LOVELAND, Ohio - Aug. 4, 2016 -The military-to-civilian recruitment firm RecruitMilitary will produce a Veteran Career Fair at McWane Science Center on Thursday, August 25, 2016. The event is sponsored by Education Corporation of America and will run from 11 a.m. until 3 p.m. Virginia College Career Services Department will host a pre-event seminar for attendees at 10 a.m. titled "Career Readiness and the Transitioning Military Servicemember."

"RecruitMilitary job fairs maintain a track record of helping veterans find meaningful employment," said President and CEO Peter Gudmundsson. "Just last year, 56.3% of veteran job seekers expected to secure an interview as a result of their participation in a RecruitMilitary job fair and employers were expected to extend as many as 38,700 interviews and more than 12,000 job offers."

In August of 2015, the RecruitMilitary Birmingham event connected more than 325 veteran job seekers with 35 exhibitors, including Johnson Controls, Inc, Federal Bureau of Prisons and Norfolk Southern Corporation. Participating companies expected to conduct up to 345 interviews and make up to 89 job offers as a result of that career fair.

RecruitMilitary has produced veteran job fairs since 2006, and has held 7 events in Birmingham, drawing 1,644 attendees and 171 exhibitors. The company has produced more than 814 events in 65 cities across the country.

Among those companies attending the upcoming Birmingham event are: Education Corporation Of America, Apple, Best Buy Co., Inc., FedEx Ground, Fresenius Medical Care North America, Hearst Television, The Home Depot - Supply Chain, TravelCenters of America / Petro Stopping Centers, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Walgreens, American Cast Iron Pipe Company, Automation Personnel Services, Inc., Colonial Life, Combined Insurance, EBSCO Industries, Inc., Farmers Insurance, Faurecia, Federal Aviation Administration, First Command Financial Planning, Heavy Construction Academy, Heavy Equipment College of Georgia, New Horizons Computer Learning Centers, Inc., Norfolk Southern Corporation, PowerSouth Energy Cooperative, Roto-Rooter Development Company, Spire, Strategic Systems Programs, The Art Institutes, The Entrepreneur's Source and The Univeristy of Alabama at Birmingham.

RecruitMilitary also offers subscriptions (search licenses) to its database of 860,000+ registered candidates at [http://www.recruitmilitary.com](http://www.recruitmilitary.com), job postings, targeted email campaigns, retained hiring services, and advertising space in online and print media. The company publishes Search & Employ®, a bimonthly print and digital magazine; and distributes 50,000+ print copies of each issue. The company was founded in 1998, and is located in Loveland, Ohio (Greater Cincinnati).

RecruitMilitary's website received User's Choice Awards from Weddle's (http://www.weddles.com) in 2013 and 2014. Weddle's is a publisher of guides and directories that focus on the employment-related area of the Internet. The awards are a result of a year-long annual survey conducted by Weddle's to recognize "the elite of the online employment industry." The judges are recruiters and job seekers who have used the sites.

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