Career Center
Florida Guard Family Career Connections
The Florida National Guard is dedicated to helping unemployed service members find jobs. Working in close collaboration with the Florida Department of Economic Opportunity and their Veteran Employment Representatives, our goal is to connect Florida Guard members with job opportunities statewide.
This Florida Guard Family Career Connections site is designed to assist both deployed and non-deployed Guard members with resources linking them to potential employers. Below are tools to better enable service members to market their professional abilities, including resume writing tools, education institutions where new job skills can be acquired using educational benefits, contact with employers offering current jobs opportunities, and information concerning upcoming job fairs.
If you are a unemployed or underemployed Guardsman or family member, contact the Florida Guard Family Career Connections coordinator at (904) 823-0335.
Florida National Guard employment initiatives:
- Florida Guard family career connection (FGFCC): This program provides a link between employers who offer jobs and Guardsmen who are seeking jobs.
- Battalion Career Counselors: Provides front-line contact for unemployed Guardsmen at the Battalion level and inform unemployed Guardsmen of current job opportunities and upcoming job fairs. Assist Guardsmen with resume writing and other interviewing techniques.
- Operation KickStart: Career coaches who work “one-on-one” with unemployed Guardsmen to connected them with jobs that match their skills. Provides Guardsmen with personalized career and job opportunity counseling and assitance.
- Transition assistance advisors: Assist members of the National Guard and their families in accessing Veterans Affairs benefits and healthcare services in addition to assistance with job search and resources for employment assistance.
- Family Assistance Centers: Work with unit commanders to assist unemployed Guardsmen and their families, disseminate information about upcoming job fairs and workshops to Guardsmen and their families
- Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve: Educate employers and Guardsmen about their rights and responsibilities under the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Act, recognize employers who hire and support Guardsmen
On-Line Services:
- Employ Florida Vets Employ Florida Vets, a state-of-the-art Web site for matching Florida’s job seekers and employers. Get help selecting a new career, finding a new job, and locating suitable education or training.
- Florida Vets First Find information about veteran’s benefits, education and training and other news of interest to veterans.
- One-Stop Career Centers Many of Florida’s One-Stop Career Centers are staffed with professional Disabled Veterans Outreach Program Specialists and Local Veterans Employment Representatives who provide priority workforce services to veterans. Disabled Veterans Outreach Program Specialists provide intensive case management services to veterans who experience barriers to employment, particularly disabled veterans.
- Military Family Employment Advocacy Program The Military Family Employment Advocacy Program provides employment assistance including skills assessment, interviewing, job search and placement assistance and resume-writing assistance for spouses and dependents of active military duty personnel or National Guard reservists.
