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RecruitMilitary Career Fair for Military
Veterans and Military Spouses Coming to
Nashville on August 23 |
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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 Nashville on
Thursday, August 23. This event, the RecruitMilitary
Career Fair, will take place from 11 a.m. until 3 p.m.
in the Stadium Club West at LP Field, home of the
Tennessee Titans. 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.
Nashville, TN August 3, 2007 -- The
military-to-civilian recruiting firm RecruitMilitary
will present a free hiring event for job seekers who
have military backgrounds in Nashville on Thursday,
August 23. This event, the RecruitMilitary Career Fair,
will take place from 11 a.m. until 3 p.m. in the Stadium
Club West at LP Field, home of the Tennessee Titans. 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 Nashville 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 27th of 45
RecruitMilitary Career Fairs scheduled for 2007. During
24 such events produced from January through July, an
average of 30-plus organizations interviewed an average
of over 425 job seekers. Already in the line-up for
Nashville are the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI),
H&E Equipment Services, Inc., Military Sealift Command,
Bethel College, the Military Spouse Corporate Career
Network, Modern Woodmen of America, Oldcastle
Architectural Products Group, Schneider National, TECO
Transportation Corporation, T-Mobile, the United States
Border Patrol, Wackenhut Corporation, Walgreens, Woodmen
of the World, and Weathershield Construction.
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 Tennessee is Gary R.
Drennon. 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 167,000, 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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