// From trades to technologySyracuse, NY

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Hiring on ValorJobs
  • Barrett Paving Materials Inc.
  • Riccelli Northern
  • Haun Welding Supply
  • Suit-Kote
  • Mark Antony Homes
  • Arrow Fence
  • Holbrook Heating
  • 84 Lumber
  • Vitale Concrete
  • Kinsella Quarries
  • Airport Lighting Company
// Inside the appCentral New York

Jobs, training and the people who do the hiring.

The openings, the training that gets you to them, and the people doing the hiring, all in one place. Free for Veterans and first responders.

// Open now

Posted by the people doing the hiring

// If you are starting cold

Thirteen programs, most of them free

SkillBridge is the one worth knowing about: you train on the job for your last 180 days in service and keep drawing military pay the whole time.

Truck driving licenseFree
4 weeks · Central New York
Week 3 of 4Example
No license to startGI Bill accepted
See the training
// Who is on the other end

Talk to whoever is hiring

Tap “I’m interested” on a job and it goes to the person who handles hiring at that company. They read it and write back in the app.

Can you start Monday on the Erie Blvd job?
Yes. I have my own tools and a clean license.
Good. 7am, ask for Dave at the gate.
No agency in betweenExample
A welder striking an arc, sparks throwing off the work
// On site

The work is real and it is local

// Face to face

Local hiring events

Job fairs and open interview days run by employers and veterans groups around the area. Worth an hour if you would rather size somebody up in person.

Welding shop night6:00 pm · Court Street Road
Open house · Ironbridge Steel9:00 am · Liverpool
Employers attendingExample
// Around the area

Veterans organizations near you

A lot of what is useful around here still moves by word of mouth. Follow the groups you care about and some of it lands in front of you.

County Veterans CenterVeterans officeFollow
Onondaga CollegeTrade schoolFollow
VFW Post 219Veterans postFollow
Example
// Side by side

How this is different

  • A recruiter in the middleThe company reads it themselves
  • Two weeks of silenceAn answer in hours
  • Ten years crammed onto one pageA conversation about the work
  • An agency takes a cutFree on your end
  • Listings scraped from everywherePosted by the company hiring
  • A form that goes nowhereA message someone answers
  • Experience nobody can verifySkills you tick and they check
  • Jobs three states awayWork you can drive to
// From both sides

What people say

“We put a CDL opening up on a Thursday and had people worth talking to by Monday. No agency in the middle taking a cut.”
Barrett PavingHiring on ValorJobs
Create your accountGoogle, Apple or your phone · free if you served
// How it worksThree steps

How a hire happens here.

You came out with real hours on real equipment and no good way to prove it on paper. Nothing here asks you to. Find work you can do, read what it actually involves, and tell them you are interested. What happens next is a conversation with the person doing the hiring.

01 / Look

Work within driving distance

Openings across Onondaga County and the towns around it. Concrete, steel, CDL, warehouse, plant maintenance, general labor, IT and network support. If you can get to it, it is on here.

02 / Read

Written by the people who need it done

What the work is, where it is, and the skills it actually calls for, straight from the company. No recruiter boilerplate to decode, no listing scraped off somewhere else.

03 / Say so

It lands with the person doing the hiring

Tick the skills you have and send it. No cover letter, no portal, no wondering whether anyone opened it. It goes to the company, and they write back in the app.

// On your phoneiOS · Android

The app, on iPhone and Android.

The board, your profile and the messages are all in the app. Download it free from either store and carry on where you left off.

The board, showing openings near you
// Why it worksStep 2
Step 2.AVideo from a job site

Nobody reads your resume. They ask what you have built.

You get judged on the work you have actually done on site, in a conversation with the person hiring. That is the whole idea. It is why decisions here take hours instead of weeks, and why you do not need anything on paper to start.

DomainFrom Trades to Technology
NetworkVets · 1st Resp · Contractors
ModelDirect · No Recruiters
// Who it's forStep 3

Three sides of the network.

Tradesperson installing drywall on a framed structure
Step 3.A
For Veterans & First Responders

Built for those who showed up.

Build a profile in under a minute. See real jobs from real contractors in your area. Reach out directly. No résumé games, no recruiter hand-offs.

Find Work
Foreman reviewing blueprints on a construction site
Step 3.B
For Contractors & Builders

Hire from those who get it.

Post a job. Browse profiles filtered by trade, location, and availability. Message candidates directly. Build a crew you don’t have to babysit.

Start Hiring
A site supervisor in a hard hat and hi-vis on a working site
Step 3.C
For Organizations

Stay with the ones you placed.

Workforce boards, Veteran nonprofits, training providers and municipalities already do the hard part. Point the people you work with at contractors hiring in their area.

Set up your page
// Get StartedStep 4

See what’s open right now.

Setting up an account takes about a minute and costs veterans and first responders nothing.

Also on iPhone and Android

Cost to you
Free
Setup
About a minute
Model
Direct hire