Members of the coalition formed by ASTA to provide career opportunities to veterans and military spouses have hired more than 600 veterans during the first four months of this year.
Created in response to a national initiative from the White House encouraging all industries to support military families, ASTA said Monday that members of the Joining Forces Travel Coalition, launched in February, had committed to committed to providing nearly 3,000 jobs by 2014.
"[Members] have been extremely active in seeking and hiring veteran job candidates to meet that goal,” said ASTA CEO Tony Gonchar. “This initiative has met with strong positive response as is evidenced by the fact that at just a few months in, we are already a fifth of the way to our goal.”
The coalition's U.S. launch partners were Amadeus North America, American Express Consumer Travel Network, Avis Budget Group, Dollar Thrifty Automotive Group, Enterprise Holdings, Hertz Corp. and Orbitz Worldwide.
As part of its commitment to the coalition, Hertz launched a military portal http://hertz.jobs/military/ that enables veterans and family members to view all openings within every division of Hertz, and apply directly to those openings.
Orbitz participated in the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Hiring our Heroes military spouse-hiring event at Fort Hood, which was attended by almost 1,100 military family members and veterans.
Since the event, Orbitz said nine military spouses have accepted offers of employment, and that 24 applicants from Fort Hood are going through the interview process.
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