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RecruitMilitary Career Fair Coming to Minute Maid Park in Houston on Tuesday, January 22
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The military-to-civilian recruiting firm
RecruitMilitary will present a free hiring event for job
seekers who have military backgrounds in Houston on
Tuesday, January 22, 2008. This event, the
RecruitMilitary Career Fair, will take place from 11
a.m. until 3 p.m. at Minute Maid Park, home of the
Houston Astros. RecruitMilitary urges all job seekers
with 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.
Houston, Texas January 14, 2008 -- The
military-to-civilian recruiting firm RecruitMilitary
will present a free hiring event for job seekers who
have military backgrounds in Houston on Tuesday, January
22, 2008. This event, the RecruitMilitary Career Fair,
will take place from 11 a.m. until 3 p.m. at Minute Maid
Park, home of the Houston Astros. RecruitMilitary urges
all job seekers with 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 35 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 Aggreko, LLC, Becon Construction Company -
Bechtel, BP, Chevron Texaco, CON-WAY FREIGHT INC, Danos
& Curole, DeVry University, Dresser Inc, Dunbar Armored,
Evergreen Environmental Services, Greene's Energy,
Grocers Supply, HMT Inspections, Houston Metro Transit
Authority, KBR, L-3 Communications Integrated Systems,
Lyondell Chemical Company, McLane Foodservice, MERCURY
TRANSPORTATION INC, Military Sealift Command, Mustang
Cat, Northcentral University, Oldcastle Architectural,
Inc., Omni Flow Computers Inc., Reynolds & Reynolds, SGS
North America, TMP Worldwide - Brinks Home Security,
United States Border Patrol, US Army National Guard, and
Worldwide Worker.
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 third of 104 RecruitMilitary Career
Fairs scheduled for 2008. Fifteen of them will take
place in Texas and adjacent states -- 4 in Houston, 3 in
Austin, 3 in Dallas, 2 in Fort Worth, 1 in New Orleans
and 2 in Oklahoma City.
More than 500 organizations attended 45
RecruitMilitary Career Fairs 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, 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 Texas is Paul Dillard, a
Navy veteran. 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.
Drew Myers
President
RecruitMilitary LLC
800-226-0841
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