why hire military?
Home Base Wichita encourages local companies to implement a military employment strategy as part of our mission to bring economic prosperity to the South-Central Kansas region.
Companies with and effective military employment strategy:
- Have greater success in hiring highly skilled individuals
- Are more efficient
- Have lower turnover
Home Base Wichita believes hiring military-connected individuals is mutually beneficial to our workforce and community.
Home Base Wichita seeks to retain, regain and attract military-connected talent to the South-Central Kansas region
- Retain: Encouraging service members and their families residing in South-Central Kansas to stay and call it home with support from the community and viable employment opportunities;
- Regain: Inviting Kansans exiting service to return home to a new and exciting post-military career in their home state;
- Attract: Guiding military families who are undecided on where to land after exiting service to desirable careers in South Central Kansas with employers who value their skills
Military-connected individuals possess the following qualities, making them an asset in any role:
- Discipline
- Integrity
- Leadership
- Team building
- Reliability
- Quick assessment awareness
- Positivity
- Diversity experience
- Adaptability