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Corporate Partnership Aims to Increase Spouse Jobs
By Victoria Palmer
Army News Service
ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 20, 2003 -- Expanding employment opportunities for Army spouses while fulfilling corporate America's demand for skilled workers was the topic of the Army Spouse Employment Partnership Program working session in Arlington, Va., May 12.
Representatives from 17 corporations were among those who attended the meeting, coordinated by the U.S. Army Community and Family Support Center as a follow up to the Army Spouse Employment Summit hosted by the chief of staff of the Army in December 2002.
This month's meeting began with a welcome by program chairman John McLaurin III, deputy assistant secretary of the Army (Human Resources), who highlighted the qualities and values Army spouses bring to the workplace.
"Army spouses have values extremely important to the private sector," McLaurin said. "They know teamwork, they're flexible, they're dedicated and they know how to get things done."
With the goal to formalize the partnership working group structure, session participants worked together on clarifying the partnership mission, vision statement and goals, and developing guiding principles and action items.
Attendees also met in five work groups: critical success indicators, pilot program development, best practices, strategic communications and Web site development. The groups, each consisting of several corporate partners and an Army subject matter expert, will continue work over the next several months to develop the program.
"We're hoping to kick off the program with signed statements of commitment by corporate partners at the beginning of the new fiscal year in October," said Nancy Whitsett, spouse employment partnership program manager at USACFSC. The program will then be implemented at pilot sites before going Army-wide, Whitsett said.
"This is a phenomenal process, a great project. I can't see how corporate America would lose, nor do I see how the Army could lose with this," said Delores Johnson, family programs director at USACFSC. "This is going to create jobs for spouses and give the corporate community access to a very talented, very diverse labor pool."
The diversity of employable candidates among Army spouses was of key interest to corporate attendees.
"I desperately need bi-lingual," remarked Amy Dobbs, sourcing and recruiting senior manager for Bell South during the meeting general discussion, which elicited agreement from other attendees.
The National Defense Authorization Act of 2002 directed DoD to examine existing spouse employment programs with the goal of improving retention of service members by increasing the employability of their spouses.
Developing partnerships with Fortune 500 companies in close proximity to military installations offers them the opportunity to have a human resource person at each installation through the Army Community Service Employment Readiness Program counselors, said Johnson. The ERP is the Army's spouse employment program; it offers assistance to any spouse wanting to develop a career or become employed.
"Spouses would like to maintain some career stability as they move in support of following their military spouse's career," said Donna Morris, Fort Hood Employment Readiness Program manager and military family member. "This Spouse Employment initiative is definitely going to assist with that," she said.
Ron Nicholl, program manager for Sprint Corporation, said working with the Army is part of Sprint's employee recruiting strategy.
Johnson said she believes the program can be implemented in the quick time frame that the corporate partners are looking for. "Their enthusiasm is unbridled. I love it. It is the most exciting project we've been involved with in a very long time," she said.
The Employment Readiness Program is an activity of the U.S. Army Community and Family Support Center in Alexandria, Va., the headquarters Department of the Army agency responsible for Morale, Welfare, and Recreation, including family programs. Additional information is available at www.armymwr.com.
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