ZipRecruiter and the Call of Duty Endowment Release National Report on State of Veteran Employment Activity

ZipRecruiter, the fastest-growing online employment marketplace, and the Call of Duty™ Endowment (“the Endowment”), a nonprofit foundation that has helped more than 40,000 veterans find high-quality employment, today announced the release of a national report examining the current state of U.S. veteran employment activity. Pulling from the tens of millions of active jobseekers on the ZipRecruiter platform, co-authors Cathy Barrera (ZipRecruiter chief economist) and Phillip Carter (Endowment adviser and veterans policy expert) analyzed the resume data of more than six million job seekers (547,941 of whom were veterans), and found that veteran job seekers are still struggling to find meaningful employment after service – with nearly one-third experiencing what they defined as “underemployment,” or employment below their objective skill level. This is despite the fact that the most commonly referenced economic indicator – namely, the unemployment rate released each month by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics – shows veterans as doing better than non-veterans in the job market. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]