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RecruitMilitary
Career Fair for Military Veterans and
Military Spouses Coming to Denver on
August 9
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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 Denver on
Thursday, August 9. This event, the RecruitMilitary
Career Fair, will take place from 11 a.m. until 3 p.m.
at the Wings Over the Rockies Air and Space Museum,
former home of Lowry Air Force Base. 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.
Denver, CO August 2, 2007 -- The military-to-civilian
recruiting firm RecruitMilitary will present a free
hiring event for job seekers who have military
backgrounds in Denver on Thursday, August 9. This event,
the RecruitMilitary Career Fair, will take place from 11
a.m. until 3 p.m. at the Wings Over the Rockies Air and
Space Museum, former home of Lowry Air Force Base. 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 event 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 25th of 45 RecruitMilitary Career Fairs scheduled
for 2007. During 19 such events produced from January
through June, an average of 30-plus organizations
interviewed an average of over 425 job seekers.
The line-up for Denver already includes The Wackenhut
Corporation, Lockheed Martin Corporation, Oldcastle
Architectural, Inc., United States Border Patrol, Modern
Woodmen of America, Schneider National, First Command
Financial Planning, Enterprise Rent-A-Car Company,
Phelps Dodge Corporation, Colorado Technical University
- Denver, Wyoming Department of Corrections, Eaton
Corporation, Wells Fargo Bank, Small Business
Administration, Anheuser-Busch Inc, Colorado Army
National Guard, Barrick Goldstrike, Bayard Advertising,
Sierra Nevada Corporation and Westwood College.
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.
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 163,000, 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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