{"id":9717,"date":"2015-10-29T10:34:30","date_gmt":"2015-10-29T14:34:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hireheroesusa.org\/?p=9717"},"modified":"2025-08-21T11:18:45","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T15:18:45","slug":"hired-veteran-jessica-crum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hireheroesusa.org\/hired-veteran-jessica-crum\/","title":{"rendered":"Hired Veteran Jessica Crum"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>Hired as an Auto Claims Adjuster at USAA<br \/>\nUnited States Army, E-6, Human Resources<\/b><\/span><\/h1>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hireheroesusa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Jessica-Crum-scaled-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-9718\" src=\"https:\/\/hhusa.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Jessica-Crum-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Jessica Crum\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" title=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The biggest challenge for me during my transition was the fact that we were moving to a new location after separating from the military. I found that employers were less likely to take you seriously with an out-of-state address. Many were hesitant to provide a telephone interview in lieu of an in-person interview, and when I did travel for interviews, it was a lot of coordination and money.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I first connected with Hire Heroes USA at a Transition Workshop held on base at Fort Bragg. My Veteran Transition Specialist (VTS) spoke with me about the difficulties I was having, and he was quick to offer ideas and helpful tips to overcome the challenges. I left the workshop with a revised resume that incorporated his suggestions and a new outlook on finding employment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">We remained in touch throughout my job search, and he continued to check in on me. Knowing that I had my VTS and Hire Heroes USA in my corner to assist me was great. Now I have a great new job in the city I want to live in. Without a doubt, I recommend transitioning soldiers work with Hire Heroes USA. Thank you all!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hired as an Auto Claims Adjuster at USAA United States Army, E-6, Human Resources The biggest challenge for me during my transition was the fact that we were moving to a new location after separating from the military. I found that employers were less likely to take you seriously with an out-of-state address. Many were [&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-9717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-success-stories"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hireheroesusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9717","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=9717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hireheroesusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9717\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hireheroesusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hireheroesusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hireheroesusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}