RecruitMilitary Veteran Opportunity Expo Coming to Philadelphia on July 23

LOVELAND, Ohio - June 22, 2015 - PRLog -- The military-to-civilian recruitment firm RecruitMilitary will produce a veteran recruiting event at Lincoln Financial Field on Thursday, July 23, 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. The event will run from 11 a.m. until 3 p.m.

RecruitMilitary expects 65 employers, franchisors, educational institutions, and government agencies to have reserve exhibitor booths at the Expo. Those already signed up are Norfolk Southern Corporation; Lockheed Martin; The Home Depot; Apple, Inc.; Johnson Controls, Inc.; JP Morgan Chase; Seventy Seven Energy; TJX Companies, Inc.; Budget Maintenance, Inc.; Quest Diagnostics; Coverall North America, Inc.; City of Philadelphia; Indian Valley Bulk Carriers, Inc.; Drexel University; Accenture; Navient; USMC; Montgomery Township School District; Lincoln Heritage Life Insurance Company; Storti Quality Consulting; Madison Apartment Group; Pepco Holding, Inc.; Enterprise Holdings; SEI; Planet Energy; The Wendy's Company; The Faulkner Organization; Emerson Electric; Epic Health Services; Enviromed Corp.; Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia; NRG Energy; W. Atlee Burpee Company; U.S. Department of Agriculture – APHIS; Indiana Tech Law School; DC Metropolitan Police Department; McAllister Towing; Philadelphia Gas Works; Main Line Health Inc.; Asplundh Tree Expert Co.; Powerhouse Equipment; Belfor; Global Employment Solutions; New York Life; Peace Corps; Combined Insurance; First Command Financial Planning; Prudential Financial; Edward Jones; Veteran Franchise Center; Heavy Construction Academy; Air Liquide USA, LLC; Pennsylvania Army National Guard; Venezia, Inc.; Aviation Institute of Maintenance; 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.

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 770,000 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 (October 1; Birmingham (August 27); Boston (September 3); Charlotte (October 29); Chicago (October 8); Cincinnati (October 1); Cleveland (September 3); Columbus (July 30, November 5); Columbia, South Carolina (September 24); Dallas (August 27, November 19); Denver (August 27); Hartford (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 (October 22); Orlando (December 10); Philadelphia (November 19); Phoenix (September 24); Pittsburgh (October 22); 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 (November 12); Tampa (August 13); and Washington (June 18, November 5).