Career fair for veterans and military spouses comes to Glendale Oct. 2

The military-to-civilian recruiting firm RecruitMilitary will present a free hiring event for job seekers who have military backgrounds in the Phoenix area Oct. 2.

This event, the RecruitMilitary Career Fair, will be from 11 a.m. until 3 p.m. at University of Phoenix Stadium, home of the Arizona Cardinals, in Glendale. RecruitMilitary urges all job seekers who have military backgrounds to attend; veterans who already have civilian work experience, men and women who are transitioning from active duty to civilian life, members of the National Guard and reserves and military spouses.

The event will be the 82nd of 104 RecruitMilitary Career Fairs scheduled for 2008. An team of veteran-friendly organizations will conduct one-on-one interviews with the job seekers; organizations will include corporate employers, law-enforcement agencies and other government employers, educational institutions, franchisors, veterans service agencies and veterans associations.

Already in the line-up are Ameriprise Financial, the Army National Guard, Asarco, DeVry University, EC III, EchoStar Satellite, Freeport McMorAn Copper & Gold, Gila River Casinos, Healthmarkets, Hewitt Associates, the Internal Revenue Service, Jabil Electronics Manufacturing, Liberty Tax Service, Lockheed Martin Corporation, Maricopa Community Colleges, Maricopa Workforce, the Military Spouse Corporate Career Network, Northcentral University, Northrop Grumman Technical Services, Oldcastle Architectural Products Group, the Phoenix Police Department, Prudential Financial, The Entrepreneur's Source, TriWest Healthcare Alliance, Troops to Teachers, Universal Technical Institute, USAA, the Veterans Benefits Administration, Wackenhut Corporation, Walgreens, Western Truck School and Woodmen of the World.

RecruitMilitary will produce the career fair in cooperation with The American Legion; HireVetsFirst, a unit of the United States Department of Labor; and the Military Spouse Corporate Career Network.

More than 500 organizations attended 45 RecruitMilitary Career Fairs in 2007. At those events, an average of 30-plus organizations interviewed an average of more than 325 job seekers.

RecruitMilitary, based in Cincinnati, connects employers with job seekers who have military backgrounds. All of the company's account executives and retained search consultants are either veterans or active or former reservists. The president of RecruitMilitary is Drew Myers, formerly a captain in the United States Marine Corps. The company was founded in 1998. In August 2008, RecruitMilitary acquired Landmark Destiny Group, a military-to-civilian recruiting firm based in Norfolk, Va.

In addition to participation in career fairs, RecruitMilitary offers subscriptions to two databases of self-registered job seekers who have military backgrounds. The database at www.recruitmilitary.com currently numbers more than 230,000, and the database at www.destinygroup.com numbers more than 300,000.

RecruitMilitary also offers retained hiring services as well as advertising space in online and print media. The company obtained Search & Employ, a bimonthly print magazine, in the LDG acquisition. In October, RecruitMilitary will mail more than 32,000 copies of the magazine to over 230 military bases throughout the world for distribution to transitioning personnel. Job seekers who attend RecruitMilitary Career Fairs will also receive Search & Employ. Employers, educational institutions, and franchisors advertise in Search & Employ.