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Career Fair for Military, Veterans Comes to Atlanta Nov. 8
Fort Stewart Lifestyle
Original Story
CINCINNATI - The military-to-civilian
recruiting firm RecruitMilitary will present a
free hiring event for job seekers who have military
backgrounds on Nov. 8, at the Georgia
International Convention Center in College
Park (Greater Atlanta). This event, the
RecruitMilitary 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 35 veteran-friendly
organizations will conduct one-on-one interviews
with the job seekers-organizations
that will include corporate employers, lawenforcement
agencies and other government
employers, educational institutions, veterans
service agencies, and veterans associations.
The career fair hours will be 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
RecruitMilitary will produce the Atlanta
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. The event
will be the 40th 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 Atlanta are
American Eurocopter, Brinks Home Security,
the Central Intelligence Agency , Colonial Life
and Accident Insurance, Columbia Southern
University, DeVry University, Enterprise Rent-
A-Car Company, Frozen Foods Express,
Hanson Building Materials America, Kiewit
Federal, L-3 Communications Integrated
Systems, Miami Dade County Public Schools,
the Military Spouse Corporate Career
Network, Modern Woodmen of America,
Oldcastle Architectural Products Group,
Schlumberger, Schneider National, Six Flags
Atlanta, StoreLink Retail Group, T-Mobile,
U.S. Border Patrol, Utiliquest, Inc., the
Veterans Benefits Administration, Wackenhut
Corporation, Walgreens, Wal-Mart Stores, 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 177,000, 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.
RecruitMilitary has scheduled 104 career fairs
for 2008.
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