U.S. Chamber and RecruitMilitary Collaborating on Vet Hiring Event in Virginia Beach on November 17

Oct. 18, 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 Sandler Center for the Performing Arts in Virginia Beach, Virginia, on Thursday, November 17. 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 event will take place in the main lobby, and will run from 11 a.m. until 3 p.m.

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 event in Virginia Beach are Aviation Institute of Maintenance, Bon Secours – Virginia Health System, Carmax, Cellular Sales of Virginia LLC, Chesapeake Energy Corporation, Chevron, DeVry University, First Command Financial Planning, G4S Secure Solutions (USA), Georgia School of Construction, Grand Canyon University, Ingersoll Rand Company, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), Military Sealift Command, Military to Medicine, Modern Woodmen of America, Morgan State University, the National Veterans Employment Program (NVEP) of the United States Department of Veterans Affairs, Naval Supply Systems Command, Navy Exchange Systems Command, SGS North America Inc., State Farm Insurance Company, The Art Institutes, The Babcock and Wilcox Company, The Home Depot, TMX Finance, Troy University, and Verizon Wireless.  

The Virginia Beach event and an event in Concord, North Carolina, on the same day will be the 10th and 11th of 13 Hiring Our Heroes/RecruitMilitary Veteran Opportunity Expos produced by RecruitMilitary in 2011. The remaining two will take place on 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 eight Veteran Opportunity Expos for November and December 2011 and more than 60 for 2012. Since 2006, the company has produced more than 350 events in over 50 cities – any by the end of 2012 will have produced over 420. RecruitMilitary produces its Expos in cooperation with The American Legion.

The company also offers employers search licenses to its database of more than 445,000 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.

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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.