New data reveals the "Sweet Spot" careers where veteran retention, labor market growth, and automation resistance converge.

As Artificial Intelligence reshapes the economy, veterans are uniquely positioned for the roles growing fastest. This joint report from Redeployable and Hire Heroes USA analyzes exclusive retention data to identify the civilian fields where veterans stay, lead, and succeed.

‍

[CALLOUT]

‍

The Three Signals Behind Veteran Career Success

The report identifies three forces that consistently predict long-term veteran success:

‍

1) Retention Data

Real-world outcomes from Hire Heroes USA show Veterans stay longer in roles that engage their judgment, autonomy, and technical ability.

2) Labor-Market Growth

Bureau of Labor Statistics projections show the same fields showing high veteran satisfaction are expanding rapidly due to cybersecurity threats, healthcare shortages, infrastructure investment, and energy transition.

3) Automation Resistance

Roles requiring human leadership, physical presence, and complex decision-making remain far harder to automate.

Where all three overlap, veteran career outcomes are strongest.

The 6 Career "Sweet Spots" for Veterans

Our analysis identified six specific sectors that score high for veteran satisfaction and low for automation risk.

• Cybersecurity: #1 in veteran retention with very high automation resistance
• Healthcare: Mission-driven work with 1.9 million annual openings.‍
• Skilled Trades: High satisfaction and immune to digital automation.‍
• Engineering: Where military systems thinking meets civilian infrastructure.
• Program & Operations Management: Leveraging leadership to bypass entry-level friction.‍
• Supply Chain & Logistics: Critical roles in an increasingly complex global economy.

Across these fields, veterans are not only landing jobs, they are staying longer, advancing further, and reporting higher satisfaction.

‍

Want the full breakdown? Get the detailed role-by-role analysis, growth percentages, and transition pathways in the full report.

‍

View the Infographic Summary

About The Authors

About the Data

‍This report draws on exclusive retention data from Hire Heroes USA, analyzed by Redeployable to track long-term employment patterns across industries. It is paired with U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics projections and current AI-impact analysis.

About Redeployable

Redeployable is a skills-based talent engine that helps veterans move into high-growth civilian careers. The platform analyzes military experience at a granular level — from technical competencies to operational leadership — and translates it into civilian career pathways, employer-ready profiles, and job opportunities. Backed by proprietary veteran employment data and AI-driven skills modeling, Redeployable bridges the disconnect between military experience and civilian hiring by revealing the transferable skills most employers overlook. Redeployable helps users find roles where they can not only get hired, but stay, advance, and thrive. For more information, visit redeployable.io. 

About Hire Heroes USA

Hire Heroes USA is a nonprofit organization that empowers U.S. service  members, veterans and military spouses to succeed in the civilian workforce. Hire Heroes USA offers individualized career coaching, professionally written resumes, mentoring, workshops, a job board, career fairs and more to thousands of job-seeking veterans and military spouses annually. Since Hire Heroes USA’s founding, more than 115,000 Hire Heroes USA clients have found success in their job search. Hire Heroes USA prioritizes transparency, earning a four-star rating from Charity Navigator and the GuideStar Platinum Seal. Funded exclusively through public donations and federal and private grants, we provide our services at no cost to clients. For more information about our organization, visit hireheroesusa.org.