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RecruitMilitary Career Fair
for Military Veterans and Military Spouses
Coming to Savannah Region on January 10
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CINCINNATI January 2, 2008-The military-to-civilian
recruiting firm RecruitMilitary will present a free
hiring event for job seekers who have military
backgrounds in the Savannah Region on Thursday, January
10. This event, the RecruitMilitary Career Fair, will
take place from 11 a.m. until 3 p.m. at the Sans Hotel
and Suites in Hinesville, Georgia. RecruitMilitary urges
all job seekers who have military backgrounds to
attend-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 20 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. Already in the line-up are Alltel
Communications, BAE Systems, CSX, DeVry University,
Embry Riddle Aeronautical University, Holcim (US) Inc.,
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS), Lear Siegler
Services, Little Caesars, Lockheed Martin Corporation,
Loomis, the Military Spouse Corporate Career Network,
New York Life, Northrop Grumman Technical Services,
Oldcastle Architectural Products Group, Phoenix
International, Schwan's Food Company, Target
Distribution Center, the U.S. Border Patrol, and
Westinghouse Anniston.
RecruitMilitary will produce the 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 first of 104 RecruitMilitary Career
Fairs scheduled for 2008. Seventeen of them will take
place in the Southeast-2 in Savannah, 4 in Atlanta, 2 in
Birmingham, 3 in Jacksonville, 2 in Miami, 2 in St.
Petersburg, and 2 in Tampa.
More than 500 organizations attended 45 RecruitMilitary
Career Fairs produced in 2007. At those events, an
average of 30-plus organizations interviewed an average
of over 325 job seekers. RecruitMilitary Career Fairs
conducted in 2006 and 2007 generated television coverage
by CNBC, ABC, NBC, CBS, and CNN; radio coverage by ESPN
and numerous regional stations; and articles in
metropolitan and local newspapers.
The American Legion is an association of veterans who
served during times of war. The Legion has 2.7 million
members in nearly 15,000 posts throughout the world. The
National Commander of The American Legion is Martin F.
Conatser, an Army veteran, of Champaign, Illinois. The
Commander of the Department of Georgia is Dale Barnett
of Douglasville. Congress chartered The American Legion
in 1919. 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.
RecruitMilitary, based in Cincinnati, connects employers
with job seekers who have military backgrounds. All of
the company's owners, officers, account executives, and
retained search consultants 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 185,000, at its Web site,
www.recruitmilitary.com; advertising in online and print
media; and retained hiring services. The company mails
more than 54,000 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.
Contact:
Drew Myers
President
RecruitMilitary LLC
800-226-0841
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