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The Military Spouse Employment Partnership Offers a Diverse Array of Employer Partners for Military Spouses to Connect With and Job Postings

• The majority of employer partners represent professional and business, education, health, or finance industries, which are career fields that military spouses have reported interest in.
• Employer partners in the program also tend to be large (based on the number of people they employ), and report having an international or national presence.
• More than 70 percent of employer partners report offering part-time work, 25 percent offer temporary or seasonal work, but fewer than 50 percent of partners report that they offer telework opportunities, which is a growing trend for private- and public-sector employers in the United States.
• Early analyses of jobs posted in the program's career portal suggest that jobs listed by employer partners are spread across the United States.
• We also found some evidence that jobs listed on the career portal were relatively well matched to typical military spouses' education or experience levels.

There Is Room for Improvement

• Criteria for employers to be a partner and outreach strategies may impede the program's meeting the employment needs of military spouses interested in coding- and education-related jobs.
• Some industries, such as software development, may not meet partnership criteria, such as being in business for more than five years and having a multistate distribution.
• In the case of education, most public school systems and private schools would not have a multistate distribution.
• Only about one-third of job postings included information about required education or experience.
• A separate issue requiring greater partner engagement is the presence of already filled or out-of-date job postings within the portal.
• The current career portal includes search options for keywords within the job title and several filter options, but many of these options are not completed consistently by employers.