RecruitMilitary Veterans Career Fair Coming to Oklahoma City on June 11

LOVELAND, Ohio - May 8, 2015 - PRLog -- The military-to-civilian recruitment firm RecruitMilitary will produce an All Veterans Career Fair at Chevy Bricktown Events Center on Thursday, June 11, 2015. 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. Seventy-Seven Energy will sponsor the event, which will run from 11 a.m. until 3 p.m.

RecruitMilitary expects 35 employers, franchisors, educational institutions, and government agencies to have reserve exhibitor booths at the Expo. Those already signed up are Seventy Seven Energy; The Home Depot; Johnson Controls, Inc.; Vinnell Arabia; Seagate Technology; FedEx Ground; Lockheed Martin; MidFirst Bank; Cox Enterprises; Allstate; Heritage Institute; Department of Veteran Affairs (VESO); Blackhawk Industrial; Logix Communications; Labor Ready; Republic Services Procurement, Inc.; Department of Public Safety - Texas Highway Patrol; McCoy's Building Supply; AdvancePierre Foods; Scott-Macon Equipment; Oklahoma Army National Guard; American Truck Training, Inc.; TravelCenters of America / Petro Stopping Centers; First Command Financial Planning; New Horizons Computer Learning Center; Veteran Franchise Center; Heavy Construction Academy; U.S. Army Recruiting; Heavy Equipment College of Oklahoma; Roadmaster Drivers School; and The Art Institutes.

RecruitMilitary has produced veteran job fairs since 2006. By the end of 2015, the company will have produced more than 670 events in over 60 cities.

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RecruitMilitary also offers subscriptions (search licenses) to its database of more than 760,000 registered candidates at http://www.recruitmilitary.com, job postings, targeted email campaigns, retained hiring services, and advertising space in online and print media. The company publishes Search & Employ^®, a bimonthly print and digital magazine; and distributes more than 50,000 print copies of each issue to military installations throughout the world, National Guard and reserve units, job seekers who attend RecruitMilitary job fairs, 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 received User’s Choice Awards from Weddle’s (http://www.weddles.com) in 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 Foundation’s Hiring Our Heroes program (http://www.uschamber.com). The program 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.” In 2013, the company was a finalist for the Capital One Award for Small Business Veteran and Military Spouse Employment.

RecruitMilitary has scheduled the following additional veteran job fairs through December 2015: Atlanta (June 25, October 8); Austin (October 15);  Baltimore (June 4, October 1; Birmingham (August 27); Boston (September 3); Charlotte (October 29); Chicago (October 8); Cincinnati (May 28, October 1); Cleveland (September 3); Columbus (July 30, November 5); Columbia, South Carolina (September 24); Dallas (May 14, August 27, November 19); Denver (August 27); Detroit (June 18); Hartford, Connecticut (July 9); Houston (June 24, September 10, December 3); Indianapolis (July 9, December 10); Jacksonville (December 3); Kansas City (September 24); Las Vegas (May 14, December 10); Los Angeles (June 18, November 5); Louisville (August 20); Miami (September 10); Milwaukee (May 21, October 29); Minneapolis (October 15); Nashville (September 17); New Orleans (August 13); New York (May 21, September 17); Norfolk (May 14, November 12); Oakland (October 9, 2014; May 7); Oklahoma City (June 11, October 22); Orlando (December 10); Philadelphia (July 23, November 19); Phoenix (September 24); Pittsburgh (October 22); Portland (July 16); Raleigh (August 6); Richmond (August 20); Riverside, California (September 17); Sacramento (July 23); St. Louis (July 16, November 12); San Antonio (September 3); San Diego (August 6, December 3); San Jose (October 29); Seattle (June 4, November 12); Tampa (August 13); and Washington (June 18, November 5).