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RecruitMilitary Career Fair
for Military Veterans and Military Spouses
Coming to Phoenix on January 17
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CINCINNATI January 2, 2008-The military-to-civilian
recruiting firm RecruitMilitary will present a free
hiring event for job seekers who have military
backgrounds in Phoenix on Thursday, January 17, 2008.
This event, the RecruitMilitary Career Fair, will take
place from 11 a.m. until 3 p.m. at US Airways Center,
home of the Phoenix Suns. RecruitMilitary urges all job
seekers with military backgrounds to attend-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. Already in the line-up are Charles Schwab
& Co., DeVry University, Ellis College of New York
Institute of Technology, Freeport-McMoran Copper & Gold,
Gilbert Police Department, Lockheed Martin Corporation,
the Military Spouse Corporate Career Network, Oldcastle
Architectural Products Group, Prudential
Financial,
ServiceMaster Clean/Furniture Medic, Stanley Steemer,
The Dwyer Group, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, and
University of Phoenix.
RecruitMilitary will produce the 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 second of 104 RecruitMilitary Career
Fairs scheduled for 2008. Sixteen of them will take
place in the Pacific Southwest-3 in Phoenix, 2 in
California's Inland Empire, 2 in Las Vegas, 2 in Long
Beach, 2 in Orange County, 3 in Sacramento, and 2 in San
Diego.
More than 500 organizations attended 45 RecruitMilitary
Career Fairs in 2007. At those events, an average of
30-plus organizations interviewed an average of over 325
job seekers. RecruitMilitary Career Fairs conducted in
2006 and 2007 generated television coverage by CNBC,
ABC, NBC, and CNN; radio coverage by ESPN and numerous
regional stations; and articles in metropolitan and
local newspapers.
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. The
Commander of the Department of Arizona is Bruce Conklin.
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.
RecruitMilitary, based in Cincinnati, connects employers
with job seekers who have military backgrounds. All of
the company's owners, officers, account executives, and
retained search consultants 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 185,000, at its Web site,
www.recruitmilitary.com; advertising in online and print
media; 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.
Contact:
Drew Myers
President
RecruitMilitary LLC
800-226-0841
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