DAV RecruitMilitary Vet Job Fair Coming to Houston on June 24

LOVELAND, Ohio - May 21, 2015 - PRLog -- DAV and the military-to-civilian recruitment firm RecruitMilitary will produce an All Veterans Career Fair at Minute Maid Park on Wednesday, June 24, 2015. DAV and RecruitMilitary are 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. The event will run from 11 a.m. until 3 p.m.

RecruitMilitary expects 65 employers, franchisors, educational institutions, and government agencies to reserve exhibitor booths at the Expo. Those already signed up are DAV; The Home Depot; Marathon Oil Corp.; Petro Log International, Inc.; Entergy; JP Morgan Chase; Enterprise Products; Coverall North America, Inc.; Dairy Farmers of America, Inc.; Mustang Caterpillar; Lone Star College; MIAT College of Technology; Builder's Academy; Neff Rental; Combined Insurance; Department of Veteran Affairs (VESO); Inland Pipe Rehabilitation; Indiana Tech Law School; Military Sealift Command; NRG Energy; Penske Truck Leasing; Dunbar Armored, Inc.; The Home Depot - Home Services; Hoist and Crane Service Group; Comcast; CenterPoint Energy; Men’s Wearhouse; Schneider National, Inc.; The Strayer University; Dahill; Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris; Enterprise Rent-A-Car Company; Equipment Depot; Baytown Police Department; The Home Depot – Supply; Seal Tech, Inc.; Harris County Sheriff's Office; Texas Army National Guard; Air Liquide USA, LLC; Sunbelt Rentals; Veteran Franchise Center; New Horizons Computer Learning Center; The Kroger Company; Heavy Construction Academy; St. Michael's Learning Academy; Bed, Bath & Beyond; Veolia ES Industrial Services; Aviation Institute of Maintenance; TEEX; DaVita; Heavy Equipment College of Oklahoma; Mustang Caterpillar; Celadon Trucking Services; First Command Financial Planning; MyComputerCareer.com; and The Art Institutes.

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 "Five Steps to Informed Financial Transition.” All veterans are welcome to attend this session intended to provide information for veterans and spouses to use as they consider their future retirement.

DAV personnel will be on hand to answer veterans’ questions about benefits and to provide them with other valuable information.

DAV was founded by World War I veterans in Cincinnati in 1920 and chartered by the United States Congress in 1932. The organization empowers veterans to lead high-quality lives with respect and dignity. It is dedicated to a single purpose: fulfilling our promises to the men and women who served. DAV does this by ensuring that veterans and their families can access the full range of benefits available to them; fighting for the interests of America’s injured heroes on Capitol Hill; and educating the public about the great sacrifices and needs of veterans transitioning back to civilian life. DAV (www.dav.org) is a non-profit organization with 1.2 million members.

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.

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 (August 27, November 19); Denver (August 27); Hartford, Connecticut (July 9); Houston (September 10, December 3); Indianapolis (July 9, December 10); Jacksonville (December 3); Kansas City (September 24); Las Vegas (December 10); Los Angeles (June 18, November 5); Louisville (August 20); Miami (September 10); Milwaukee (October 29); Minneapolis (October 15); Nashville (September 17); New Orleans (August 13); New York (September 17); Norfolk (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).