What you'll learn:
- Build a veteran-ready hiring process that reduces bias and improves fit
- Translate military experience into civilian skills for fair screening decisions
- Design onboarding that reduces culture shock and accelerates performance
- Implement veteran-supportive policies for leave, reservists, and protections
- Launch or strengthen Veteran ERGs to drive belonging and retention
- Apply practical accommodations and wellbeing support with confidence
- Create career paths, mentorship, and stretch roles that keep veterans engaged
- Track veteran hiring and retention metrics and turn insights into action
Every year, around 200,000 service members transition out of the U.S. military and into civilian life—and thousands more do the same across other countries.
Here’s the opportunity most employers miss: veterans bring proven leadership, adaptability, and mission focus—yet many are screened out by ATS filters, hired into underleveled roles, or leave early because the workplace wasn’t built to support the transition.
And that “early exit” problem is real. Research has found that 43% of veterans leave their first civilian job within a year, and 80% leave within two years—often due to misalignment, lack of growth, and weak onboarding.
That’s exactly what this course is designed to fix.
You’ll learn how to build a veteran-ready employee experience—from recruiting and hiring to onboarding, inclusion, wellbeing, and long-term retention. This is built for HR leaders, managers, and people teams who want practical tools they can implement immediately.
In this course, you’ll learn how to:
Identify where veterans get unintentionally filtered out—and redesign your process
Source veteran talent using the right channels (programs, partners, job boards)
Translate military experience into job-relevant skills (fair, bias-aware screening)
Run structured interviews that help veterans demonstrate transferable value
Build onboarding that reduces culture shock and accelerates performance
Create policies and benefits that support veterans, reservists, and families
Strengthen belonging through Veteran ERGs and inclusive team practices
Support wellbeing and accommodations with confidence and respect
Retain veteran talent with clear career paths, mentorship, and leadership growth
You’ll also walk through a real-world case study (Starbucks) to see what veteran hiring and inclusion looks like at scale—and how to adapt the lessons to your organization.
If you want to move beyond “good intentions” and build a workplace where veterans are truly set up to thrive, you’re in the right place.
