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Status Of Forces Agreements (Sofas) Overseas: A Portability Roadmap For Military Spouses And Their Employers, Deborah A. Bradbard, Amber Pitoniak, Rosalinda V. Maury, Rachel Linsner
Status Of Forces Agreements (Sofas) Overseas: A Portability Roadmap For Military Spouses And Their Employers, Deborah A. Bradbard, Amber Pitoniak, Rosalinda V. Maury, Rachel Linsner
Institute for Veterans and Military Families
Within military families, military spouse employment also positively impacts service member retention. Like their civilian counterparts, military spouses often want and need to work. But, unlike most civilians, military spouses may relocate overseas where their employment options are influenced by diplomatic agreements called Status of Forces Agreements (SOFAs). As a result, SOFAs may present unanticipated and sometimes insurmountable barriers to military spouses who wish to work after relocating overseas. This paper gives insights to the military spouse as well as their employer.
Helping Military Spouses Find Careers That Move With Them, Deborah A. Bradbard, Rachel Linsner, Rosalinda V. Maury, Amber Pitoniak
Helping Military Spouses Find Careers That Move With Them, Deborah A. Bradbard, Rachel Linsner, Rosalinda V. Maury, Amber Pitoniak
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This paper focuses on job portability and what employers can do to not only recruit but also retain military spouse employees when they relocate. This study defines job portability, identifies gaps, and offers guidance to military spouses and potential employers. In collaboration with Prudential Financial, Inc. (NYSE:PRU), Helping Military Spouses Find Careers that Move with Them is #6 in a series of research products, focused on military spouse employment. This paper explores, barriers to sustained employment related to relocation and job portability, the essential role employers play in ensuring a workplace is “military spouse friendly,” how employers can benefit from …
The Force Behind The Force: Case Profiles Of Successful Military Spouses Balancing Employment, Service, And Family, Deborah A. Bradbard, Rosalinda V. Maury, Nicholas Armstrong
The Force Behind The Force: Case Profiles Of Successful Military Spouses Balancing Employment, Service, And Family, Deborah A. Bradbard, Rosalinda V. Maury, Nicholas Armstrong
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The second brief of this series highlights eight successful military spouses currently employed in the corporate workforce. Through the detailed conversations, the reader begins to understand the employment challenges military spouses face (i.e., deployments along with frequent relocation), how these challenges impact their work histories and resumes, and how standard methods of finding and getting a job (through a traditional resume or standard screening process) eliminate many military spouses even before they have had the opportunity to compete. The paper also offers suggestions and simple strategies employers can (1) assess military spouse candidates and (2) help military spouses through training …
Paper 3: Workforce Readiness Alignment: The Relationship Between Job Preferences, Retention, And Earnings, Rosalinda Maury, Brice M. Stone, Deborah A. Bradbard, Nicholas Armstrong, J. Michael Haynie
Paper 3: Workforce Readiness Alignment: The Relationship Between Job Preferences, Retention, And Earnings, Rosalinda Maury, Brice M. Stone, Deborah A. Bradbard, Nicholas Armstrong, J. Michael Haynie
Institute for Veterans and Military Families
This paper focuses on testing propositions related to workforce readiness by examining the relationship between job preferences, military conferred skills, and a variety of outcome measures including retention, income, and perceptions about transition.
The Force Behind The Force: A Business Case For Leveraging Military Spouse Talent, Deborah A. Bradbard, Rosalinda V. Maury, Nicholas Armstrong
The Force Behind The Force: A Business Case For Leveraging Military Spouse Talent, Deborah A. Bradbard, Rosalinda V. Maury, Nicholas Armstrong
Institute for Veterans and Military Families
Companies interested in hiring transitioning service members and veterans may not intuitively understand the business case for hiring military family members—or even that the business case for hiring spouses is unique. Certainly, a spouse focused business case may share some similarities with that of a transitioning service member or veteran. But companies should not assume they are identical. Because there is limited research and data available about the employment of military spouses, a targeted business case has never been fully articulated. In this paper we review some of the available research and outline a business case for hiring military spouse …