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how their skills in the military transitions into the retail
job force.”
The Home Depot’s Website is also designed to include
a Military Careers page that provides veterans transitioning assistance right online, Frazier noted.
“The Home Depot is an Equal Opportunity Employer
and we always have job openings whether you have
served in the military or not,” he said. “When people
apply here we are not specifically saying, ‘you are military, so you’re hired.’ The qualifications are still necessary for the job at hand. However, if we find during our
interview process that person has skills
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that we can work with and develop we might refer
them to one of our military training workshops to help
them along.”
For veterans, like Jacobsen, these military hiring initiatives provide service men and women opportunities
for employment and vocational direction.
“It gives you a good feeling that people do care and
I think Home Depot has done an exceptional job with
our military people,” Jacobsen said.