Thank you for the question.
No, you do not need a master's to work at Veterans Affairs. The level of qualification will depend on the position you are going after. If we are hiring a nurse, you need a nursing degree. You need your bachelor's in nursing. If you are going for a case manager, we accept a bachelor's—we do accept a master's, absolutely—but what we are asking for is experience in case management. You have to have taken case management.
We have a whole series of positions—we call them veteran service agents—that do not require education to that level, where we do look at hiring more of our veterans. I have to be careful, because veterans are very well educated. A military nurse, we'd love to have. The VSAs, the veteran service agents, are not case managers, and they don't have the same education.
It all depends on which position we are trying to fill. It varies.