European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 10, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse Monday february 10, 1992 the stars and stripes a Page 3dors can Lead to Job opportunities resume registry referral give employers easy Access by David Tarrant staff writer Washington when it comes to looking for a Job everyone needs a Little help opening doors to employers. That a the idea anyway behind the defense outplacement referral system. Dors is a resume registry and referral system developed to provide employers easy Access to service members their spouses and some government personnel who Are seeking civilian employment according to Paula Davis Deputy director of the Pentagon a transition office. One part of the defense departments operation transition programs Dors allows those who Are leaving the military to input their resumes into a computerized data base. The system then matches these resumes with employers who have a Job opening. Just started less than two months ago Dors already has about 400 employers signed up for the program. It is continuing to grow by an average of 50 employers a week As More businesses find out about the program Davis said. A a we be done a mass mailing to businesses informing them of the services and we had a paragraph about the program in a Story in inc Magazine recently a Davis said. A brochure that is being developed called a heroes for hire a will also target employers and especially Small businesses a because that a where a lot of the jobs the message is that businesses have helped pay the training costs of military personnel through taxes. A basically the message to employers is a you be paid for the training. Now take advantage of it a a Davis said. Christopher Jehn the assistant Secretary of defense for Force management and personnel said that in his talks with business leaders he finds that Scricc members have a Strong reputation. A military service members Are looked on As people who have demonstrated self discipline leadership skills and Follower skills As Well which is not in import skills As Well As the types of jobs and areas of the country preferred by the applicant. Service members also Nave inc option of listing their military duties. This information is loaded onto diskettes and sent to the defense manpower data Center files in Monterey Calif. To Access the Dors resume referral system employers dial a 1-900 Telephone number to receive up to 25 re sums by fax the same business Day or up to 100 military service members Are looked on As people who have demonstrated self discipline leadership skills and Follower skills As Well which is not unimportant a Christopher Jehn assistant Secretary of defense for Force management and personnel Tant a he said. A they have some elementary Job skills which in a told Are in distressingly Short Supply like showing up for work on time. They know what it Means to be Given a task clearly defined goals and to go out and do employers who had recently registered with Dors represented a Cross Section of businesses including Railroad companies computer firms and health care businesses. A lot of trucking companies Are also interested in hiring veterans As Are insurance sales firms Davis said. To Register in the referral Bank Job seekers go to one of some 350 Sites where Dors is located and fill out an electronic application form that gives information on education personal and professional resumes by mail the next business Day. The referral service is also available to approximately 300,000 civilians who Are expected to leave their defense department jobs this year. So far Only about 4,000 service members spouses and civilians have registered but the numbers Are growing. Davis said 92 registered three weeks ago and 162 registered two weeks ago. About 85 percent of the military in the registry Are enlisted service members and the other 15 percent Are officers she said. The program is in place overseas but Davis acknowledged that it might be More difficult for employers to get in touch with service members based outside the United states. People can Start using Dors up to three months before they separate from the service and can update their re sums every three months after that. Davis advised updating the information just before separating to reflect the service members new address. In addition to Dors the Pentagon a operation transition team is also experimenting with an electronic bulletin Board that will run Job ads. Once registered for Dors employers will also be eligible to place two week or six month Job ads on the bulletin Board. The ads would then be available the next business Day to people at some 350 military installations including nine countries overseas where americans Are based. Starting this week the bulletin Board will be tested at about 35 military installations. A in the bulletin Board an employer can get real specific about what he a looking for. In other words he May not just be looking for a nurse but a paediatric in the future the bulletin Board will also add a Calendar of events information on the location of state employment agencies As Well As veterans assistance programs and other similar Job information. As added ammunition for Job seekers the Pentagon a transition team is also developing a document that would verify the skills of service members. For example someone who had worked in an accounting department would be issued a document indicating training and experience in accounting. A a we re 80 percent to 90 percent there a Davis said. A a it a going to be really hard liners carrying a poster of Lenin protest against russian president Boris n. Yeltsin a Market , supporters of Yeltsin rally Moscow a opponents of president Boris n. Yeltsin a efforts to introduce a Market Economy protested in Moscow on sunday. Backers of the russian Leader countered with their own demonstration. A no to the Market no to economic murders a said one placard held aloft As tens of thousands of people Many waving the red and Blue Flag of the former soviet russian Republic marched from Gorki Park toward Maneth Square adjacent to the Kremlin. A a Yeltsin a gang steals from the people a a demonstrator shouted. Hundreds of police lining the City a Garden ring Road blocked the hard liners As they attempted to go to the parliament building known As the White House where pro Yeltsin supporters were gathering. The authorities diverted the anti Yeltsin crowd to the Square near the Kremlin. Meanwhile up to 10,000 people chanting a Yeltsin Yeltsin a waved White Blue and red russian flags outside the parliament building. They opened the rally with a minute of silence for the three people who died during the August attempt to overthrow then soviet president Mikhail s. Gorbachev. Afterwards dozens of speakers Rose in defense of Yeltsin and spoke against a return to communist War baby Boom reaches fruition at Camp Pendleton by the los Angeles times Oceanside Calif. Nine months after Many of the 20,000 Navy and Marine personnel came Home from the persian Gulf to Camp Pendleton the predicted Aby Boom has come to pass. The bases naval Hospital and comm Ity hospitals Are reporting a Sharp jump in be number of babies born to Marine facies a trend that began in late december and seems to be continuing. A we certainly Are seeing a major increase in the last six weeks., a said Denise Stearns spokeswoman for the fal Brook Hospital District where the Normal 25 military births a month jumped to 46 in january. A a there a your Boom. So we re off and running a Stearns said adding that february is shaping up to be just As Busy. At Tri cities medical Center which takes some of the overflow from Camp Pendleton a Hospital the average of 380 monthly births Rose to 418 in december and 430 last month. A we Are averaging 50 extra births a month the majority of which Are military a said Karen Ladley assistant administrator at the Hospital. A a that a a fairly significant the Brevity of the persian Gulf War prompted Ladley to predict that this Boom will be but a a we re projecting that certainly it will go through May and possibly june a Ladley said. Navy capt. William Rowley commanding officer at the naval Hospital also believes the baby Boom is leveling off. If anything Many couples May have decided a a it a no time to Start a family because of the High Cost of living and military staffing reductions that have put career plans in doubt he said. A a it a rough to be a Serviceman in California its so Cotton picking expensive a Rowley said
