ARMY CAREER & ALUMNI PROGRAM

Helpful Hints

EMPLOYERS WHO WANT TO HIRE VETERANS

Your company can become an ACAP Employer Partner and have free, easy access to transitioning Soldiers and veterans by taking a few minutes to register with EMPLOYERS WHO WANT TO HIRE VETERANS. A completed registration lists your company on ACAP On-Line, the Army’s official transition website, and makes it easy for you to advertise job opportunities and reach qualified job seekers.

EMPLOYERS WHO WANT TO HIRE VETERANS enables Soldiers to easily browse or search registered companies on ACAP On-Line and link to job opportunities listed on company hiring pages. Because jobs are maintained on the company’s website, employers are not required to add their jobs to a second ACAP On-Line database. Soldiers apply for jobs by submitting resumes or applications directly to the employer’s hiring web page. ACAP On-Line does not host a resume database. Therefore, Soldiers do not post resumes on the Army's website and employers cannot search a database of candidate resumes.

Once accepted, employers only need to maintain their ACAP On-Line registration.

This Employers Guide was designed to simplify the registration process by providing additional information and helpful hints.

To start, go to www.acap.army.mil and select Employers. Click Registration, then New.

REGISTRATION

To register, first enter the name of your company. The name should be the company’s official name and communicate clearly to job seekers. If your company operates in more than one location, browse the EMPLOYERS WHO WANT TO HIRE VETERANS listing at Employment Assistance > Jobs to determine if the company already is registered. If so, consider adding your location, division, business unit or business focus, etc., to the name to further identify your company listing (e.g., Bell South – Southeast Region).

Briefly describe your company’s business line, products or services. Provide enough information to interest job seekers in what your company offers. You have only 300 characters for your description, including spaces and punctuation, so be concise yet complete. A counter helps you monitor the number of characters you have left. If you copy and paste a description from an official company source such as a website or marketing material, be sure the entire description is included and that no text has been left off. Also, special characters, such as apostrophes, do not copy and paste correctly, so avoid using them.

Enter the URL of your company’s hiring web page. The goal of EMPLOYERS WHO WANT TO HIRE VETERANS is to take job seekers directly from ACAP On-Line to employment opportunities shown on company websites, not your company’s Home page. Hiring web pages usually are located on company websites at Careers, Employment, Career Opportunities, Job Seekers, etc., and can have long URLs. The URL you register as your company’s hiring web page cannot contain more than 120 characters. (See FAQ #8 below.)

Next, select locations and occupations to create the search criteria Soldiers will use to retrieve your company. - If your company has jobs in one or more states or territories, choose Select States and Territories and all locations where the company has employment opportunities. - If your company has jobs in every state, select U.S. - If your company has jobs overseas, select U.S. and Foreign Countries.

Select the occupations for which your company or business unit generally hires or currently is hiring. The occupational categories are broad and encompass many jobs, so review the list carefully before you make your selections. As jobs close or new opportunities become available, you can modify your registration.When defining their search, job seekers select from the same locations and occupations you did when you registered. For example, they select a location where they want to work (South Carolina) and a career field in which they are interested (Aviation). If, when you registered your company, you selected these two criteria, the search will retrieve your company’s listing and take the job seeker to opportunities on your company’s hiring web page. Job seekers also can browse EMPLOYERS WHO WANT TO HIRE VETERANS to find your listing.To view your registration as job seekers see it, go to www.acap.army.mil, select Employment Assistance then Jobs and EMPLOYERS WHO WANT TO HIRE VETERANS. From this page, you can Browse by Company or Search by Location and Occupation.

Provide Point of Contact information. This information is not seen by job seekers and is used by ACAP to provide automated status updates or for official EMPLOYERS WHO WANT TO HIRE VETERANS business. Be sure to include your Area Code with your phone number.

Submit your registration. Submitted registrations are reviewed and accepted, usually within 72 hours. - Accepted employer registrations receive the following message: Your registration has been accepted and a link to your company’s hiring website now appears on ACAP On-Line. Soldiers will be able to use the occupation and location criteria you selected to search for your company and follow a link to your hiring website. This reply is being sent from ACAP On-Line’s automated messaging system. If you have questions about your submission, please send all inquiries to ACAPEmployers@serco-na.com. Thank you for using the ACAP EMPLOYERS WHO WANT TO HIRE VETERANS website.- Employer registrations that are not accepted receive the following message: Your registration does not currently meet ACAP On-Line requirements. Further information follows: (Reason included here.) This reply is being sent from ACAP On-Line’s automated messaging system. If you have questions about your submission, please send all inquiries to ACAPEmployers@serco-na.com.. Thank you for using the ACAP EMPLOYERS WHO WANT TO HIRE VETERANS website. Employers are not able to modify or delete their registration themselves; however, you can request assistance or a change at any time by sending an email message to ACAPEmployers@serco-na.com..