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RecruitMilitary Career Fair
for Military Veterans and Military Spouses
Coming to Cincinnati area on February 7
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CINCINNATI January 9, 2008 - The military-to-civilian
recruiting firm RecruitMilitary will present a free
hiring event for job seekers who have military
backgrounds in the Cincinnati area on Thursday, February
7. This event, the RecruitMilitary Career Fair, will
take place from 11 a.m. until 3 p.m. at the Northern
Kentucky Convention Center in Covington. RecruitMilitary
urges all job seekers who have 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 Cincinnati VA
Medical Center, EC III, Lockheed Martin Corporation,
Military Sealift Command, the Military Spouse Corporate
Career Network, Oldcastle Architectural Products Group,
Stanley Steemer, and the Veterans Benefits
Administration.
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 seventh of 104 RecruitMilitary
Career Fairs scheduled for 2008. Two more events will
take place in the Cincinnati area this year-on May 1 and
September 4. RecruitMilitary will also produce career
fairs in Cleveland on June 26 and October 23 and in
Columbus on June 12 and October 29.
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, CBS, 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 Kentucky is Sidney Shouse,
and the Commander of the Department of Ohio is Mike
Morman. 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 186,000, 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.
Drew Myers
President
RecruitMilitary LLC
800-226-0841
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