Because they also serve as the main counsellors in the TAP programme, many of them will be familiar with job search skills training that service men and women received while still in active duty. These organisations sponsor job fairs, offer access to job banks, and provide a potentially rich source of informal employment contacts. Some of them offer transition and benefit counselling. Another veterans' organisation, Disabled American Veterans has written a series of three guides to finding civilian employment. It is free to service members and available to employers who subscribe to the Human Resources Information Network on-line database.
Copies are also available free to clients at some of the service - run job centres.
The magazine reprints help wanted ads from newspapers nation-wide, organising the ads by occupational code and indexing them to MOS codes. Even though the ads are almost 3 weeks old by time the magazine comes out, the publisher reports that over 70 percent of the positions are still open at the time of publication. Although answering help wanted ads is often an unrewarding way to apply for a job, at least it does collect information on the kinds of jobs available in various parts of the country. A special educational option is the New Careers in Teaching initiative, started in 1986 and planned for expansion during the next few years as part of DoDs overall transition assistance programme. The idea is to train service people for teaching careers when they leave military.