How to Add Job Openings to the Veterans Job Bank

If you have any questions about the Veterans Job Bank, please contact info@NRD.gov.

Step 1 – Determine if your jobs are already on the Veterans Job Bank

Your company’s jobs may already have been picked up by SimplyHired or one of our other job aggregator partners. Please search for your jobs on the Veterans Job Bank to confirm that they are not already listed.

Step 2 – Determine where your jobs are posted online

Organizations post jobs online in a variety of ways. The first step in making your jobs available on the Veterans Job Bank is to determine where your jobs are posted online. Ask yourself two questions:

1. Does my company have a careers page?  If so, how are jobs posted to the careers page?  What software tools are used to post the jobs?
2. Does my company post jobs on an external job board? 

Once you have identified where your jobs are posted, you can begin the process of making them available on the Veterans Job Bank.

The Veterans Job Bank uses a Google Custom Search Engine (CSE) that crawls the Internet and includes those pages that contain the Veterans Job Bank HTML schema in the search results. To have your jobs added to the Veterans Job Bank, the jobs must be “marked up” (or tagged) with the Veterans Job Bank HTML code on the pages where they are posted. The search engine will then identify and return those tagged jobs to users as they perform a search on the Veterans Job Bank.

Organizations that have a careers page, which details open positions, can apply the code to each Veteran- committed job listed on those pages. If your jobs are listed on sites such as Monster, LinkedIn or SimplyHired, you will need to contact those job boards to ensure that each job is tagged appropriately.

We currently do not have the capability to include job openings for organizations that do not post their jobs online. We are working on developing a mechanism to facilitate those requests in the future.

Step 3 – Apply the code

Having located your jobs, the next step in the process is applying the code found on our Instructions for Tagging Your Jobs page. These steps will need to be completed by your IT department or webmaster as they require advanced HTML knowledge.

**Step 4 VERY IMPORTANT – Contact us to let us know the markup process is complete

Send an email to info@NRD.gov with the domain name of your site where the jobs appear so it can be included in the Veterans Job Bank search results. Once we have verified the code tagging, it may take up to 48 hours for your jobs to begin showing up on the Veterans Job Bank.