Jobs and employment
You can get job and employment support from the following organisations.
- Jobs, training and volunteering - find a job, access training or view volunteering opportunities.
- Blue Orchid for business start-up services - delivers support to ex-forces people to start their own business.
- Career Transition Partnership on GOV.UK - This Ministry of Defence's programme connects ex-service people with employers.
- MOD Enhanced Learning Credits Scheme - this promotes lifelong learning amongst members of the armed forces. Also provides financial support for the pursuit of higher-level learning.
- Naval Families Federation - gives details of initiatives that include enhanced access to support services and revised policies that make it easier for service spouses and civil partners to accrue national insurance contributions when accompanying a serving person on an overseas posting.
- Regular Forces Employment Association - helps men and women of all ranks leaving the armed forces to find and to remain in employment throughout their working lives.
- The Royal British Legion – employment - provides details of getting into work after leaving the forces including training, job vacancies, interview preparation and a guide to starting your own business.
- Troops to Teachers - the programme is about recruiting the very best ex-Armed Forces personnel into teaching.
- Veterans into Logistics - supports ex-forces, individuals with convictions, and vulnerable people in gaining HGV licences and support into paid employment.