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RecruitMilitary Career Fair for Military
Veterans and Military Spouses Coming to Raleigh
on September 18 |
The military-to-civilian recruiting firm
RecruitMilitary will present a free hiring event for job
seekers who have military backgrounds in Raleigh on
Tuesday, September 18. This event, the RecruitMilitary
Career Fair, will take place from 11 a.m. until 3 p.m.
in the Imax Theatre Building at Exploris Museum. 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 25 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.
Raleigh, NC September 14, 2007 -- The
military-to-civilian recruiting firm RecruitMilitary
will present a free hiring event for job seekers who
have military backgrounds in Raleigh on Tuesday,
September 18. This event, the RecruitMilitary Career
Fair, will take place from 11 a.m. until 3 p.m. in the
Imax Theatre Building at Exploris Museum. 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 25 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 Raleigh 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 32nd of 45 RecruitMilitary Career
Fairs scheduled for 2007. During 29 such events produced
from January through August, an average of 30-plus
organizations interviewed an average of over 400 job
seekers.
Already in the line-up for Raleigh are Advanced
Maintenance, Ameriprise Financial, Asplundh Tree Expert
Company, AT&T, Columbia Southern University, Cormetec,
Corning Cable Systems, CPI Security Systems, DeVry
University, the Fairfax County (Virginia) Sheriff's
Office, First Command Financial Planning, Harris Teeter,
Honeywell Technology Solutions, the Illinois Army
National Guard, Jameson LLC, Kangaroo, Lear Siegler
Services, Loomis, MasTec, the Military Spouse Corporate
Career Network, Modern Woodmen of America, Oldcastle
Architectural Products Group, Schneider National,
University Alliance, the Veterans Benefits
Administration, the Wackenhut Corporation, 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 Martin F.
Conatser, an Army veteran, of Champaign, Illinois.
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 173,000, 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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