans. Hire A Hero provides access to meaningful employment and connects veterans to mentors (those who are currently employed but formerly in the military). Over the past three years, Hire A Hero has grown into a nation-wide resource the connects the growing number of unemployed veterans with job opportunities, education, training, social services, and counseling with the goal of providing consistent support through our the veteran's career. Over the past two years, Hire A Hero has had over 190,000 veterans register, and helped 3 out of 10 veterans find a career. These placement achievements are based on using web 2.0 professional network technology that creates a platform to allow the all veterans to connect with other veterans.

Our successful approach was recognized by Time Magazine (September '08) as one of the top 21 ways to "Fix America" and was ranked at number 11.