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Career Fair for Military
Veterans and Spouses Coming to
Baltimore on May 29
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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 Baltimore on
Thursday, May 29. This event, the RecruitMilitary Career
Fair, will take place from 11 a.m. until 3 p.m. at M&T
Bank Stadium, home of the Baltimore Ravens.
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.
Baltimore, MD April 16, 2008 -- The
military-to-civilian recruiting firm RecruitMilitary
will present a free hiring event for job seekers who
have military backgrounds in Baltimore on Thursday, May
29. This event, the RecruitMilitary Career Fair, will
take place from 11 a.m. until 3 p.m. at M&T Bank
Stadium, home of the Baltimore Ravens. 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 43rd of 104 RecruitMilitary
Career Fairs scheduled for 2008. Additional events will
take place in Baltimore on August 21 and November 20.
RecruitMilitary will also produce career fairs in the DC
Metro Area on May 1 and September 11; in Philadelphia on
July 10 and November 20; in Newark on September 25; and
in Norfolk on June 5 and September 25.
An all-star team of 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 DeVry University, Eaton Aerospace -
Conveyance Systems Division, Fitzgerald Auto Mall,
Lockheed Martin Corporation, Military Sealift Command,
the Military Spouse Corporate Career Network, MVM, Inc.,
Oldcastle Architectural Products Group, Orkin, Pepco
Holdings, the Transportation Security Administration,
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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