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TAKING STOCK Quinn, second from left, speaks at the New York Stock Exchange in 2018. (Photo courtesy of Michael Quinn)
started,” in August 2018, Quinn said. Today, HireMilitary is a service that links service members with vetted employers for the DOD SkillBridge program through its own web-based platform. It has grown to include direct job placement for veterans and military spouses as well, and now employs a team of 20 people around the U.S. “We really exploded,” Quinn said.
Meanwhile, he was still holding down his day job at Ernst & Young. He knew he had a choice to make. “It came to a point where I left the company, because I figured I could be a better partner to the firm, owning a service-disabled veteran-owned small business, than competing for them as a partner in a large firm like EY.”
A NEW FOCUS Since December 2020, Quinn has been focused on his blossom- ing company—and it shows. He now has three distinct business units under Tenova LLC, the parent company of HireMilitary.
“We’ve got HireMilitary, which now does both internships and direct placement. We’ve started taking on select companies [for direct job placement] because we want to focus on making sure they’re the right fit and focus on retention. We want to make sure we place people in roles that are great for them and the company. Tat’s for service members, veterans and military spouses.”
Quinn and his team also created a Digital Networking Profes- sional Program, which is a certification program that teaches people how to use LinkedIn effectively. “We created the program because there were, almost overnight, tons of LinkedIn coaches, LinkedIn ‘optimizers,’ LinkedIn lead-generating people, and, I’ve got to be quite honest, many of them didn’t even know what they were doing themselves. I saw a lot of service members paying $1,000 to get a background image and an ‘about’ section. It was really bad. So we created the [program] out of that challenge.” Tenova also does government contracting as a service-disabled veteran-owned small business. “If government agencies want to
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