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RecruitMilitary is a nationwide, full-service, military-to-civilian recruiting firm. We use advanced online and offline products to connect employers in all industries with men and women who are transitioning from active duty to civilian life, veterans with a wide variety of business experience, members of the National Guard and reserve forces, and military spouses.

We offer free services to all job seeking veterans (and their spouses) of all ranks/rates and branches of the armed forces.

Entries in military (10)

Thursday
May132010

Jobs in Energy for Military Veterans, Spouses, and the Transitioning Group

Schlumberger is one of the world’s leading oilfield services companies, providing a range of services from surface seismic studies to drilling, formation evaluation, well completion and stimulation, production optimization, reservoir studies, well construction, and project management.

And they love the military!

Daryl Hood, Schlumberger North American Technical Recruiting Manager, wants people with technical expertise or, in his words, those who like to “play with toys.”

“We definitely target the armed forces in our recruiting,” he said. “We’ve found that those veterans who come to us with technical experience get up to speed quickly and find a lot of success at Schlumberger.”

Hood said that veterans bring a wealth of skills, training, knowledge, and experience to Schlumberger’s workforce. He added that their technical training, maturity, and discipline are challenging to find anywhere else. He noted that it’s a two-way street; veterans will find Schlumberger an excellent place for fulfilling work.

See the jobs and read more of the article here.

Sunday
Mar212010

Fortune Magazine looks to RecruitMilitary this week

Fortune Magazine Quotes RecruitMilitary’s Slagel

A recent article in Fortune magazine, posted at

http://money.cnn.com/2010/03/04/news/companies/military_business_leaders.fortune/?postversion=2010030504

explains many of the benefits of hiring veterans—leading off with a discussion of Wal-Mart’s program for hiring junior military officers (JMO’s).  Fortune quotes RecruitMilitary’s Senior Vice President Larry Slagel, himself a former JMO (Marine Captain), saying that the competition for the best veterans is getting increasingly fierce: “It’s sort of blood in the water. Companies really want those folks.”

Also in the Fortune article: “RecruitMilitary reports that it has worked with more than half the companies in the Fortune 100 in the past three years.”  Going back further, we have 69 present and past clients in the Fortune 100 listing, 122 in the top 200 of the Fortune 500 listing, 163 in the top 300 of the listing, 191 in the top 400 of the listing, and 218 in the Fortune 500. Of the 218 clients, we have done business with about 200 since January 2007.

Sunday
Mar212010

Junior Military Officers - JMOs - What Do They Want To Do?

What Do the O-3’s Want to Do?

Former JMO’s have a wide variety of work interests, as shown in an article in the March/April 2010 issue of our Search & Employ print magazine. We searched our database of job seekers at www.recruitmilitary.com for the work interests of the largest group of JMO’s, the O-3’s—who  are or were captains in the Army, Air Force, or Marines; or lieutenants in the Navy or Coast Guard. When we conducted the search, there were 15,244 O-3’s in the database.

When job seekers register for the database, they can select up to 10 work interests from 67 industries and occupations. Our search showed that the top interest was Management/Supervision, with 4,958 O-3’s expressing an interest in that occupation. In second place was Consulting, with 2,637 indications of interest; followed by Aerospace/Defense with 2,589; Public Sector/Government with 2,430; and Manufacturing/Operations/Production with 2,297.

For the complete list, you can access an online copy—a PDF—of March/April 2010 Search & Employ by clicking here. The PDF is around 6 1/2 megs, so it may take a few seconds to download. The article, by RecruitMilitary’s Senior VP Mike Francomb, is on page 19 of the magazine—page 11 of the PDF.

Thursday
Mar182010

CNN INTERVIEW - NOW

We are being interviewed by CNN live at our Atlanta Opportunity Expo.  Great coverage about the critical veteran employment issue.  Robert Walker from our team is doing a terrific job during the interview.  Please tune in.  We'll update the blog with the video soon.

Wednesday
Mar102010

A day in the life of RecruitMilitary

One of our Senior Vice Presidents just sent me a synopsis of what happened on a very recent Thursday - here is the synopsis in its entirety:

A Day in the Life of RecruitMilitary

Today, we served an estimated 3,300+ transitioning and veteran military. Let’s count ‘em up:

Today, we produced three Opportunity Expos: at the American Legion’s summit meeting in Washington, D.C.; at LP Field, home of the Tennessee Titans, in Nashville; and at MinuteMaid Park, home of the Houston Astros. We hosted a total of 1,000+ veterans at the three events.  A total of 134 veteran-friendly organizations exhibited, including 10 federal agencies that are required to comply with President Obama’s Executive Order on veteran hiring initiatives within the Executive Branch.
 
Incidentally, our Expos always get great media coverage. Here is a sample of just our TV coverage in Nashville: WTVF-TV CBS 5 Morning Show Pre-Event Coverage: http://www.newschannel5.com/Global/story.asp?S=12042052. WSMV-TV NBC 4: http://www.wsmv.com/news/22670631/detail.html
http://www.wsmv.com/video/22664049/index.html


Today, 341 veterans registered as job seekers at our database at www.recruimilitary.com, joining 400,000+ who had already done so.  
 
Today, hundreds of transitioning military picked up copies of our print magazine, Search & Employ at military bases throughout the world. It is hard to pin down exactly how many veterans read the magazine on any given day; but, based on our circulation, roughly 500 may well have picked it up today.

Today, hundreds of veterans visited our website. We had about 60,000 unique visitors this month —an average of 2,100+ per day. We can’t be sure how many of today's visitors were veterans who did not attend attend any of the three Expos and who did not register today. But, based on our experience, we would estimate the number at 1,500.

Today was a great day.