Vets get help to restart careers
Ohio welcomes back roughly 10,000 men and women from the military every year and is home to nearly 800,000 veterans — heroes who have volunteered to put their lives on the line to protect our freedom. Many return from service ready to invest their strong technical and leadership skills in the success of an employer but are unsure of how or where to build their civilian careers.
In March, the Ohio Department of Veterans Services is hosting an opportunity for career-minded former service members, current military and military spouses: the Veterans Career Accelerator. This gathering at The Point at Otterbein University, 60 Collegeview Road, on the evening of March 5 will be a way to speed-network, meet with job recruiters and learn about small business opportunities for veterans.
Like anyone looking to start, pivot or re-energize a career, veterans just need an opportunity to connect and highlight their worth. Our Veterans Career Accelerator will help give them that chance.
Those interested should register to attend at Ohio Vets.gov/Accelerator.
Chip Tansill Director Ohio Department of Veterans Services Columbus Thankfully, our kids have become leaders. It’s time to follow the young people. The victims of our nation’s mostrecent mass shooting could have, understandably, solely focused on rebuilding their own lives. Instead, these “kids” have demonstrated courage and poise beyond their years by commanding the media’s gaze and demanding actual solutions from our “leaders.”
Both the weight and the eyes of the world are on those children — and the world is rightfully in awe. In contrast, far too many of our politicians have ignored a worsening public health and safety epidemic that just stole another 17 students and teachers from us.
Much like Florida’s statewide walkouts, there’s another set to take place nationwide at 10 a.m. March 14. We should remember the dead and reward the survivors’ bravery by staging walkouts at our places of employment. Surely we have enough backbone to do the same as our promising kids.
Demand sweeping reform.
Michael Nyeste Columbus