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RecruitMilitary Career Fair for Military Veterans and Military Spouses...

The military-to-civilian recruiting firm RecruitMilitary will present a free hiring event for job seekers who have military backgrounds in Denver on Thursday, August 9. This event, the RecruitMilitary Career Fair, will take place from 11 a.m. until 3 p.m. at the Wings Over the Rockies Air and Space Museum, former home of Lowry Air Force Base. The career fair will be open to 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. More than 20 veteran-friendly organizations will conduct one-on-one interviews with the job seekers -- organizations that will include corporate employers, law-enforcement agencies and other government employers, educational institutions, veterans service agencies and veterans associations.

RecruitMilitary will produce the event in cooperation with The American Legion; HireVetsFirst, a unit of the United States Department of Labor; and the Military Spouse Corporate Career Network (MSCCN). The event will be the 25th of 45 RecruitMilitary Career Fairs scheduled for 2007. During 19 such events produced from January through June, an average of 30-plus organizations interviewed an average of over 425 job seekers.

The line-up for Denver already includes The Wackenhut Corporation, Lockheed Martin Corporation, Oldcastle Architectural, Inc., United States Border Patrol, Modern Woodmen of America, Schneider National, First Command Financial Planning, Enterprise Rent-A-Car Company, Phelps Dodge Corporation, Colorado Technical University - Denver, Wyoming Department of Corrections, Eaton Corporation, Wells Fargo Bank, Small Business Administration, Anheuser-Busch Inc, Colorado Army National Guard, Barrick Goldstrike, Bayard Advertising, Sierra Nevada Corporation and Westwood College.

The American Legion is an association of veterans who served during times of war. The Legion has 2.7 million members in nearly 15,000 posts throughout the world. The National Commander of The American Legion is Paul A. Morin, an Army veteran, of Chicopee, Massachusetts. Congress chartered The American Legion in 1919. HireVetsFirst was created by Congress in 2002 to develop awareness among employers of the outstanding attributes of men and women who are transitioning from active duty to civilian life. The Military Spouse Corporate Career Network was founded in 2004 to provide career opportunities and job portability for military spouses. The organization is made up of military spouses, caregivers to war wounded, and retired military personnel. The President and founder is Deb Kloeppel, a military spouse.

RecruitMilitary, based in Cincinnati, connects employers with job seekers who have military backgrounds. All of the company's owners, officers, account executives, and recruiters are either veterans or active or former reservists. In addition to participation in career fairs, RecruitMilitary offers subscriptions to its database of self-registered job seekers who have military backgrounds, currently numbering more than 163,000, at its Web site,

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