Search & Employ® Magazine

January / February 2011

Welcome to job seekers 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. Our company’s continuing mission: to help men and women who have military backgrounds connect with employers, franchisors, and educational institutions.

This issue’s cover articles focus on opportunities in the defense industry. Careers in the defense sector enable veterans to perform important work and to keep serving their country. In those articles, you will read about a variety of companies who are actively seeking the skill sets and talents that veterans bring to the table.

Our feature articles describe opportunities in finance and insurance. Insurance industry jobs focus on providing clients with protection against financial losses and hardships. Careers in finance involve advising and assisting individual and institutional investors with purchasing and selling stocks, bonds, commodities, and various related products.

There are plenty of opportunities for veterans in all of these industries – even veterans who did not work in those fields while in the military. Such veterans can use educational benefits available under the Post-9/11GI Bill to acquire the skills they need.

As you will note throughout our articles, companies are eager to hire people who can lead and work in teams, people who are disciplined and can get the job done—people like you. In these challenging times, companies are especially eager to hire employees who will take to the job immediately, work with great interest and enthusiasm—and learn, learn, learn!

Check out our new job board! Launched on Veterans Day, our new job board provides state-of-the-art, best-in-class technology. It is full of exciting new features, which will make it easier for potential employers to find your profile—and easier for you to find the job you are looking for. Candidates overwhelmingly report that the new board is much faster and easier to navigate than the previous board. More than 300 candidates are registering daily.

Register with us. To further your job search and to make your own data searchable by employers, franchisors, and educational institutions, we encourage you to register as a job seeker and post your resume at www.recruitmilitary.com. There, you will find thousands of job postings, and you will join a vast database searched by recruiters nationwide. Don’t have a resume? Hire one of our experts to write one for you.

As a registered, active candidate, you will also receive The VetTen, a monthly electronic newsletter loaded with employment and other opportunities and containing a link to an online copy of the current issue of Search & Employ®.

Go to our Expos. We also encourage you to attend the RecruitMilitary Opportunity Expos in your area. We have 60 events scheduled for 2011—see our schedule and Robert Walker’s article on page 24 of this issue. At those events, recruiters representing employers, franchisors, and educational institutions will be on hand to discuss a multitude of options.

And finally: Talk to everyone who has opportunities for veterans. Do not rule out any business or industry until you have discussed the opportunities with a recruiter.

Thank you for serving in the armed forces of the United States.


Drew Myers
Founder and President, RecruitMilitary
drew@recruitmilitary.com

Employers, franchisors, and representatives of educational institutions: Please see the special section on pages 26 and 27!