Career Fair for Military Veterans and Military Spouses Coming to Houston on December 18
The military-to-civilian recruiting firm RecruitMilitary will present a free hiring event for job seekers who have military backgrounds in Houston on Thursday, December 18. This event, the RecruitMilitary Career Fair, will take place from 11 a.m. until 3 p.m. at Minute Maid Park, home of the Houston Astros. 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.
Houston, TX (Issues Wire / PRWEB) November 26, 2008 -- The military-to-civilian recruiting firm RecruitMilitary will present a free hiring event for job seekers who have military backgrounds in Houston on Thursday, December 18. This event, the RecruitMilitary Career Fair, will take place from 11 a.m. until 3 p.m. at Minute Maid Park, home of the Houston Astros. 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 last of 102 RecruitMilitary Career Fairs scheduled for 2008. 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, franchisors, veterans service agencies, and veterans associations. Already in the line-up are AESI Holdings, Alfred Conhagen Inc. of Texas, AlliedBarton Security Services, Baker Hughes, Brake Check, CEC Entertainment, DeVry University, Greene's Energy, Harris County Sheriff's Office, HMT, Inc., the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), The Kroger Company, Lonestar College System, the Military Spouse Corporate Career Network, Military Sealift Command, Mustang Cat, National Oilwell Varco, Navy Recruiting District Houston, New York Life, Northcentral University, T-Mobile, Transocean Offshore Deepwater Drilling, United States Army National Guard, United States Army Recruiting, United States Border Patrol, Universal Technical Institute, University of Phoenix, the Veterans Benefits Administration, Waukesha-Pearce Industries, and Worldwide Worker.
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, CBS, 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 Dave Rehbein, an Army veteran, of Ames, Iowa. The Commander of the Department of Texas is James A. McNair, an Army veteran, of El Paso. 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, franchisors, and educational institutions with job seekers who have military backgrounds. All of the company's owners, officers, national account executives, and retained search consultants are either veterans or active or former reservists. The founder and president of RecruitMilitary is Drew Myers, formerly a Captain in the United States Marine Corps. Myers founded the company in 1998. In August 2008, RecruitMilitary acquired Landmark Destiny Group (LDG), a military-to-civilian recruiting firm based in Norfolk, Virginia.
In addition to participation in career fairs, RecruitMilitary offers subscriptions to two databases of self-registered job seekers who have military backgrounds. The database at www.recruitmilitary.com currently numbers more than 245,000, and the database at www.destinygroup.com numbers over 300,000.
RecruitMilitary also offers retained hiring services as well as advertising space in online and print media. The company obtained Search & Employ, a bimonthly print magazine, in the LDG acquisition. RecruitMilitary distributes more than 36,000 copies of each issue to over 230 military bases throughout the world, National Guard and reserve units, and job seekers who attend RecruitMilitary Career Fairs. Employers, franchisors, and educational institutions advertise in Search & Employ.
Contact:
Drew Myers
President
RecruitMilitary LLC
800-226-0841
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