Hiring Our Heroes gears up for monthly virtual job fair

Modern advances in technology, which allow content streaming and put the world at our fingertips, are benefiting transitioning and unemployed veterans and spouses across the nation through the Hiring Our Heroes Virtual Job Scout, a free online career fair platform that includes all the resources and opportunities of a live Hiring Our Heroes job fair.

Sponsored by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the Steven & Alexandra Cohen Foundation, the Virtual Job Scout puts all the benefits and resources of a Hiring Our Heroes career fair in virtual format, avaialble to military-community jobseekers and recruiting employers.

Since its inception in August, more than 500 employers and 5,500 veterans and military spouses have signed up to use the site. While on the site, applicants can create personal, professional profiles and showcase their skills all while accessing job postings and interacting with recruiters.

Hiring Our Heroes hosts a Virtual Job Scout job fair monthly, allowing new and current site users to interact in live chats with recruiters.

The next virtual job fair event is October 29 from 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.

Such virtual events grow in necessity as more statistics on unemployed veterans come to light. Although the Department of Labor reported a marginal decrease in the unemployment rate in 2014, more than 200,000 veterans from all eras are still finding it increasingly difficult to translate their military job skills into gainful civilian jobs.

For more information, visit www.virtualjobscout.org.