{"id":11380,"date":"2016-12-14T16:13:12","date_gmt":"2016-12-14T21:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hireheroesusa.org\/?p=11380"},"modified":"2025-08-21T11:26:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T15:26:06","slug":"hired-veteran-frederick-benson-jr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hireheroesusa.org\/hired-veteran-frederick-benson-jr\/","title":{"rendered":"Hired Veteran Frederick Benson Jr."},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Hired by\u00a0Defense Logistics Health Systems<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">United States Army, E-6<\/span><\/h1>\n<p>My name is Frederick Benson Jr. and I served in the Army for 20 years and 20 days. I separated from <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11381 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/hhusa.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/fred-benson-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"fred-benson\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" title=\"\">service due to military downsizing. In my transition to the workforce, I struggled with presenting my military accomplishments on my resume. I was always taught team and not individualism. I also struggled with interviewing and translating military jargon so the civilian population could understand.<\/p>\n<p>I learned about Hire Heroes USA through a friend after I informed him about my struggles writing a resume. My Hire Heroes USA Transition Specialist guided me with instruction on how a resume should look and provided insight on the interviewing process. He gave me the confidence I needed to empower myself and seek better employment opportunities.<\/p>\n<p>Before Hire Heroes USA, my job search was turning up empty &#8211; no callbacks or interviews. After seeking their guidance and working with a Transition Specialist for two months, I got a job where I help other veterans as a Veterans Evaluation Liaison Officer.\u00a0Hire Heroes USA is an outstanding cause that provides veterans with the training and resources needed to transition from military service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hired by\u00a0Defense Logistics Health Systems United States Army, E-6 My name is Frederick Benson Jr. and I served in the Army for 20 years and 20 days. I separated from service due to military downsizing. In my transition to the workforce, I struggled with presenting my military accomplishments on my resume. I was always taught [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-success-stories"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hireheroesusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hireheroesusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hireheroesusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hireheroesusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hireheroesusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hireheroesusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11380\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hireheroesusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hireheroesusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hireheroesusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}