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Continue to Celebrate Veterans’ Day – Hire a Vet Earlier this month we paused on Veterans’ Day to honor those whose commitment and sacrifice purchased the rights we often take for granted. For more than two centuries, the men and women of our armed forces have gone in harm’s way, standing in the breech to preserve and protect our nation. Today, many of those soldiers face an obstacle as daunting as their company First Sergeant: finding a civilian job. For thousands of veterans, securing and succeeding in a new career is often a challenging and frustrating process. This should not be the case. Fortunately, many companies, including AT&T, are ramping up efforts to hire and support veteran employees, while also bringing exceptional talent to the workforce. Recently, AT&T announced that more than 3,600 veterans have started new careers with the company so far in 2013. And, with veterans’ skills proving to be a good fit for the company’s needs, AT&T is doubling its hiring goal for veterans and their family mem-bers to 10,000 over the next five years. More than half of the veterans hired by AT&T in 2013 made their transition to the private sector as technicians as a result of Project Velocity IP (VIP), the company’s investment plan to expand and enhance its IP broadband networks, which is driving technician hiring needs. AT&T’s goal of hiring 10,000 veterans and their family members over the next five years doubles a goal we set in April with the White House’s Joining Forces Initiative. AT&T also announced then that it is leading an initiative with JPMorgan Chase and the 100,000 Jobs Mission to cre-ate the veteran talent exchange, www.vtx.jobs. The exchange enables active-duty military and veteran job candidates to “opt-in” to a talent-sharing database to facilitate the sharing and referral of veteran candidates among participating 100,000 Jobs Mission member companies. AT&T actively supports veterans and their family members with the following resources: AT&T has a veteran career site that includes tools for veterans to match their military skills with AT&T jobs. AT&T launched a military spouse career site that showcases the breadth of AT&T’s portable and virtual careers across our US locations.AT&T’s military talent attraction manager focuses on military recruitment.

The company has a Careers for Veterans program in which AT&T Veterans provide job search advice to veterans transitioning from military service.

Attending a local parade or standing to show respect for a military veteran are welcome ways to honor their past service. But there’s no better honor for America’s veterans than to provide them with job opportunities so they may continue to serve our great nation.

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CompSoucre TPA, Inc. was chosen by the

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ty Administrator this September. Group quotes

have been assembled and were put in the mail and

you have probably received this quote by

now. This quote is to show the immediate savings

your company has in this group for the next 6

months. As a reminder, members that sign with

CompSource the Brown County Chamber will re-

ceive a 10% commission. As well as handing

your workers’ comp the company also handles be-

ginning to end implementation on grant writing

for Drug Free Safety Program, Workplace Well-

ness Grants for $15k, and the Industry-Specific

Safety Program for 3 to 1 matching funds up to

$40k, and Unemployment. Dan Mitchell from

Georgetown, OH will be calling on the members

to set up appointments to review the quotes in fur-

ther details.

Historic Christmas Home Tour

Sunday, December 8, 2013

12:00-5:00 PM

Sponsored by the US Grant Homestead

$10 Ticket

Gift Basket is to be raffled off ($125 Value)

Tour begins at Methodist Church

Purchase ticket prior to day of tour to be

eligible for gift basket

The Georgetown Christmas Association has launched a new website at

www.GeorgetownChristmasAssociationinc.org

Please visit the site for information on up-coming holiday events in Georgetown, in-

cluding the Reindeere 5k run coming up on December 7th!