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 30 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 Baltimore 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 (MSCCN). The event will be the 22nd of 45 RecruitMilitary Career Fairs scheduled for 2007. During 14 such events produced from January through May, these fairs have averaged 30-plus organizations interviewing more than 450 job seekers.

The line-up for Baltimore already includes Amtrak, Baltimore County 911, Baltimore Gas and Electric Company, Con-way Freight, Denny’s, the Federal Aviation Administration, Geico, L-3 GSI, Little Caesars Corporation, Lockheed Martin Corporation, the Maryland Department of Management and Budget, the Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services, MVM, Inc., Maryland Transit Authority, the Military Spouse Corporate Career Network, Oldcastle Architectural Products Group, Prince George’s County Police Department, Southwest Airlines, the Transportation Security Administration, Wackenhut Corporation and Walgreens.

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 160,000, at its Web site, www.recruitmilitary.com; advertising in online and print media; and contingency and retained hiring services. The company mails more than 53,000 copies of a quarterly, print newsletter called Incoming! to over 230 military bases throughout the world for distribution to transitioning personnel; employers advertise their job openings in Incoming! The president of RecruitMilitary is Drew Myers, formerly a captain in the United States Marine Corps. The company was founded in 1998.

RecruitMilitary produced 13 career fairs in 2006. More than 225 organizations and over 8,000 job seekers attended those events. The career fairs generated television coverage by CNBC, ABC, NBC and CNN; radio coverage by ESPN and numerous regional stations; and articles in several newspapers.