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Career Fair for Military
Veterans and Spouses Coming to Newark on March
19
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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 Newark on
Wednesday, March 19. This event, the RecruitMilitary
Career Fair, will take place from 11 a.m. until 3 p.m.
at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center.
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.
Newark, NJ March 3, 2008 -- The military-to-civilian
recruiting firm RecruitMilitary will present a free
hiring event for job seekers who have military
backgrounds in Newark on Wednesday, March 19. This
event, the RecruitMilitary Career Fair, will take place
from 11 a.m. until 3 p.m. at the New Jersey Performing
Arts Center. 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 20th of 104 RecruitMilitary
Career Fairs scheduled for 2008. RecruitMilitary will
produce another career fair in Newark on September 25;
events in Philadelphia on March 13, July 10, and
November 20; and career fairs in Flushing, Long Island,
on March 20 and September 24.
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 Bally
Total Fitness, Bartlett Tree Experts, CSX, DeVry
University, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI),
GE Energy, Inspectorate America Corporation, the Lawson
Family of Businesses, Miele, Inc., the Military Spouse
Corporate Career Network, New York Life, the New York
Police Department (NYPD), Osmose Utility Services,
Pennsylvania State Police, Philip Morris USA, Rochester
Police Department, ServiceMaster Clean/Furniture Medic,
the Veterans Benefits Administration, and Walgreens.
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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