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 San Diego Region on Thursday, December 13. This event, the RecruitMilitary Career Fair, will take place from 11 a.m. until 3 p.m. at California Center for the Arts, Escondido. 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 35 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.

RecruitMilitary will produce the San Diego 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 44th 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 Sacramento, 2 in San Diego, 2 in Long Beach, 2 in Orange County, and 2 in the Inland Empire, .

Already in the line-up for the December 13 event are the Arizona Department of Public Safety, ATK Mission Systems Group, Bally Total Fitness, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, Coverall Cleaning Concepts, DeVry University, EC III, El Centro Regional Medical Center, Hanson Building Materials America, Health Net Federal Services, Interfaith Community Services, Lockheed Martin Corporation, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, Los Angeles Port Police, Makino Inc., Military Sealift Command, the Military Spouse Corporate Career Network, Nouveau Riche University, Optima Network Services, PDS Technical Service, Pestmaster Franchise Network, Phelps Dodge Corporation, Riverside Transit Agency, the San Bernardino County Sheriff-Coroner Department, the San Diego County Sheriff's Department, the San Francisco Police Department, Schneider National, the Transportation Security Administration, the United States Border Patrol, the Veterans Benefits Administration, Wackenhut Corporation, Walgreens, and the Wyoming Department of Workforce Services.

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. 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 Southern California:
Jasen Williams
National Account Executive
RecruitMilitary, LLC
951-244-2017