EVANSVILLE, IN (WFIE) -
A local retailer is gearing up for a special workshop next week. The workshop will help area veterans find work.
It's called Mission Transition. Home Depots across the nation are busy getting vets registered, in the hopes that they'll be better prepared to work. Not only at their stores, but anywhere they can find a good job.
"It's part of the reason that I wanted to work here, because I knew they had that commitment to helping veterans," said Home Depot manager Tim Nixon.
When Melissa Greathouse began her job-search a year and a half ago, she knew her experience in the Navy would suit her well on the Home Depot sales floor.
"It was a great experience," she said. "I'd go back in a heartbeat."
Melissa is one of more than 35,000 veterans and active military hired by the home improvement chain.
Nine thousand veterans landed jobs there last year alone.
"It makes me really proud of our company, what we stand for and how we're trying to help the community and just the way they impact our stores," said Nixon.
The US Department of Labor says more than 720,000 veterans are currently unemployed.
Organizers behind the more than 100 planned mission transition workshops are hoping they can help.
With sessions focused on job search strategies, resumes and how to handle the all-important first interview.
"We just feel like we want to do something to help them out so this is not only to help them find careers with home depot but to find careers, you know, through other civilian jobs," said Nixon.
Evansville's Mission Transition workshop will be held Saturday October 27th from 9:00 a.m. until noon.
That's at the Home Depot store on Pearl Drive on the West side and you have to register online. To do so, click here.
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