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RecruitMilitary
Career Fair for Military Veterans and
Military Spouses Coming to Dallas/Fort
Worth Region on July 11
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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 Dallas/Fort
Worth region on Wednesday, July 11. This event, the
RecruitMilitary Career Fair, will take place from 11
a.m. until 3 p.m. in the Stadium Club at Texas Stadium,
home of the Dallas Cowboys, in Irving, Texas. 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 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.
Dallas, TX June 30, 2007 -- The military-to-civilian
recruiting firm RecruitMilitary will present a free
hiring event for job seekers who have military
backgrounds in the Dallas/Fort Worth region on
Wednesday, July 11. This event, the RecruitMilitary
Career Fair, will take place from 11 a.m. until 3 p.m.
in the Stadium Club at Texas Stadium, home of the Dallas
Cowboys, in Irving, Texas. 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 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.
RecruitMilitary will produce the Dallas/Fort Worth
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 20th of 45
RecruitMilitary Career Fairs scheduled for 2007. During
10 such events produced from January through April, an
average of 30-plus organizations interviewed an average
of over 500 job seekers. The line-up for Dallas/Fort
Worth already includes F.A. Bartlett Tree Experts,
AutoNation - TMP, Walgreens, Taco Cabana, State Farm
Insurance, University of Phoenix Dallas/Ft. Worth
Campus, CVS Corp, Bisk Education, Inc./University
Alliance, Phelps Dodge Corporation, American Eurocopter,
LLC, T-Mobile, Bank of America, Modern Woodmen of
America, Cisco Systems, Oldcastle Architectural, Inc.,
Columbia Southern University, Cash America, L-3
Communications Integrated Systems, State Farm Insurance
Co., Austin Police Department, Aaron Rents, Inc., Frozen
Foods Express, Hanson Building Materials, Lattimore
Material Co., X-DOT, Inc., AFLAC, and Ryder System, Inc.
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 Texas is C. W. "Butch"
Sparks of Pearland, an Air Force 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. 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 157,000, 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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