When Sandy Fusco got out of the Navy, she wasn’t sure what she was going to do.
“I think veterans, we all have a little internal doubt,” said Fusco. “We’re not sure how we’re going to be received or whether our experience is really going to be valued.”
But then she met with Capital One and discovered there were many businesses out there that wanted people with her specific skill set. Now, as Senior Director for Capital One’s Auto Finances Business Risk Office, she goes out and looks for future success stories.
“The determination and drive and integrity they bring to a business is valued by companies,” said Fusco.
Capital One joined more than 60 other businesses and organizations at Globe Life Park Thursday for a special veterans job fair.
It was organized by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s "Hiring Our Heroes" initiative, which works to connect veterans with employers and vice versa.
“[Companies] want to hire veterans, but they ask where are they?” said Eric Eversole, President of Hiring Our Heroes. “We want to find these talented men and women. We want to put them in our workforces.”
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Kanayochokwu Kanezi, who recently got out of the Army Reserves, flew in from Georgia to attend the job fair. He says he found several job opportunities he never would have considered had he not come.
“I have a lot of friends and co-workers from my job in Georgia that got hired by veteran’s appointment through one of these fairs,” said Kanezi. “So that’s why I decided to come out here.”
And Capital One left with a stack of impressive resumes to go through.
More than 500 veterans registered for the job fair.
To say thank you for their service, the Texas Rangers gave each of them free tickets to Thursday night’s game versus the Yankees.
