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RecruitMilitary Career Fair
Coming to the Raleigh on February 28
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The military-to-civilian
recruiting firm RecruitMilitary will
present a free hiring event for job
seekers who have military backgrounds in
Raleigh on Thursday, February 28. This
event, the RecruitMilitary Career Fair,
will take place from 11 a.m. until 3
p.m. at Carter-Finley Stadium, home of
the North Carolina State Wolfpack.
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.
Raleigh, NC February 22, 2008 -- The
military-to-civilian recruiting firm RecruitMilitary will present a free
hiring event for job seekers who have
military backgrounds in Raleigh on
Thursday, February 28. This event, the
RecruitMilitary Career Fair, will take
place from 11 a.m. until 3 p.m. at
Carter-Finley Stadium, home of the North
Carolina State Wolfpack. 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.
The event will be the 14th of 104
RecruitMilitary Career Fairs scheduled
for 2008. Twenty-three of them will take
place in the Southeast--2 in Raleigh, 4
in Atlanta, 2 in Birmingham, 4 in
Charlotte, 3 in Jacksonville, 2 in
Miami, 2 in St. Petersburg, 2 in
Savannah, and 2 in Tampa.
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
AT&T (Cingular Wireless), Brink's Home
Security Inc, Communications
International, CORMETECH, Inc., CPI
Security Systems, Defense Intelligence
Agency, DeVry University, ECIII, Headway
Corporate Resources, Loomis, MetLife -
The Carolinas Agency, North Carolina Air
National Guard, Southeastern Freight
Lines, St. Augustine's, Strayer
University, The Entrepreneur's Source,
and Woodmen of the World.
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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).
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 California is Howard
Darter. 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.
Drew Myers
President
RecruitMilitary LLC
800-226-0841
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