Mobile Veteran Job Fair

This event took place on May 10, 2012 at Arthur R. Outlaw Convention Center in Mobile, AL.

The Hire More Heroes Act is misguided. There is no veterans’ unemployment crisis.

“Americans may be shocked to learn that there is no veterans’ unemployment crisis. The unemployment rate in 2014 for post-9/11 veterans was 7.2 percent, the lowest level in seven years of tracking these veterans. ”

What Government Should Actually Do To Support Veterans' Employment

“The latest crisis at the Department of Veterans Affairs has called into question again the proper role of government in the care of our veterans. Whereas healthcare is clearly in shambles, veterans’ employment is another realm in which well-meaning government involvement has been inefficient at best and ineffective or counterproductive at worst. ”

Employment and Returning Veterans

“Peter Gudmundsson talked about the availability of jobs for returning service members.”

Beyond Altruism

“Among the fondest memories Peter Gudmundsson ’85 has of his three years as an active-duty U.S. Marine officer was the time in 1987 when, off the coast of Vietnam, he stood on the deck of a U.S. Navy ship looking up at the Soviet planes flying overhead. What was particularly memorable, he says, was not the plane flying overhead, but the reaction of the men in his platoon”

Money For Lunch

“Money for Lunch host Bert Martinez interviewed Peter Gudmundsson. Discussed veteran hiring.”

Helping veterans overcome job search challenges

“Mike Rollins is featured on America Now. Recently, America Now visited a RecruitMilitary job fair held at the Hurst Conference Center in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. ”

TN veterans face tough battle to find employment

“By Naomi Snyder Terry Pack was an aircraft mechanic serving in the Army in Iraq, spending two of the last six years in combat overseas. Now that he's done his service for the country, he can't even get a job doing oil changes at Sears. "It's tough,'' said the unemployed Clarksville veteran, who was honorably discharged in January. "I've been looking for any job." A congressional hea...”

Veterans and Jobs

“Matt Murphy, RecruitMilitary's Senior VP of Business Development and Sales is a guest on Washington Journal to talk about a recent report that shows the jobless rate for veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars is over eleven percent. He talks about connecting employers, educational institutions, and franchisors to veterans because of their character, skills and training, diversity, and securi...”

When attendees registered for the Mobile Veteran Job Fair, we asked them to let us know what fields they are interested in. The table below is a breakdown of those interests.

Interest Attendee Count Percentage
Government 162 54%
Logistics / Transportation / Warehouse 105 35%
Quality Assurance / Safety 101 34%
Project / Program Management 91 30%
Education / Training 85 28%
Manufacturing / Operations 85 28%
Administrative / Clerical 85 28%
Human Resources 81 27%
Customer Support / Client Care 80 27%
Maintenance / Installation / Repair 80 27%
Aviation / Aerospace 76 25%
Law Enforcement / Security 76 25%
Business / Strategic Management 69 23%
Sales / Business Development 53 17%
Construction / Trades 50 16%
Engineering 47 15%
Electronics 40 13%
Other 40 13%
Marketing / Product Management 39 13%
Medical / Health 37 12%
IT / Software Development 37 12%
Retail 32 10%
Accounting / Finance / Insurance 32 10%
Banking / Real Estate / Mortgage 27 9%
Biotech / R&D / Science 26 8%
Part-time 23 7%
Food Services / Hospitality 22 7%
Legal 19 6%
Creative / Design 19 6%
Editorial / Writing 13 4%