Jumpstart Your Career After Serving Your Country!
The IBEW has a pathway for everyone including our serving men and women!
H2H is a driven entity that connects transitioning active-duty military service members, veterans, National Guard and Reservists with skilled training and quality career opportunities in the construction industry. Since 2003, we’ve helped over 40,000 military personnel successfully transfer into civilian careers in the construction trades.
How do we do it?
We’ve partnered with 15 international construction trade unions – like the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) and the International Association of Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation Workers (SMART) – that have made a commitment to help our military heroes successfully transition to civilian life and work. We help service members explore the construction trades, get them started with earn-while-you-learn apprenticeship training programs through these partner organizations, and help connect them with employers. We also educate service members on how they can use their G.I. Bill benefits to supplement their incomes while participating in a registered apprenticeship program.
We’re proud and honored to be our military heros’ gateway to meaningful, long-lasting, well-paying careers in the construction trades through world-class apprenticeship education programs.
The Veteran’s Electrical Entry Program (VEEP) is designed by the electrical training ALLIANCE to fill two needs facing the United States currently. The first is providing transitioning service members and recently separated veterans the ability to reenter the civilian workforce in a high demand field that offers excellent earning potential. This helps VEEP accomplish its second goal, providing high quality electricians and lineman to an industry facing a major shortage of skilled labor.
How VEEP Works
VEEP understands that the transition to civilian life can be stressful. To help alleviate that, the program is provided at no cost to the participant and can be done while transitioning out of the military. Prior to attending VEEP, participants decide where in the United States they would like to live and work after completion of the program. The electrical training ALLIANCE then facilitates an agreement for direct entry of the candidate into the training center that has jurisdiction in that location. Once an agreement has been made, the participant is approved to attend VEEP. All of our training options are open to recently separated veterans of all military services including Coast Guard, National Guard** and Reserve**. That means up to 5 years from separation date to date of application. In addition the electrician offerings are available while active duty, under SkillBridge.
VEEP offers pre-apprenticeship training programs designed to prepare participants for successful careers as electricians or linemen.