REAL HELP.
IN YOUR ROOM.
Practical seminars for veteran groups, workforce offices, base and community organizations, and employers. Pick the seminar and the length. We bring the seminar, the slides, a participant packet and a feedback card for every attendee.
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Each one comes in three lengths. One phone number. Call or text — a veteran answers either way.
Getting a Federal Job
How a USAJOBS application is read, and how to build one that gets through.
- Set up a USAJOBS profile and search with filters
- Read a job announcement section by section
- Cut a federal resume to two pages
- Answer the questionnaire honestly
- How veterans' preference and veteran hiring authorities work
Pricing: $50 short (30 minutes), $65 standard (45 minutes), $75 extended (90 minutes). Each adds 15 minutes for questions. Per seminar, not per person.
Civilian Job Search and Resume, Using AI Tools
How to use AI tools in a job search without letting them put false claims in your name.
- What AI tools can and cannot do for a resume
- What should never be typed into a chatbot
- Checking AI output before you sign it
- Veterans' preference, training routes and job scams
- Where human help beats a chatbot
Pricing: $50 short (30 minutes), $65 standard (45 minutes), $75 extended (90 minutes). Each adds 15 minutes for questions. Per seminar, not per person.
Leaving the Military: Your First 12 Months
A clock-based guide to the year around separation.
- Your transition clock, starting 365 days out
- TAP, your records and your disability claim
- Health coverage and life insurance conversion
- School, work and income while you transition
- Free help to use first, and how to check before you pay
Pricing: $50 short (30 minutes), $65 standard (45 minutes), $75 extended (90 minutes). Each adds 15 minutes for questions. Per seminar, not per person.
Starting Your Own Business
From idea to a set-up, legal and funded business, with veteran and military-spouse resources.
- Business plan, structure and setup
- Taxes, licenses and insurance
- Funding options and SBA help
- Veteran contracting and certification
- Military-spouse paths, and business scams to avoid
Pricing: $50 short (30 minutes), $65 standard (45 minutes), $75 extended (90 minutes). Each adds 15 minutes for questions. Per seminar, not per person.
Benefits Almost Nobody Claims
The deadlines and benefits that are earned and often missed.
- The dates that end dental care, life insurance and the clothing allowance
- VA business funding, the loan fee refund and VA loan assumption
- VALife and the 30% hiring authority for federal jobs
- Commissary and exchange access, Vet Centers, the free lifetime park pass and ID.me
- Free help first, and how to check before paying anyone
Pricing: $50 short (30 minutes), $65 standard (45 minutes), $75 extended (90 minutes). Each adds 15 minutes for questions. Per seminar, not per person.
How VA Ratings Really Combine
Why VA combines disability ratings instead of adding them, and how to check the math.
- How to combine ratings by hand, and why VA rounds once at the end
- The bilateral factor, and where to check the math in VA's table and calculator
- Four paths to 100% pay: more conditions, a single 100% rating, TDIU and a temporary 100%
- Decision review lanes and Intent to File
- Free help first
Pricing: $50 short (30 minutes), $65 standard (45 minutes), $75 extended (90 minutes). Each adds 15 minutes for questions. Per seminar, not per person.
Military Spouse Employment
The federal hiring tools, training money and moving help that are available to spouses.
- Military Spouse Preference, the noncompetitive appointment and the 10-point preference, and what each one does and does not do
- How to find spouse jobs on USAJOBS and what to attach
- The SpouseWorks Scholarship, free career coaching and relicensing help
- Licenses, taxes and unemployment after a military move
- Training money for spouses, and where to start for free help
Pricing: $50 short (30 minutes), $65 standard (45 minutes), $75 extended (90 minutes). Each adds 15 minutes for questions. Per seminar, not per person.
Money After the Uniform
How the TSP works, how retired pay and VA pay fit together, and which tax questions to ask.
- The 2026 TSP limits, the match, and what you keep when you leave
- Which retirement system you are in, and what the lump sum choice costs
- How retired pay, CRDP, CRSC and VA disability fit together, and what is taxed
- Taking money out of the TSP: rollovers, the 10% penalty and required distributions
- IRA limits, state of legal residence, and which questions to ask a state
Pricing: $50 short (30 minutes), $65 standard (45 minutes), $75 extended (90 minutes). Each adds 15 minutes for questions. Per seminar, not per person.
Buying a Home with a VA Loan
How a VA home loan works, what it costs, and how to avoid the common traps.
- How a VA loan works: a private lender lends and VA guarantees part of it
- The Certificate of Eligibility, entitlement, and when a county limit matters
- The funding fee, who pays none, and the other costs
- The appraisal, the inspection and the VA escape clause
- What to do if you fall behind, and where to start for free help
Pricing: $50 short (30 minutes), $65 standard (45 minutes), $75 extended (90 minutes). Each adds 15 minutes for questions. Per seminar, not per person.
Getting Your Business Online and Found
How to get a business found on Google and set up a website, a domain and an EIN.
- How to claim, verify and fill in a free Google Business Profile
- How local results are ranked, and why a ranking cannot be bought
- How to ask for reviews the honest way, and what the FTC reviews rule bans
- What a service-business website needs, and what free builders and domains mean for you
- Rules for marketing email and online selling, and how to get a free EIN
Pricing: $50 short (30 minutes), $65 standard (45 minutes), $75 extended (90 minutes). Each adds 15 minutes for questions. Per seminar, not per person.
Pick a Length
Price is per seminar, not per person.
| Version | Teaching | Questions | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Short | 30 minutes | 15 minutes | $50 |
| Standard | 45 minutes | 15 minutes | $65 |
| Extended (with workshops) | 90 minutes | 15 minutes | $75 |
Three Steps
1. Call
Tell us which seminar and which length.
2. Set the room
You provide seating and a wall or screen to project on.
3. We run it
We bring the seminar, the slides, the packets and the feedback cards.
Call 785-579-9071 · schott.richard@vsgsolutions.org
Seminars give general information from official sources and are not legal, tax or financial advice. Rules change, so attendees should confirm details with the agency named in each seminar.
