{"id":9846,"date":"2015-11-12T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-11-12T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hireheroesusa.org\/?p=9846"},"modified":"2025-08-21T11:31:01","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T15:31:01","slug":"hired-veteran-daniel-blando","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hireheroesusa.org\/hired-veteran-daniel-blando\/","title":{"rendered":"Hired Veteran Daniel Blando"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>Hired as a Financial Analyst with Cintas in Fayetteville, NC<br \/>\nUnited States Army, E-5, Infantryman<\/b><\/span><\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-9633 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/hhusa.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/USArmyc1-300x300.png\" alt=\"USArmyc1\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" title=\"\">I separated from the United States Army in 2012, after serving for six years as an E-5, 11B Infantryman, including multiple deployments to Iraq and Kuwait. As a full-time father in Fayetteville, North Carolina, I pursued a Bachelor\u2019s of Science in Accounting at the University of North Carolina, and sought civilian employment for additional income until I finished my degree. After registering for services with Hire Heroes USA, I was paired with a Veteran Transition Specialist (VTS) to help me craft a civilian resume that translated my military experience.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">My existing resume was broken and made no sense to anyone who wasn\u2019t in the military. <strong>Having been an Infantryman himself, my VTS helped me translated my experience and highlight my accomplishments in leadership and risk management.<\/strong> His advice on how to approach the civilian job search helped me find a job based on my attributes and career goals, not my history. After working with Hire Heroes USA for three months, I was offered a Financial Analyst position with Cintas. <strong>Working with Hire Heroes USA was an amazing experience, and I know my Veteran Transition Specialist and I will remain in touch.<\/strong> I\u2019m so grateful, thank you!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hired as a Financial Analyst with Cintas in Fayetteville, NC United States Army, E-5, Infantryman I separated from the United States Army in 2012, after serving for six years as an E-5, 11B Infantryman, including multiple deployments to Iraq and Kuwait. As a full-time father in Fayetteville, North Carolina, I pursued a Bachelor\u2019s of Science [&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-9846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-success-stories"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hireheroesusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9846","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=9846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hireheroesusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9846\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hireheroesusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hireheroesusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hireheroesusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}