A few days late for Vet's Day (which I wish, by the way, to all vets on this board), but I wanted to pass this on, fyi: Top 25 Military-Friendly Fortune 500 employers 1. Home Depot 2. Sprint 3. General Electric 4. Brinks 5. Johnson Controls 6. Union Pacific 7. Lockheed Martin 8. American Electric Power 9. USAA 10. Electronic Data Systems 11. Georgia Pacific 12. Manpower 13. Merrill Lynch 14. Coca-Cola 15. Honeywell 16. Grainger 17. Exxon Mobil 18. SBC Communications 19. Bell South 20. First Data 21. HSBC 22. MGM Mirage 23. Arvin Meritor 24. MBNA 25. BD This was published by http://www.gijobs.net (go to their site for the free pdf download of the article on this). Rankings were determined by the following weighting scheme: 40% percentage of total recruiting resources dedicated to hiring transitioning military and veterans 25% company policies on reserve and guard duty 20% percentage of new hires over the past year who were military veterans 15% internal military and veteran recruiting/training/promotional programs, plus community involvement Just thought I'd share. Cheers, Adrienne
Make no doubt about it - EDS is not a friendly company for ANYONE! After Perot left, the caretakers took it for all it is worth. Home Depot is a low paid sweatshot in the same catagory as WalMart (come on ex-Ranger, you can do better than this!) Lockheed: They don't call it the lazy L for nothin'! SBC: You too can get laid off.. (and get hired back the same day as a contractor). Exxon and Johnson Controls: Two of the best on the list.
It's hard for me to believe that Haliburton didn't show up on this list. After all, Haliburton IS the military, no? Jack
