Walmart announces 14,000 veterans hired in Florida

Reaches the sixth anniversary of "Veterans Welcome Home" commitment

Walmart this week celebrated the 6th anniversary of its Veterans Welcome Home Commitment with the announcement of more than 226,000 veteran hires since its launch in 2013, including more than 14,000 in Florida. The Veterans Welcome Home Commitment guarantees a job offer to any eligible, honorably discharged U.S. veteran.

“Veterans bring their strong value systems and capable leadership to our business,” said Retired Brigadier General Gary Profit, senior director of military programs for Walmart. “Our military veteran associates are talented and dedicated, and they make us better. As a veteran myself, I am proud that Walmart offers career programs for veterans and military families: If you serve and sacrifice for your country, you shouldn’t have to fight for a job at home.”

Walmart and the Walmart Foundation have a long history of supporting service members, veterans and their families. In addition to the celebration of more than 226,000 veteran hires nationwide, Walmart is also celebrating the first milestone in its Military Spouse Career Connection, a new hiring initiative announced in 2018 aimed at military spouses. To date, Walmart has hired nearly 6,000 military spouses.

“Our veterans have done so much for this country, and we’re proud to offer them a job on our team here in Florida,” said Elise Vasquez-Warner, a vice president and regional general manager for Walmart in Florida. “But just as important are spouses of our service members. They are the unsung heroes of our military. That’s why we recently pledged to make hiring spouses a key priority. Seeing these first numbers reported shows just how serious we are about this effort.”

These milestones are underscored by the additional announcement by the Walmart Foundation of a $1 million grant to Hire Heroes USA to support their efforts to expand their own programs, improve data collection and reporting. Notably, a portion of the funding will support a Program Manager for Hire Heroes’ Serving Spouses Program, a career coaching program tailored specifically to military spouses who face unique barriers to employment such as frequent moves, child care challenges while a spouse is deployed and having to re-obtain certifications that don’t transfer from state to state.

For more information about Walmart’s commitment to veterans, service members and military families, please visit: http://www.walmartcareerswithamission.com/ or http://corporate.walmart.com/global-responsibility/veterans-military-families/ and follow on Twitter @WalmartToday.