Force Multiplier
veteran hiring system
veteran hiring system
Every number below is sourced in the footnotes, so you can check the math against your own invoices. No vendor is named and none is disparaged. Each option does something real. The question is what you pay and what you own afterward.
A posting channel. It gives you reach into veterans who are actively searching, and the good boards deliver real applicants. What it delivers ends there: applicants who happened to find you.
No warm channels into transitioning service members, no retention structure once someone starts, and nothing you own when the posting expires. You rent visibility one posting at a time.
Speed for a single hard role, and you pay only on placement. On a $65,000 role that invoice runs $13,000 to $16,250, and it arrives again for the next hire, and the one after that.
The candidate relationship and the sourcing channel belong to the recruiter. When the engagement ends, so does your pipeline.
Full ownership, and it works if someone on your team has the map. SHRM benchmarks average cost per hire near $4,700, and SHRM's 2025 cycle puts non-executive roles at $5,475. The larger cost is time: learning which of the seven building blocks come first, which federal programs are warm channels, and which paperwork actually matters.
Most teams spend their first year rediscovering sequencing that a practitioner already knows.
The program itself, built with you and owned by you. Subscribe to Pro and Dean Nemecek, SHRM-SCP, retired Army LTC, who built the veteran hiring programs at Trek and Clarios, reaches out within 24 hours to set your first consult, 30 to 45 minutes mapped to your open reqs.
Behind it sits data no one else publishes: state SkillBridge lists verified by hand against the full DoD registry of 6,159 authorized organizations, with MOU expiration dates and a pull date on every list. Check any name against skillbridge.osd.mil.
Twelve months of Pro costs $5,988, and a small shop can start self-serve at $199/mo. The channels it builds, PaYS, SkillBridge, ESGR, VetJobs, are free federal programs you keep after you cancel.
One placement: $13,000 to $16,250. Twelve months of Pro: $5,988. Twelve months of Starter: $2,388.
A program that produces two veteran hires a year through warm channels covers its own cost several times over, before the retention advantage and before any tax credit. Run your own numbers with the free scan below.
1. Contingency fees for mid-level roles typically run 20 to 25 percent of first-year salary, within an industry-standard 15 to 30 percent range. See Recruiters LineUp, contingency fee structure guide and ISG Partners, 2026 cost comparison. Example: $65,000 × 20% = $13,000; × 25% = $16,250.
2. SHRM benchmarking on recruiting costs: SHRM, The Real Costs of Recruitment (average cost per hire near $4,700). SHRM's 2025 benchmarking cycle reports $5,475 for non-executive roles.
Comparisons are category level. Fees and results vary by provider, role, and market. Sources pulled July 2026.