Employment discrimination question - is this legal?

[DocMedic]

Here's the thing, you probably were looking at usajobs.gov for the job announcement I assume. If you do a little more research and look harder, there's a good chance there is the same job opportunity for non vet types under a different announcement #. Also even if u did apply understand that the us government hiring system is the slowest hiring system ever. I applied for jobs in Oct and i am just now hearing about them now, and fortunately was able to finally find employment. As for not being to apply to the job announcement because your not a vet, I'm sorry but your not going to get any support from me. It's rough right now for veterans to get hired in the private sector at the moment, I know it's hard for everyone but it's been proven to be worse for vets (specially those coming out from Iraq and Afghan)

i had had to live with this mess for the past 2 years. Little back story about myself. 6yrs in active did 2 15month deployments. Transitioned to the reserves and had the army pay for college (while still receiving my full time pay) and commissioned as a officer for the reserves. I gratitude from CSU-P have TS-SCI and the past 2yrs I've been un-employed even though I had 2 head hunter companies trying to find me employment. From the get go I was told from the very start I already had 2 strikes against me for the private sector. 1)being a combat veteran of this era. And 2) being in the army reserves still. I had applied to over 40 jobs and only received 10 interviews. And I had my resume changed from "military experience" to "DOA experience" and leaving out the fact I was ever deployed. To be able to get at least 6 more of those interviews. I had it explained to me that a lot of HR's used automated systems to grade your resume before it's ever screen by human eyes. And "certain" words deducted your score. I thought this was all BS but talking to those in my reserve unit and doing some self research, last year Colorado had like a 5 or 6% unemployment rate. Well my era of vet was at 13%!!! In Colorado. It's so bad even nationally that the government is giving companies taxes breaks if they hire a certain % of employees as vets. That's why we've seen all these programs recently about "hiring vets" campaigns, because it's a real epidemic.


edit: maybe hard to read due to being typed on my phone. But you get the general idea.