Businesses looking for a few good men and women can turn to the military force that coined the term – the Marine Corps.
The corps’ Marine for Life program is designed to help Marines make the transition from military to civilian life, said Lt. Col. Robert Sommers, deputy director of the program based in Quantico, Va.
He prefers to call it a conduit, he said, because it provides information and opportunities for Marines after they are discharged.
Paul Joseph, a partner in the Beachwood-based collection agency of Joseph, Mann & Creed, has three Marines on board, two through Marines for Life.
“If these are typical, we want a whole office full,” Joseph said Thursday.
He referred to Adam Koelliker, 24, of North Royalton; Tom Tyrity, 31, of Brecksville; and Adam Pattison, 25, of Mentor.
Tyrity, a collections manager, was hired after he left the Marines because he had worked with the firm’s owners at another collection agency. He said he heard of the program and urged the partners to hire some Marines.
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