Outsource Your Veterans!

EZine Articles ^ | March 10, 2007 | Pat Kiggins

[2ndDivisionVet]

Corporate America is missing a HUGE opportunity! Most companies, regardless of the improved economy, are still searching for ways to reduce their costs and become more competitive.

Many companies have outsourced several functions to reduce costs. Of course, the most obvious outsourcing activity has been the customer relations call centers. How many of us have tried to call a customer service number only to find that we have difficulty understanding the person at the other end of the line.

Now, here’s the opportunity that has been wasted. The largest customer for most of our Fortune 1000 companies is the Federal Government. Ask any of them and they will tell you that each one offers their “most favored” pricing to the Government. Even when jobs were scarce, many companies still recruited skilled sales people who knew how to sell to the government.

Many of those job requisitions preferred a military background. Of course, most of those same companies have Veterans on their payroll, yet they overlook the obvious.

Now, for the “profound” mistake made by all of those companies: They should “outsource” their Veterans!

[mountainlyons]

I really do not know exactly what he is talking about but I think the Government does an outstanding job of hiring, training and caring for Veterans. Why cheapen the process and short change the Veterans again.

Welcome home Vets!!

[ALOHA RONNIE]

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NEVER FORGET



The Words
http://www.Freerepublic.com/~ALOHARONNIE


The Pictures
http://www.RickRescorla.com/The%20Statue.htm


The Heroism
http://www.ArmchairGeneral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=24361

http://www.ArmchairGeneral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=48215



NEVER FORGET

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[Rane _H]

I believe the very reason they hire veterans or people with other government backgrounds is because they have a knowledge of how their previous employer operates. Hiring a foreign person who lacks that knowledge would not serve the purpose of the job. The article seems rather uninformed or it is satire.

[2ndDivisionVet]

I think he is trying to get companies to set up their employess (who happen to be military veterans) in a business of their own and buy from them.

[conservativeharleyguy]

You should read the article before you jump to that conclusion.

What he's talking about is having Fortune 1000 companies "incubate" veteran-owned subsidiaries, staffed and managed by their employees (or former employees, if it's to be a separate entity) who are veterans.

It's actually a great idea.

My colleague and I recently suggested pretty much the same thing to our Fortune 1000 employer, and were soundly rebuffed. So, to thank them, we've started our own company, and are now pursuing the contracts they thought were too small for a company of their "stature".

[El Gato]

Companies have been doing this with woman/minority "owned" businesses for a long time. No reason not to do it with Veterans too. Except... many veterans have seen the ill effects of giving business to contractors based on such quota systems, and may want nothing do with such nefarious practices.

If there is some positive benefit to the government to be gained by the practice, fine do it, but not as just more social engineering, regardless of who it is intended to benefit.

I suspect veteran owned businesses would have no problem competing, if given a level playing field. Many veterans are women and minorities of course, but most "women/minority owned" businesses are not run or owned by veterans, or any other competent sort of folks.

[familyop]

Outsource your employers.

[kellynla]

If anyone has been to the Post Office lately, they sure haven't "reached out" to the military veterans lately.

Half of the employees don't even speak good English and the other half don't have a clue of what they're doing. LOL

I had some clown delivering the mail on my street and the mail he delivered to my house wasn't even the right street much less the right street number...
and when I approached him, he couldn't even communicate in English!!!

Same thing at the banks...half don't speak good English and the other half don't know what they're doing...they should bring the ATM's inside and put the clowns out the door!

[mountainlyons]

You should read the article before you jump to that conclusion.

I did not read the article because the part posted made no sense, it was not clear so why bother with the article?

[conservativeharleyguy]

"...I did not read the article because the part posted made no sense, it was not clear so why bother with the article?..."

Why bother to read the article?

Probably so you won't post an uninformed opinion.

[mountainlyons]

So I read the article and they still did not explain outsource. They danced all around it but did not explain much. I am a veteran myself and support veterans myself but I am not an economists and do not write over other peoples heads to cause confusion. An explanation of how they are using outsourcing and make the article sound less like someone using the veterans would make a better article.

[conservativeharleyguy]

Now that's reasonable.

The basic premise of the article is that Fortune 1000 companies should take advantage of the fact that a lot of their employees are probably veterans, and sponsor their veterans in the formation of veteran-owned businesses to help them (both the corporations and the veterans) do business with the federal government.

That way, the corporations get credit with the feds for doing business with small, veteran owned businesses, and the veterans get help starting and running business that provide goods/services that the feds need, plus make money for them, and provide jobs (hopefully for other veterans).

I personally think it's a great idea, and tried to get my company to do the same thing. They declined. So, I'm starting my own w/o their help.