Military Spouses: How to Recruit and Retain This Talent Pool To Benefit Your Workforce

Military Spouses:  How to Recruit and Retain This Talent Pool To Benefit Your Workforce

Presented by: Olivia Burley

This workshop for area businesses and organizations will provide hands-on resources and tools to develop recruitment and retention programs to engage military spouses to develop your workforce. We’ll touch on these topics and a few more:

• Bridging the Military/Civilian Divide by Understanding the Culture
• Understanding the Military Spouse Community and Culture
• Recruiting Strategies for Finding Military Spouse Talent
• Engaging the Military Spouse Workforce Within Your Organization
• Retaining Military Spouse Talent

Learning  Objectives:

• Understanding the Military Spouse Community and Culture
• Recruitment Strategies for Finding Military Spouse Talent
• Engaging the Military Spouse Workforce Within Your Organization
• Retaining Military Spouse Talent
  

Presenter's Bio:

As Washington’s Military Spouse Liaison, Olivia Burley is part of your Washington State Department of Veterans Affairs team. In her role, she is focused on reducing and removing employment barriers for the military spouse community and ensuring resource information distribution to military spouses. She has been a military spouse for 20 years and is the daughter of dual-military parents. Prior to joining WDVA, Olivia worked for Operation Homefront and the American Red Cross, providing services to support military families and service members.

Mark your calendars for Thursday, 10/06/2022 from 11:30 am to 1:00 pm for this presentation.

Zoom webinar details will be emailed separately after registration and prior to the event.

FREE for SHRM/SIHRMA members. 

$15 for future members (non-members). 

Meeting agenda: 

11:30 Webcast opens

11:40 Announcements

12:00 Presentation