Quality Careers for America’s Military Veterans
Helmets to Hardhats is a national, federally-funded program that exists to connect National Guard, Reserve and transitioning active-duty military members with quality career training and employment opportunities within the building and construction industry.
The program is sponsored by the fifteen unions of the building and construction trades, along with construction industry employer associations.
The program is designed ease the difficult passage back into civilian life for military families, providing lucrative career opportunities and economic security to those who have earned the promise of a nation for their years of dedicated service.
Helmets to Hardhats collects nationwide career opportunities within the building and construction industry and matches that data to former military personnel interested in a career within the industry. Interested candidates can access information about careers and apprenticeships, and fill out a formal application and profile, via the Internet from anywhere in the world.
With the implementation of dozens of Statewide Direct Entry programs, Helmets to Hardhats candidates are able to get into quality construction careers soon after applying for them. Once a state proclamation has been signed – and over 20 states have already signed on – it allows all Joint Apprenticeship Training Councils and Local Unions in the state to accept current and former military personnel into their training programs on a prioritized basis, as well as providing credit for military training and experience.
Interested military candidates need only to log on to the Helmets to Hardhats web site at www.helmetstohardhats.org and follow the instructions for filing an online application and profile. All candidates will then be contacted by a representative from the Helmets to Hardhats who will begin the process of matching them with an appropriate apprenticeship training program in a location and the field of interest expressed through the applicant’s profile. Prior experience with a particular craft or trade is not necessary.
Providing stable, secure, and prosperous civilian careers for the men and women who serve in the military is the foundation of the American promise to its veterans.
Helmets to Hardhats is all about standing up for what’s right…and it’s the story of how an entire industry has come together not just to reward those who have bravely served this nation with dedication, honor and courage, but to enlist those same veterans to put their military training, values and discipline to work in carrying out a new mission for America.
www.helmetstohardhats.org