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RecruitMilitary Career Fair for Military Veterans and Military Spouses Coming to Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex on December 13
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CINCINNATI November 16, 2007 -- The military-to-civilian
recruiting firm RecruitMilitary will present a free
hiring event for job seekers who have military
backgrounds in the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex on
Thursday, December 13. This event, the RecruitMilitary
Career Fair, will take place from 11 a.m. until 3 p.m.
in the Stadium Club at Texas Stadium, home of the Dallas
Cowboys, in Irving, Texas. The 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 45
veteran-friendly organizations will conduct one-on-one
interviews with the job seeker -- organizations that will
include corporate employers, law-enforcement agencies
and other government employers, educational
institutions, veterans service agencies, and veterans
associations.
RecruitMilitary will produce the Dallas/Fort Worth
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 last of 45
RecruitMilitary Career Fairs scheduled for 2007. More
than 500 organizations attended 38 such events produced
from January through October. At those events, an
average of 30-plus organizations interviewed an average
of over 350 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. RecruitMilitary has scheduled 104
career fairs for 2008, including 3 in Austin, 3 in
Dallas, 2 in Fort Worth, and 4 in Houston.
Already in the line-up for the Texas Stadium event are
AFLAC, American Eagle Airlines, American Eurocopter,
Ameriprise Financial Services, AutoNation, Bally Total
Fitness, Bank of America, Becon Construction Company,
Bell Helicopter, Buckeye International, California
Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, Cargill,
Cash America Pawn, City of Lewisville, CVS/pharmacy,
Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART), Dallas Baptist
University, Dallas Independent School District,
Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport, First Command
Financial Planning, Frozen Foods Express, Hanson
Building Materials America, L-3 Communications
Integrated Systems, Lear Siegler Services, Malin
Integrated Handling Solutions and Design, the Military
Spouse Corporate Career Network, Modern Woodmen of
America, Northcentral University, Phelps Dodge
Corporation, Precision Well Logging, Ryder, Schlumberger
Oilfield Services, Schneider National, ServiceMaster
Clean/Furniture Medic, T-Mobile, Trinity Industries, the
Transportation Security Administration, TXU Energy,
University of Phoenix Dallas/Fort Worth Campus, the
Veterans Benefits Administration, Walgreens, Wal-Mart,
and Woodmen of the World.
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 Texas is Paul Dillard of
Whitesboro, a Navy Veteran. 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. The President and founder is Deb
Kloeppel, a military spouse.
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 182,000, 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.
In Cincinnati:
Drew Myers
President
RecruitMilitary LLC
800-226-0841
In Dallas/Fort Worth:
Mike Rollins
National Account Executive
RecruitMilitary, LLC
214-907-8806
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