Opportunity Expo for Military Veterans and Military Spouses

The military-to-civilian recruiting firm RecruitMilitary will present a free employment, entrepreneurship, and education event for job seekers who have military backgrounds in the Atlanta place on Thursday, December 10. This occasion, the RecruitMilitary Possibility Expo, will take location from 11 a.m. right up until three p.m. at Georgia International Convention Center in College Park. The occasion will be open to veterans who already have civilian work knowledge, males and females who are transitioning from active duty to civilian life, members of the National Guard and reserves, military spouses, and other military family members.

The Chance Expo will be the 67th of 68 such occasions scheduled for 2009. An all-star team of veteran-friendly organizations will conduct one-on-one particular interviews with the job seekers—organizations that will incorporate corporate employers, law-enforcement agencies and other government employers, franchisors, educational institutions, veterans service agencies, and veterans associations.

Currently in the line-up are Aviation Institute of Maintenance, Capella University, the Dallas Police Department, Defense Contract Management Agency, DeVry University, Education Corporation of America—Virginia College On the web, Fleet Enterprises, Grand Canyon University, the Internal Income Service (IRS), Lockheed Martin Corporation, Military Sealift Command, Northrop Grumman, Prudential Insurance coverage Organization, Schlumberger, Shorter College, Strayer University, The Art Institutes, UEI College, and Wackenhut Corporation. RecruitMilitary is expecting at least ten a lot more exhibitors to attend.

RecruitMilitary will generate the Possibility Expo in cooperation with The American Legion HireVetsFirst, a unit of the United States Department of Labor and the Military Spouse Corporate Career Network (MSCCN).

Much more than 1,275 organizations attended 147 RecruitMilitary events in 2007 and 2008. These Expos generated tv coverage by ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, and FOX affiliates as nicely as neighborhood independent channels articles in major metropolitan and local newspapers as properly as The Wall Street Journal and  extensive radio coverage, which includes remote live broadcasts from occasions.

The American Legion (http://www.legion.org) is an association of veterans who served throughout times of war. The Legion has 2.7 million members in nearly 15,000 posts throughout the planet. Congress chartered The American Legion in 1919. HireVetsFirst was designed by Congress in 2002 to create awareness among employers of the outstanding attributes of males and ladies who are transitioning from active duty to civilian life.

The Military Partner Corporate Profession Network (http://www.msccn.org) was founded in 2004 to offer profession opportunities and job portability for military spouses. The organization is created up of military spouses, caregivers to war wounded, and retired military personnel.

WHY EMPLOYERS ATTEND VETERAN EXPOS
Employers are eager to hire veterans for their skill sets and for their individual characteristics such as leadership, initiative, self-discipline, and an outstanding work ethic. In addition, veterans are diverse in gender and ethnicity. Employers attend Expos simply because they can meet hundreds of extremely certified job seekers in the course of a few hours. In addition, their get in touch with with the job seekers starts at what is normally 1 of the last stages of the hiring process—a face-to-face interview.

MILITARY Perform Encounter
Veterans supply civilian employers a wide selection of skill sets that they acquired although in the service. The overwhelming majority of active-duty personnel function in military employment categories that have easily recognizable civilian counterparts, ranging from "Engineering, Science, and Technical" and "Machine Operator and Precision Function" to "Transportation and Materials Handling" and "Executive, Administrative, and Managerial."

In several circumstances, the skills are immediately applicable to in the workplace. In other circumstances, the employers need to supply job-specific training—but the veterans' skill ranges are already so high that they absorb that instruction quickly.

Law-enforcement agencies are eager to hire veterans who had a "Combat Specialty"—often referred to as "Combat Arms." And employers in a wide range of industries worth combat arms veterans for their leadership and selection-generating abilities.

WHY FRANCHISORS ATTEND VETERAN EXPOS
Franchisors are eager to assist set veterans up in business simply because the franchisors worth the veterans' job capabilities, initiative, resourcefulness, and responsibility. In addition, veterans—especially those who served for numerous years—are most likely to have the monetary sources to take care of a franchise investment. Franchisors attend veteran Expos to meet well-certified individuals without possessing to sort them out from big numbers of unsuitable candidates—as they would at standard job fairs or career fairs.

WHY EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS ATTEND VETERAN EXPOS
(1) Veterans make good students due to the fact of the same individual traits that make them great military personnel—initiative, self-discipline, and a excellent work ethic.

(two) Veterans who left active duty not too long ago are eligible for educational positive aspects beneath the GI Bill—for 15 years under the Post-9/11 GI Bill, which took effect last August.

(3) Virtually all veterans who served in the enlisted ranks have at least a high school education, but relatively number of have school degrees. As a result, present and former enlisted personnel are prime candidates for degree-granting institutions. For example, of the much more than 250,000 present and former enlisted personnel who have registered as job seekers in RecruitMilitary's database at www.recruitmilitary.com, only about a single-third have associate's degrees, bachelor's degrees, or graduate degrees.

(4) Of the lower-ranked present and former commissioned officers in the database—lieutenants and captains in the Army, Air Force and Marine Corps ensigns and lieutenants in the Navy and Coast Guard—slightly a lot more than 25% have superior degrees. So the remaining 75% are prime candidates for graduate school.

(five) Recruiters for educational institutions also attend veteran Expos to employ teachers and other staff. Numerous veterans have extremely specialized technical skills as effectively as experience in teaching those abilities to others in the military.

EXPOS SCHEDULED FOR 2010
RecruitMilitary has scheduled 72 Veteran Opportunity Expos for 2010, which includes events in the Atlanta region on March 18, June 24, and October 7. Other venues will incorporate Austin, Baltimore, Birmingham, Boston, Charlotte, Chicago, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Dallas, Denver, Houston, Indianapolis, Jacksonville, Kansas City, Las Vegas, Prolonged Beach, Los Angeles, Miami, Nashville, New Orleans, New York, Norfolk, Oakland, Oklahoma City, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Pittsburgh, Portland, Raleigh, St. Louis, San Diego, San Francisco, San Jose, Tacoma, and Tampa.
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About RecruitMilitary: This Cincinnati-primarily based business connects employers, franchisors, and educational institutions with job seekers who have military backgrounds. All of the company's owners, account executives, and 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. RecruitMilitary has produced Possibility Expos given that 2006. The company also presents subscriptions to its database of far more than 400,000 registered candidates who have military backgrounds at http://www.recruitmilitary.com, retained hiring services, and marketing space in on the web and print media. RecruitMilitary distributes more than 36,000 copies of each and every issue of Search &amp Employ, a bimonthly print magazine, to more than 220 military bases throughout the world, National Guard and reserve units, and job seekers who attend RecruitMilitary Opportunity Expos

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