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RecruitMilitary Career Fair for Military
Veterans and Military Spouses Coming to Baltimore on
November 1
The military-to-civilian recruiting firm
RecruitMilitary will present a free hiring event for job
seekers who have military backgrounds on Thursday,
November 1, in Baltimore, Maryland. This event, the
RecruitMilitary Career Fair, will take place from 11
a.m. until 3 p.m. on the South Club Level of M&T
Stadium, home of the Baltimore Ravens. 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 40
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.
Baltimore, MD October 24, 2007 -- The
military-to-civilian recruiting firm RecruitMilitary
will present a free hiring event for job seekers who
have military backgrounds on Thursday, November 1, in
Baltimore, Maryland. This event, the RecruitMilitary
Career Fair, will take place from 11 a.m. until 3 p.m.
on the South Club Level of M&T Stadium, home of the
Baltimore Ravens. 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 40
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 Baltimore 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 39th of 45
RecruitMilitary Career Fairs scheduled for 2007. During
33 such events produced from January through September,
an average of 30-plus organizations interviewed an
average of over 400 job seekers.
Already in the line-up for Baltimore are Alliance
Tech Systems, Baltimore County Police Department,
Baltimore Police Department, Becon Construction Company
- Bechtel, CACI, Clean Harbors Environmental Services,
Computer Sciences Corporation, Concentric Security, LLC,
CPS TSA Transportation Security Administration, CPS: TSA
Transportation Security Administration, CSX, DeVry
University, F.A. Bartlett Tree Experts, Fairfax County
Sheriff's Office, GEICO Direct, Inland Technologies
Int'l Ltd., L-3 GSI, Lowe's, Maryland State Department
of Education, MD Dept of Public Safety & Correctional
Services, Microsoft Corporation, Montgomery County
Police Department, MVM, Inc, Oldcastle Architectural,
Inc., Prince George's County Police Department, Ryder
System, Inc., Schlumberger, The Boeing Company - Support
Systems, and Wal-Mart Stores, 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 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 176,000, 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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