PNGAS Guard-Friendly Employer Application
The Pennsylvania National Guard Associations (“PNGAS”) is the only organization solely dedicated to the 19,438 members and more than 67,500 veterans of the Pennsylvania National Guard, spouses, and their families. PNGAS activities help ensure the Pennsylvania National Guard is fully funded, manned, equipped, and trained to perform their mission and that members and veterans get the benefits they have earned.  PNGAS operates the PNGAS Job Board to help members get family sustaining jobs: https://pngas.jobboardhq.com/

A PNGAS Guard Friendly Employer:

"A citizen who is good enough to shed their blood for this country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards," paraphrasing Theodore Roosevelt

Many employers recognize, recruit, and use the value, skills and talents provided by military service and training entering the workforce. Likewise, Guard-friendly employers value leadership skills, diversity, commitment, discipline, training, flexibility/adaptability, and the "in-the-trenches/can-do" attitude and work ethic.

A number of employers that recruit employees with military service also have internal Guard, reserve and veterans' programs, enabling and encouraging the success of the veterans they have hired and promoted.

PNGAS has adopted the minimum standards for the PNGAS Guard Friendly Employer designation. While there is zero cost to apply and participate, there is great value, reward and honor in hiring members of the Pennsylvania National Guard, veterans and military families.

To help Guard Friendly Employers with sales, recruiting, and relationship-building, PNGAS will actively promote, market and recognize PNGAS Guard Friendly Employers throughout the year!

Please respond to each question with the number between 0 and 10, that best matches your organization, as follows:
0 - never
3 - sometimes
5 - more often than not
7 - most of the times
10 - all the time

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Email *
What organization do you represent? *
Cut and paste your website, or if applicable your website link to your organization's military/veteran section on your website. (works best if you cut and paste the link from your website)
Who is your organization's official point of contact, address, phone and email?
Has your Company every hired a veteran of the US Military or National Guard?
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Does your Company offer a discount, special pricing or benefits to veterans or members of the US Military or National Guard?
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Does your Company have a hiring priority or contracting priority for or with veterans or members of the US Military or National Guard?
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Does your Company post jobs, review resumes or hire applicants on the PNGAS Job Board?
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In the next 12-months will your Company consider hiring a veteran or member of the US Military or National Guard?
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Does your Company have a policy that protects the employment status of National Guard members who may be mobilized to federal service to perform missions vital to national security and may require service in the homeland or overseas for periods of several months to a year or more?
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Does your Company offer training for your staff and/or partners on how to support military and National Guard members, which may and can include trainings offered by PNGAS at the annual PNGAS conference or a PNGAS Business Breakfast workshops?
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Will your Company post a free job posting on the PNGAS Jobs Board, https://pngas.jobboardhq.com/, or promote the PNGAS Jobs Board on your company website, social media or marketing, or aggressively promote the hiring of members and veterans of the Pennsylvania National Guard on its website and social media?
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When applicable, does your Company support the Work Opportunity Tax Credit (WOTC) program a Federal tax credit that employers can claim when hiring certain target groups, including qualified veterans? *
When applicable, will your Company publish or share with PNGAS, criteria for a wide range of factors that position the company as exceptional place for Guard members and veterans to work, including: Percentage of veterans among new hires  Percentage of veterans retained for 12 months, or more   Overall percentage of veterans among employees   Offering resources to assist new veteran employees in integrating into the company   Offering programs to enhance veteran employee leadership skills
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At least annually, will your Company welcome, allow or conduct a job recruiting event at an Air and/or Army National Guard base, or at one or more of your facilities?
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When applicable, does your Company use veterans and Guard members in the hiring, on-boarding, performance-review, and mentoring process?
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When applicable, does your Company offer a program for hiring veterans and Guard members with disabilities or injuries?
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Does your Company market, publish, promote and articulate its interest and value proposition for hiring Guard Members and veterans?
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Does your Company place Guard members and veterans in meaningful, high-optics positions with the ability for promotions and raises?
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Does your Company have a specific on-boarding program for Guard members and veterans when they are hired?
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Is your Company a corporate sponsor, exhibitor, contributor, or participant in the Pennsylvania National Guard Associations (PNGAS), the Pennsylvania National Guard Foundation, Guard2Guard program, or Gifts4GuardKids program? *
Are your managers trained annually on laws and best practices for assisting Guard members and their family members for deployments; the preparations, actual deployment and post-deployment?
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Does your Company share some or all of the above attributes with spouses and dependents of Guard members and veterans?
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Does your Company have any spouses of veterans or members of the Guard in your workforce?
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Does your Company have any parents of veterans or members of the Guard in your workforce?
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(Optional) Do you have any special programs, incentives or offerings you would like more Guard member to know?
(Optional) Do you have any ideas you would like to share that could help make PNGAS more effective in promoting your organization?
Would you like to receive future updates from PNGAS?  Please note, your email address will NOT be sold or distributed to anyone else. *
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Do you know someone else we should invite to participate?  Can you share their name, organization and email/phone number?
Your Email Address (To prove you are human, avoid multiple submissions, help us validate results) Your email address will NOT be sold or distributed! *
Your Phone Number
On behalf of Chad Rettew, Chairman, Board of Directors,  PNGAS; Kathleen Fabrizi, Executive Director, PNGAS; and Wilbur E. Wolf, III, Brigadier General (Retired), US Army, Chairman of the PNGAS Business Action Council (PNGAS-BAC), we want to especially thank everyone that contributed to the development of the PNGAS Guard Friendly Employer designation.  Thank you!
Thank you from PNGAS
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