 I'm joined here by Ryan Burgos who's the DAV Employment Services Director and Craig Griffin the Executive Director of MBA Veterans and we're at the 2023 MBA Veterans Career Conference in downtown Atlanta. Ryan I just want to start off with you and just ask you why is DAV so committed to employment for veterans? Sure so I mean there's more to separating off of active duty than filing a claim for disability benefits. DAV is the premier organization when it comes to helping service members and dependents make that all important transition off of active duty. However in order to be a successful transition meaningful employment opportunities is necessary also. Yeah and this is a great example of those meaningful employment opportunities. Craig just tell me a little bit about this this event. Why are employers looking for post-graduate veterans? So I get asked all the time you know what makes this event different than any other veteran job fair that's out there and what you've got here is a you've got a hundred of the best companies in the world that are here you've got all the major financial institutions you've got great tech companies like Google and Microsoft you've got DAV as a great partner participating and you just have so many opportunities that are there but the reason the companies are here is because you've got roughly 1,100 of some superstar veteran candidates who not only have that great veteran background with the discipline and the work ethic and the global perspective that they all bring to the table but they're also all either currently enrolled or very recent graduates of top ranked MBA programs throughout the country. So you've got representatives from the Keenan Flagler School at North Carolina and the Fuqua School at Duke and NYU Stern and Chicago Booth and Vanderbilt Owen and just amazing schools everywhere so you couple that military background with the brains to be able to get into some of these schools and what you have is you have a room full of future executive level candidates and that's why companies come to us this our 16th year doing this event it's a one-time per year event and you can see it's kind of a madhouse in there it's really a lot of activity which is great. Yeah no there's a lot of veterans here talk to a lot of them today flew in from out of town to come and and participate in this event where can people who are interested in learning a little bit more about this maybe they're in the similar situation where can they go for more information. Yeah so it's MBAVeterans.com it gives the information and like I said we do this event one time per year it's every October usually the second Thursday Friday and October for 2024 we've already got the date set it's going to be 10-11 October right back here in Atlanta and if you want information check out the website or you can email info at MBAVeterans.com and I'll go to my inbox and I'll be happy to talk with you. Excellent MBAVeterans.com this is a one-time event per year but DAV we're at a career fairs hundreds of times a year we have many events can you just tell us a little bit more about where anyone interested any veteran interested in a job can go or where they can find out more information. So any veteran or spouse interested in attending a DAV career fair that we have around the country and go to jobs.dav.org can register for free on the website there's a job board on there with hundreds of thousands of nationwide vacancies to help veterans and spouses make that all important transition off of active duty but it doesn't stop there again DAV our bread and butter is claims work that's what we do and when it comes to a subject matter expert to help them make that transition off of active duty get their benefits taken care of DAV is the number one company to help you do that so again it's just jobs.dav.org jobs.dav.org Craig Ryan thank you so much for your time and again we're at the 2023 NBA Veterans Career Conference.