Job Listing

Job listing refers to the act of the federal contractors transmitting their job openings to the local Employment Service Delivery System (ESDS) closest to the location of the job. Specifically, under VEVRAA, covered federal Government contractors are required to provide their job listing information in a format that the appropriate ESDS permits. For example, if the ESDS requires electronic transmission in a web-based format, the federal contractor must provide its listings in that manner. If the ESDS will accept job listings by alternative means, whether it be electronically, by facsimile, or by mail, then the federal contractor, or its agent, may provide job listings in any of the allowed formats.

Information Included with Job Listings

Additionally, with any job listing the federal contractor must indicate: (1) it is a federal contractor that desires “Priority Referrals” of Protected Veterans for its openings; (2) the contact information for the federal contractor’s official responsible for hiring at each hiring location in the state; and (3) updated information, if any, in any subsequent job listing.

How Job Listings Support Priority Veteran Referrals

For example, some local offices receiving VetCentral job feed emails from DirectEmployers listing a federal contractor’s available jobs will forward those emails to their registered veterans first (i.e. “Priority Referral”) before later “posting” the jobs to the state job bank. Alternatively, some local offices, after sharing VetCentral emails with the registered veterans (“Priority Referral”), print them out and later simply make them available to others.