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25 TOP COMPANIES
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PDJ’s Top 25 Most Influential Companies for Veteran Hiring are organizations that are out in front when it comes to providing support for returning veterans. See how they’re using new technologies and old-fashioned outreach to help veterans find success and feel at home in the civilian workplace.
HEROES AT WORK Learn how companies and their veteran
employees, along with nonprofit groups, are helping to ease the transition from the military to the civilian workforce. 38 Accenture’s Operation: Employment 40 Many Hills to Climb: The story of Lt. La’Shanda Holmes 42 Workplace Readiness–F. Chase Hawkins 46 Leader Prototypes and Assimilation–Col. Robert M. Mundell, U.S. Army 52 Collaborative Effort, Amplified Progress: U.S. Chamber of Commerce
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A LEGACY OF LEADERSHIP It’s Black Heritage Month, and PDJ is celebrating the achievements of some outstanding African-American professionals who have followed Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s exhortation to find a way to “keep moving forward” no matter what. Their powerful stories of commitment and purpose will inspire you.
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January/February 2014