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RecruitMilitary Career Fair
for Military Veterans and Military Spouses
Coming to Houston on January 22
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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 Houston on Tuesday, January 22, 2008.
This event, the RecruitMilitary Career Fair, will take
place from 11 a.m. until 3 p.m. at Minute Maid Park,
home of the Houston Astros. 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 30 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 Aggreko, Becon
Construction Company, BP, Chevron Texaco, Con-way
Freight, Dallas Independent School District, DeVry
University, Dunbar Armored, Evergreen Environmental
Services, Greene's Energy, Houston Metro Transit
Authority, KBR, L-3 Communications Integrated Systems,
Lyondell Chemical Company, Mercury Transportation,
Military Sealift Command, the Military Spouse Corporate
Career Network, Mustang Cat, Northcentral University,
Oldcastle Architectural Products Group, Omni Flow
Computers, Reynolds & Reynolds, the U.S. Border Patrol,
and Worldwide Worker.
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 third of 104 RecruitMilitary Career
Fairs scheduled for 2008. Fifteen of them will take
place in Texas and adjacent states-4 in Houston, 3 in
Austin, 3 in Dallas, 2 in Fort Worth, 1 in New Orleans,
and 2 in Oklahoma City .
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 Texas is Paul Dillard, a
Navy veteran. 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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