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RecruitMilitary Career Fair for Military Veterans and Military Spouses Coming to Cincinnati on September 6 |
The military-to-civilian recruiting firm
RecruitMilitary will present a free hiring event for job
seekers who have military backgrounds in Cincinnati on
Thursday, September 6. This event, the RecruitMilitary
Career Fair, will take place from 11 a.m. until 3 p.m.
in the East Club Lounge at Paul Brown Stadium. 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 45 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.
Cincinnati, OH August 27, 2007 -- The
military-to-civilian recruiting firm RecruitMilitary
will present a free hiring event for job seekers who
have military backgrounds in Cincinnati on Thursday,
September 6. This event, the RecruitMilitary Career
Fair, will take place from 11 a.m. until 3 p.m. in the
East Club Lounge at Paul Brown Stadium. 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 45
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 Cincinnati 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 30th 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 Cincinnati are Advics
Manufacturing Ohio, Ardus Medical, Avon Products, Baker
Concrete Construction, Cargill, Cincinnati Machine,
CitiGroup, Clean Harbors Environmental Services, CSX,
Denny's, Edison Welding Institute, Goodyear Tire &
Rubber Company, Hanson Building Materials America, Hi-Tek
Manufacturing, Industrial Distribution Group, Jurgensen
Companies, the Kroger Company, the Lincoln Electric
Company, Lowe's, Military Sealift Command, the Military
Spouse Corporate Career Network, Mitchco International,
Modern Woodmen of America, the Montgomery County Police
Department, Norwegian Cruise Lines, the Ohio Army
National Guard, Oldcastle Architectural Products Group,
O'Neil & Associates, Pitney Bowes, Pole/Zero
Corporation, Reynolds & Reynolds, Ryder, Schneider
National, the Tacoma Police Department, TECO Transport,
Thyssenkrupp Elevator, Total Quality Logistics, the
Transportation Security Command, the United States Army
Recruiting Command, the United States Border Patrol,
University Alliance, VeraSun, the Veterans Benefits
Administration, and Woodmen of the World.
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 Ohio is Michael D. Morman,
a veteran of the Marine Corps. 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 Loveland, Ohio (Greater
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 170,000, at its Web site,
www.recruitmilitary.com ; advertising in online and
print media; and contingency and retained hiring
services. The company mails more than 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.
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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