First Lady Michelle Obama announced Wednesday that the government is creating an integrated job website to help people leaving the military create resumes and find employment. 

The Associated Press reports that the one-stop job site will also allow veterans and their spouses to become part of a database for which companies can seek out veterans with specific skills. 

Michelle Obama announced the launch of the site, called the Veterans Employment Center, at Fort Campbell, Ky., during a veterans' jobs summit organized by the Pentagon, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation and the departments of Labor and Veterans Affairs. 

"Our service members haven't always had the time or information they needed to prepare their resumes, to plot their career goals, to meet with employers and get the jobs they deserve," the first lady said in a prepared statement.

Mrs. Obama and Jill Biden, wife of Vice President Joe Biden, have been focused on the needs of veterans since President Obama took office.  

The job site comes at a time when more Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans are coming home as the conflicts in those countries wind down. Unemployment among veterans who have served since September 2001 was at 9 percent in 2013, which is 1.6 points higher than the civilian population. 

The site, ebenefits.va.gov, is the first online resource for veterans that offers information from agencies and employers. It will help veterans and their spouses create resumes and translate military skills into private-sector jobs, as well as provide career training data. 

Dakota Meyer, a Afghanistan veteran and Medal of Honor recipient, said the military and civilian worlds often have a difficult time connecting. 

"It's something as small as in the military we call it a mission and in the corporate world they call it a project," he said.

Meyer, who works with the Chamber of Commerce Foundation, said the integrated jobs website will help link the disparate military and civilian worlds. 

"I was a sniper in the Marine Corps. How many jobs do you think the civilian world, the corporate world has for snipers? So how do you market that?" he said. "The tool will help translate your skills over to whatever the corporate world is going to understand. So being a sniper -- leadership skills, discipline, integrity, whatever-it-takes attitude, personnel management. These are skills that any corporation is looking for."

The site's announcement is part of a month-long series of events that marks the third anniversary of Joining Forces, the initiative that Mrs. Obama and Mrs. Biden created in 2011 to increase education, health care and employment for active-duty service members, veterans and military family members. 

Mrs. Biden is also set to announce that the military spouses' employment program has enlisted 228 employers, up from the 60 companies that enlisted in the program when it began in 2011.