STEM Veterans USA

STEM Veterans USA is a nonprofit whose mission is to connect veterans in STEM with opportunity through Employment, Outreach, Research, and Networking. Companies have programs designed to recruit and hire veterans with tech skills from their service, tech skills obtained using their GI Bill benefits, STEM degrees, and veterans with industry experience. However, companies have a limit to their recruitment resources and can only reach a certain number of potential candidates. Student veterans must balance their personal lives with their scholastic responsibilities and have limited time and resources to find internships, scholarships, research opportunities, and networking opportunities. Internships are a crucial component of a student’s professional portfolio to help them secure employment upon graduating. Many entry-level jobs are given to students that have completed an internship since the company was able to evaluate the student without going through the full-time hiring process. Many transitioning veterans have specific and in-depth technical training and skills from their service and these veterans are highly sought after by companies. Veterans also may use their GI Bill benefits to pursue technical degrees instead of 4-year STEM degrees and these veterans are extremely valuable to companies as well. These technical programs are very intense and time-consuming and they have limited time and resources to find new hire positions. There are many veterans with technical skills and STEM education that have been in industry and are considered experienced candidates. These veterans are still vigorously sought after by companies as well.