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RecruitMilitary
Career Fair for Military Veterans and
Military Spouses Coming to Boston Region
on July 12
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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 the Boston
region on Thursday, July 12. This event, the
RecruitMilitary Career Fair, will take place from 11
a.m. until 3 p.m. in the Club Lounge Northeast at
Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts. 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 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.
Boston, MA June 28, 2007 -- The military-to-civilian
recruiting firm RecruitMilitary will present a free
hiring event for job seekers who have military
backgrounds in the Boston region on Thursday, July 12.
This event, the RecruitMilitary Career Fair, will take
place from 11 a.m. until 3 p.m. in the Club Lounge
Northeast at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough,
Massachusetts. 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 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.
RecruitMilitary will produce the Boston 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 21st of 45 RecruitMilitary Career
Fairs scheduled for 2007. During 14 such events produced
from January through May, an average of 30-plus
organizations interviewed an average of over 450 job
seekers.
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 Paul A.
Morin, an Army veteran, of Chicopee, Massachusetts. The
Commander of the Department of Massachusetts is Lee
Plummer, a veteran of the United States Navy. 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. 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 159,000, 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.
In Cincinnati:
Drew Myers
President
RecruitMilitary LLC
800-226-0841
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