The military-to-civilian recruiting firm RecruitMilitary
will present a free hiring event for job seekers who
have military backgrounds in Baltimore, July 19. This
event, the RecruitMilitary Career Fair, will take place
from 11 a.m. until 3 p.m. in the ballroom at Patapsco
Arena.
The career fair will be open to veterans who already
have civilian work experience, men and women who are
transitioning from active duty to civilian life, members
of the National Guard and reserves and military spouses.
More than 30 veteran-friendly organizations will conduct
one-on-one interviews with the job seekers -
organizations that will include corporate employers,
law-enforcement agencies and other government employers,
educational institutions, veterans service agencies and
veterans associations.
RecruitMilitary will produce the Baltimore Career
Fair in cooperation with: the American Legion;
HireVetsFirst, a unit of the United States Department of
Labor; and the Military Spouse Corporate Career Network
(MSCCN). The event will be the 22nd of 45
RecruitMilitary Career Fairs scheduled for 2007. During
14 such events produced from January through May, these
fairs have averaged 30-plus organizations interviewing
more than 450 job seekers.
The line-up for Baltimore already includes Amtrak,
Baltimore County 911, Baltimore Gas and Electric
Company, Con-way Freight, Denny's, the Federal Aviation
Administration, Geico, L-3 GSI, Little Caesars
Corporation, Lockheed Martin Corporation, the Maryland
Department of Management and Budget, the Maryland
Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services,
MVM, Inc., Maryland Transit Authority, the Military
Spouse Corporate Career Network, Oldcastle Architectural
Products Group, Prince George's County Police
Department, Southwest Airlines, the Transportation
Security Administration, Wackenhut Corporation and
Walgreens.
HireVetsFirst was created by Congress in 2002 to
develop awareness among employers of the outstanding
attributes of men and women who are transitioning from
active duty to civilian life. The Military Spouse
Corporate Career Network was founded in 2004 to provide
career opportunities and job portability for military
spouses. The organization is made up of military
spouses, caregivers to war wounded, and retired military
personnel. The president and founder is Deb Kloeppel, a
military spouse.
RecruitMilitary, based in Cincinnati, connects
employers with job seekers who have military
backgrounds. All of the company's owners, officers,
account executives, and recruiters are either veterans
or active or former reservists. In addition to
participation in career fairs, RecruitMilitary offers
subscriptions to its database of self-registered job
seekers who have military backgrounds, currently
numbering more than 160,000, at its Web site,
www.recruitmilitary.com; advertising in online and print
media; and contingency and retained hiring services. The
company mails more than 53,000 copies of a quarterly,
print newsletter called Incoming! to over 230 military
bases throughout the world for distribution to
transitioning personnel; employers advertise their job
openings in Incoming! The president of RecruitMilitary
is Drew Myers, formerly a captain in the United States
Marine Corps. The company was founded in 1998.
RecruitMilitary produced 13 career fairs in 2006.
More than 225 organizations and over 8,000 job seekers
attended those events. The career fairs generated
television coverage by CNBC, ABC, NBC and CNN; radio
coverage by ESPN and numerous regional stations; and
articles in several newspapers.