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RecruitMilitary Career Fair
for Military Veterans and Military Spouses
Coming to Atlanta on November 8
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The military-to-civilian recruiting firm
RecruitMilitary will present a free hiring event for job
seekers who have military backgrounds on Thursday,
November 8, at the Georgia International Convention
Center in College Park (Greater Atlanta).
Atlanta, GA October 24, 2007 -- The
military-to-civilian recruiting firm RecruitMilitary
will present a free hiring event for job seekers who
have military backgrounds on Thursday, November 8, at
the Georgia International Convention Center in College
Park (Greater Atlanta).
This event, the RecruitMilitary Career Fair, will be
open to 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 40
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. The career fair hours will be 11 a.m. to 3
p.m.
RecruitMilitary will produce the Atlanta 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 40th of 45 RecruitMilitary Career
Fairs scheduled for 2007. During 33 such events produced
from January through September, an average of 30-plus
organizations interviewed an average of over 400 job
seekers.
Already in the line-up for Atlanta are American
Eurocopter, Carolina Handling, CEC Entertainment,
Colonial Life & Accident Ins, Columbia Southern
University, DeVry University, Enterprise Rent-A-Car C0.,
F.A. Bartlett Tree Experts, Federal Reserve Bank of
Atlanta, Frozen Foods Express, Hanson Building
Materials, Intelsat Corporation, Kiewit Federal, L-3
Communications Integrated Systems, Miami Dade County
Public Schools, Modern Woodmen of America, Oldcastle
Architectural, Inc., Open Source Center - Central
Intelligence Agency, Railserve, Schlumberger, Schneider
National, Six Flags Atlanta Properties, StoreLink Retail
Group, STS/UtiliQuest LLC, T-Mobile, The Wackenhut
Corporation, TMP Worldwide - Brinks Home Security,
United States Border Patrol, UPS Supply Chain Solutions,
Waffle House, Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., Walgreens,
Westinghouse Anniston, and Woodmen of the World.
RecruitMilitary will produce the Atlanta 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 40th of 45 RecruitMilitary Career
Fairs scheduled for 2007. During 33 such events produced
from January through September, an average of 30-plus
organizations interviewed an average of over 400 job
seekers.
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.
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 recruiters 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 177,000, at its Web site,
www.recruitmilitary.com ; advertising in online and
print media; and contingency 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.
RecruitMilitary produced 13 career fairs in 2006.
More than 225 organizations and over 8,000 job seekers
attended those events. The career fairs generated
television coverage by CNBC, ABC, NBC, and CNN; radio
coverage by ESPN and numerous regional stations; and
articles in several newspapers. RecruitMilitary has
scheduled 104 career fairs for 2008.
In Cincinnati:
Drew Myers
President
RecruitMilitary LLC
800-226-0841
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