Agero Partners with Hire-A-Hero to Offer Service Providers a Great Incentive to Hire Veterans

Agero has partnered with Hire-A-Hero, a nationwide resource that connects unemployed veterans with job opportunities to help them re-integrate back into the civilian workforce. 

As an Agero Service Provider, all you have to do is donate $5.00 to the Armed Forces Support Foundation for each 30-day job opening you post at Agero’s Hire-A-Hero job portal:

HireAHero.Agero.com

Normally, these listings can cost hundreds of dollars, but Agero has agreed to subsidize the cost to make posting a Hire-A-Hero ad more affordable.

It’s easy to start posting your jobs!

• Go to HireAHero.Agero.com and click Create Account and fill out the registration form and provide your Vendor ID.
• Create your company profile by clicking Edit Company Profile under the My Tools tab.
• Click Post a Job  and then Buy Now for the $5 donation
•  Fill out the Job Details form fully because this is the information that Veterans will use to find and apply to your job posting.

Once you have reached the Job Cart screen be sure to add posting for all of your target markets by clicking Post a Job and following the same steps above.

Once you have all you jobs created proceed with the Checkout process.

·         Once you have create and successfully posted you jobs you will be able to quickly copy them and simply go and pay the donation fee once a month to keep them active for 30 days.

Then you will be receiving applications from Veterans in no time.

So why should you hire a veteran?

**The personal qualities they bring:

·         Leadership

·         Teamwork

·         Diversity and inclusion in action

·         Efficient performance under pressure

·         Respect for procedures

·         Technology and globalization

·         Integrity

·         Consciousness of health and safety standards

**Two new tax benefits signed into law in November, 2011:

The Returning Heroes Tax Credit is a new hiring tax credit that will provide an incentive for businesses to hire unemployed veterans.

• Short-term unemployed: A new credit of 40 percent of the first $6,000 of wages (up to   $2,400) for employers who hire veterans who have been unemployed at least 4 weeks.
• Long-term unemployed: A new credit of 40 percent of the first $14,000 of wages (up to $5,600) for employers who hire veterans who have been unemployed longer than 6 months.

The Wounded Warrior Tax Credit will double the existing tax credit for long-term unemployed veterans with service-connected disabilities.

• Maintain the existing Work Opportunity Tax Credit for veterans with service-connected disabilities (currently the maximum is $4,800).
• A new credit of 40 percent of the first $24,000 of wages (up to $9,600) for firms that hire veterans with service-connected disabilities who have been unemployed longer than 6 months.

Tax info source: www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2011/11/21/fact-sheet-returning-heroes-and-wounded-warrior-tax-credits