Career Fair for Military Veterans and Military Spouses Coming to Boston Area on June 5
Boston, MA (PRWEB) April 16, 2008 -- The military-to-civilian recruiting firm RecruitMilitary will present a free hiring event for job seekers who have military backgrounds in the Boston area on Thursday, June 5. This event, the RecruitMilitary Career Fair, will take place from 11 a.m. until 3 p.m. at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts. 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 45th of 104 RecruitMilitary Career Fairs scheduled for 2008. Another event will take place in the Boston area on September 4. RecruitMilitary will also produce career fairs on Long Island on September 24; in Newark on September 25; and in Philadelphia on July 10 and November 20.
More than 25 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. Already in the line-up are American Medical Response, Ameriprise Financial, the Austin (Texas) Police Department, BAE Systems, CSX, DeVry University, General Dynamics Electric Boat, GE Energy, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), Laird Plastics, Little Caesars Corporation, Lowe's, Military Sealift Command, the Military Spouse Corporate Career Network, Oldcastle Architectural Products Group, Regent University, the Veterans Benefits Administration, Wal-Mart Stores, Walgreens, and Woodmen of the World.
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 Martin F. Conatser, an Army veteran, of Champaign, Illinois. The Commander of the Department of Massachusetts is Lee Plummer, 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 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 200,000, at its Web site, www.recruitmilitary.com , advertising in online and print media, and retained hiring services. The company mails more than 51,500 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.
Contact:
Drew Myers
President
RecruitMilitary LLC
800-226-0841
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