WOONSOCKET – CVS Health Corp. opened a Talent Connect Center in Fort Bragg, NC to serve the military and veteran community of the area in their transition from military life, the company announced Thursday.
A part of the Fort Bragg Career Resource Center, a broader facility connecting service members to companies providing marketable skills and employment, the TCC will utilize cutting edge technology to assist military families with things like resume building and interview practice.
The Career Resource Center will feature 20 companies with training centers offering support to veterans, including CVS Health. With video conferencing technology, the CVS center will connect and engage with both military personnel and CVS employees beyond the Fort Bragg area under the Army Career Skills Program. The ACSP permits service members within 180 days of separation from the military to train in a career field.
“By 2020 the health care industry will need a projected 5.6 million highly-skilled workers, like our veterans, necessary to compete and grow and there is no reason why we can’t connect the two,” said Lisa Bisaccia, CVS Health’s executive vice president and chief human resources officer.
Since 2015, CVS Health has hired close to 8,000 individuals with military experience and over 2,300 military spouses. The Talent Connect Center builds on the company’s history of supporting service members in a variety of ways said David Casey, vice president, workforce strategies and chief diversity officer, himself a veteran U.S. Marine Corps Sergeant.
“The Talent Connect Center is dedicated to helping to make the transition process easier for veterans,” Casey said. “As a new generation of service men and women come home, we owe them every opportunity to live the American dream that they helped to defend.”
Kyle Borowski is a PBN contributing writer.
