Public and Private Sector Tech Helping Vets Get Jobs

Hey, people in Veterans Affairs and elsewhere are working with folks in private industry to help vets get jobs. They're doing some genuinely innovative work.

Key to this is the Blue Button effort, which now allows vets to download their service record including skills codes. That record can be used in a number of innovative ways, to build better resumes and also to more effectively find jobs based on those skill codes.

For example, the following is a live visual portfolio for Ann Weeby, built using tools from rrripple.com, based on the skills codes in the Blue Button skills file...