U.S. Chamber of Commerce and RecruitMilitary Schedule Veteran Hiring Event for Seattle on November 3

Oct. 6, 2011 - PRLog -- The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the military-to-civilian recruitment firm RecruitMilitary will collaborate on a hiring event for military veterans at Safeco Field, home of the Seattle Mariners, on Thursday, November 3. This event, the Hiring Our Heroes/RecruitMilitary Veteran Opportunity Expo, will be part of a nationwide initiative to increase the hiring of veterans by producing special career fair hiring events.

The RecruitMilitary-U.S. Chamber initiative will help Corporate America respond to a challenge issued on August 5 by President Barack Obama. Speaking at the Washington Navy Yard, the President challenged businesses to hire or train 100,000 unemployed veterans or their spouses by the end of 2013.

On March 24, the U.S. Chamber had already launched “Business Steps Up: Hiring Our Heroes,” a year-long effort to help veterans and their spouses find employment by means of veteran hiring events. The U.S. Chamber has scheduled more than 100 Hiring Our Heroes events across the nation through March 2012.

Already scheduled to attend the Seattle event are Amazon, Argosy University, Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway, DeVry University, G4S Secure Solutions (USA), Georgia School of Construction, Grand Canyon University, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), ITT Technical Institute, Lockheed Martin Corporation, Military to Medicine, MultiCare Health System, Nalco Energy Services – Downstream, the National Veterans Employment Program (NVEP) of the United States Department of Veterans Affairs, Northrop Grumman, Pacific Lutheran University Army ROTC, Shoreline Community College, Stanley Steemer, T-Mobile, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), Troy University, USAA, Verizon Wireless, Waste Management Inc., and Zones.

RecruitMilitary will produce five additional Hiring Our Heroes/RecruitMilitary Veteran Opportunity Expos in 2011—on November 10 in Dallas, November 17 in Charlotte and Norfolk, December 1 in San Diego, and December 8 in Houston.

To maximize the number of employers participating in those events as well as the job opportunities for veterans and military spouses, RecruitMilitary is offering companies that are members of the U.S. Chamber and local chambers a 10% discount on the cost of their exhibition booths. Additionally, RecruitMilitary will offer further price reductions for small businesses (businesses that have less than 50 employees), and even lower rates for veteran-owned small businesses.

The U.S. Chamber (http://www.uschamber.com) is the world’s largest business federation representing the interests of more than 3 million businesses of all sizes, sectors, and regions, as well as state and local chambers and industry associations. The Chamber’s mission is “to advance human progress through an economic, political, and social system based on individual freedom, incentive, initiative, opportunity, and responsibility.” More than 96% of U.S. Chamber members are small businesses with 100 employees or less. The Chamber’s strategic partners in its Hiring Our Heroes initiative include the Department of Labor’s Veterans’ Employment and Training Service (VETS; http://www.dol.gov/vets) and Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve (ESGR; http://www.esgr.org).  

RecruitMilitary (http://www.recruitmilitary.com) is the leading for-profit company dedicated exclusively to connecting veterans to great career opportunities in Corporate America. RecruitMilitary has scheduled 8 Veteran Opportunity Expos for November through December 2011 and more than 60 for 2012. Since 2006, the company has produced more than 350 events in over 50 cities. RecruitMilitary produces its Expos in cooperation with The American Legion.

The company also offers employers search licenses to its database of more than 440,000 registered veteran job seekers, retained hiring services, and online and print advertising space. RecruitMilitary distributes more than 36,000 copies of each issue of Search & Employ, its bimonthly print magazine, to over 220 military bases throughout the world, National Guard and reserve units, and job seekers who attend its Expos.

RecruitMilitary is based in Loveland, Ohio (Greater Cincinnati), and was founded in 1998 by Drew Myers, a former Captain in the United States Marine Corps. All of the company’s owners, officers, and senior account executives have served in the armed forces.

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About RecruitMilitary: RecruitMilitary connects employers, franchisors, and educational institutions with job seekers who have military backgrounds--men and women who are transitioning from active duty to civilian life, veterans who already have civilian work experience, members of the National Guard and reserves, and military spouses.