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More than 52
Veteran-Friendly Employers and 500 Military
Veteran Job-Seekers Expected at Texas Stadium on
Thursday, December 13, 2007
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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 the Dallas/Fort
Worth Metroplex on Thursday, December 13. Two deserving
veterans will receive tickets to the final Cowboys' home
game against the Philadelphia Eagles as part of
RecruitMilitary's efforts to bring visibility to the
veteran hiring issue. 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 seekers -- organizations that
will include corporate employers, law-enforcement
agencies and other government employers, educational
institutions, veterans service agencies and veterans
associations.
Dallas, Texas December 10, 2007 -- More than 52
Veteran-Friendly Employers and 500 Military Veteran
Job-Seekers expected at Texas Stadium on Thursday,
December 13, 2007. Two deserving veterans will receive
tickets to the final Cowboys' home game against the
Philadelphia Eagles as part of RecruitMilitary's efforts
to bring visibility to the veteran hiring issue.
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 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 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, Air Ad Promotions, American Eagle Airlines,
American Eurocopter, LLC, Ameriprise Financial,
AutoNation - TMP, Bally Total Fitness, Bank of America,
Becon Construction Company - Bechtel, Bell Helicopter
Textron Inc, BrinksInc, Buckeye International, Inc.,
California Department of Corrections. & Rehab., Cargill,
Cash America, City of Lewisville, CPS - Border Patrol
and TSA, CPS TSA Transportation Security Administration,
CVS Corp, Dallas Area Rapid Transit, Dallas Baptist
University, Dallas Independent School District, DeVry
University, DFW International Airport, First Command
Financial Planning, Frozen Foods Express, H&E Equipment
Services, Inc., Hanson Building Materials, Hi-Tech
Electric, L-3 Communications Integrated Systems, Lear
Siegler Services, inc, Malin Integrated Handling
Solutions and Design, MasTec Advanced Technologies,
Modern Woodmen of America, Northcentral University,
Northrop Grumman Technical, Oldcastle Architectural,
Inc., Plano Police Department, Precision Well Logging,
Inc., Ryder System, Inc., Schlumberger, Schneider
National, Stanley Steemer International, T-Mobile, Texas
Health Resources, Trinity Industries, Inc., TXU Energy,
University of Phoenix Dallas/Ft. Worth Campus, Verizon
Communications, Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., Walgreens 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.
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
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