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CPAmerica Advantage Filling a need Military spouses often face unique challenges when presented with furthering their careers during a deployment. A survey of military families released in June 2017 from Hiring Our Heroes, a U.S. Chamber of Commerce foundation, found that unemployment and
underemployment are major challenges for spouses of service members, of which 92 percent are female. The military spouse unemployment rate is between 20 to 25 percent, six times the rate for all adult women. We spoke to Erin Kidd, tax individual practice program manager at CPAmerica member firm , based in Fairfax, Va., about her experience dealing with organizations working to help connect military spouses with jobs. As a military spouse that runs a military spouse remote preparer program, Kidd is a big believer in the military spouse community as a great resource
February 2018 for employers to find team members, both full- and part-time, and a perfect fit for available positions.
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CPAmerica noted how it seems as if there are a variety of services available for military spouses to find employment Celebrating 40 years of Improving such as: MadSkills (www.hiremadskills. Through Sharing at CPAmerica com); In Gear Career (www.ingearcareer. org); and Serving Talent (www.servingtalent.com); and we wondered what the differences and similarities between these organizations were. Kidd remarked, “In Gear Career (now Hiring our Heroes - Military Spouse Professional Network) is a nonprofit and was started by three military spouses. They ended up linking with Hiring Our Heroes (a nationwide initiative to help vetAbove, l. to r.: Former CPAmerica erans and military spouses find employment President Doug Thompson (1992turns over the reins of opportunities) and work with local Chamber 2009) CPAmerica to current President of Commerce chapters. It’s basically a com- Alan Deichler in 2009. munity of career-minded spouses. They are set up with a chapter lead at various military installations around the world and a virtual chapter on Facebook for those that are not near an installation. See Military Spouses, continued on page 2
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