Operation: Workforce, an initiative that connects veterans with employers, assists veterans returning to the civilian workforce and supports the employers seeking to hire them.

Veterans are an important part of our workforce and with an estimated 80,000 veterans expected to reenter Georgia's workforce by 2016, employers need to prepare for the influx to keep Georgia the No. 1 state in the nation to do business.

Over the past two months Georgia employers have had the opportunity to attend summits in Atlanta and Savannah hosted by Operation: Workforce where business executives and HR professionals heard about best practices for connecting with, hiring, assimilating and fully leveraging returning veterans.

So employers ... do you have your notepad ready?

Find out more about hiring a Georgia's Veterans 

Support Georgia's Veterans and members of the National Guard and Reserve by signing our pledge of support! Georgia has one of the highest numbers of returning soldiers, and it is imperative that our state take critical steps to ensure that soldiers who so valiantly and selflessly served our nation get the help they need transitioning back to civilian life and into the workforce.

Click this link to sign the Pledge of Support