The Big Apple to Host Veteran Career Fair on May 22

LOVELAND, Ohio - April 18, 2014 - PRLog -- Cincinnati, OH – The military-to-civilian recruitment firm RecruitMilitary will produce a Veteran Opportunity Expo, a hiring event for veterans and other men and women with military backgrounds, at the New Yorker Hotel, 481 Eighth Avenue in New York City on Thursday, May 22, 2014 from 11 a.m. until 3 p.m. RecruitMilitary is inviting veterans who already have civilian work experience, personnel who are transitioning from active duty to civilian life, members of the National Guard and reserves, military spouses, and other military family members.

RecruitMilitary expects more than 50 employers, franchisors, educational institutions, and government agencies to reserve exhibitor booths at the Expo. Already signed up are Merck & Company; USAA; Lockheed Martin; The Home Depot; New York City Police Department; DeVry University; First Data Corp.; Starwood Hotels and Resorts Worldwide; Veteran Franchise Centers; PSEG; Quest Diagnostics; Bayer Corp.; Capital One; Montefiore Medical Center; Georgia College of Construction; Connecticut State Police; JetBlue Airways; AMC Networks; Gannett Co. Inc.; New York University; New York Power Authority; US Air Force Health Profession Recruiters; School of Visual Arts; Amtrak National Passenger Corp.; JP Morgan Chase & Co.; The Hertz Corporation; Western Union; State Street Corporation; Bank of America; A&E Networks; Core Link Surgical; New York Life; Bristol-Myers Squibb; City of New York Fire Department; Room & Board; USMC; Paul Hastings LLP; Roto-Rooter; Air Force Reserve; MTA NYC Transit; MNYSC HERC; Airstream Renewables; First Command Financial Planning; Prudential Financial; New York Army National Guard; RMS (Risk Management Solutions); The College of Westchester; Johns Hopkins Carey Business School; Heavy Construction Academy; Aviation Institute of Maintenance; The Art Institutes; and Trident University International.

In addition, USAA’s local Wealth Management team is presenting a seminar prior to the career fair at 10:00 a.m. The seminar is titled “Practical Advice for All Stages of Retirement Planning.” All veterans are welcome to attend this session intended to provide information for veterans and spouses as they consider their future retirement.

RecruitMilitary will produce the Expo in cooperation with The American Legion (http://www.legion.org), an association of veterans who served during times of war. The Legion has 2.4 million members in nearly 14,000 posts throughout the world.

RecruitMilitary has scheduled the following additional veteran hiring events through 2014: Atlanta (June 26, 2014; October 30, 2014), Baltimore (May 29, 2014; October 2, 2014), Boston (September 4, 2014), Charlotte (June 5, 2014; November 13, 2014), Chicago (October 9, 2014), Cincinnati (May 29, 2014; October 2, 2014), Columbus (July 24, 2014), Dallas (July 17, 2014; November 13, 2014), Denver (September 11, 2014), Houston (August 7, 2014; December 4, 2014), Indianapolis (July 10, 2014), Jacksonville (November 6, 2014), Kansas City (September 25, 2014), Las Vegas (December 11, 2014), Los Angeles (June 19, 2014; October 23, 2014), Minneapolis (August 7, 2014), Nashville (August 14, 2014), New Orleans (September 18, 2014), New York (September 18, 2014), Norfolk (November 20, 2014), Oakland (October 9, 2014), Oklahoma City (June 12, 2014), Philadelphia (July 24, 2014; November 6, 2014), Phoenix (October 16, 2014), Pittsburgh (October 16, 2014), Richmond (August 21, 2014), Saint Louis (July 10, 2014), San Antonio (September 11, 2014), San Diego (August 14, 2014; December 4, 2014), Seattle (June 5, 2014; November 20, 2014), Tampa (August 28, 2014), and Washington (June 26, 2014).

RecruitMilitary has produced Opportunity Expos since 2006.

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The company also offers subscriptions (search licenses) to its database of more than 679,000 registered candidates at http://www.recruitmilitary.com, retained hiring services, and advertising space in online and print media. RecruitMilitary distributes more than 65,000 copies of each issue of Search & Employ®, a bimonthly print magazine, to military bases throughout the world, National Guard and reserve units, job seekers who attend RecruitMilitary Veteran Opportunity Expos, and military-to-civilian recruiters nationwide. The company was founded in 1998, and is located in Loveland, Ohio (Greater Cincinnati). The CEO and president of RecruitMilitary is Peter Gudmundsson, a former officer in the United States Marine Corps.

RecruitMilitary’s website has received two consecutive User’s Choice Awards from Weddle’s (http://www.weddles.com) for 2013 and 2014. Weddle’s is a publisher of guides and directories that focus on the employment-related area of the Internet. The awards are a result of a year-long annual survey conducted by Weddle’s to recognize “the elite of the online employment industry.” The judges are recruiters and job seekers who have used the sites.

In 2012, RecruitMilitary received the first annual One More Way Award from The Sierra Group Foundation. The foundation established the award to recognize people or companies whose support results in awareness of, and job opportunities for, people with disabilities. The Sierra Group Foundation (http://www.thesierragroup.com/foundation.htm) is a non-profit organization whose mission is “to drive up employment for people with disabilities, including veterans.”

In 2011, RecruitMilitary received the First Annual Lee Anderson Small Business Veteran and Military Spouse Employment Award from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce (http://www.uschamber.com). The Chamber recognized RecruitMilitary as a specific business that has “gone above and beyond to honor the sacrifices our military families make in their service to our nation.”