BostonWorks and The New York Times Job Market to Host Salute Our Heroes(TM) - Veterans Job Fair & Career Expo; June 13 Event at Fenway Park Offers Employers the Chance to Honor - and Hire - America's Heroes.BOSTON -- BostonWorks and The New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Times Job Market will host Salute Our Heroes(TM) The Veterans Job Fair & Career Expo on June 13 at Fenway Park • • [ . Salute Our Heroes is a career event designed to connect candidates who have served in the military with employers who want to hire them. The event is expected to attract hundreds of employers and recruiters looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. talented and highly motivated job candidates, who have served our country. Salute Our Heroes will provide former servicemen and women - and the spouses of active-duty military personnel - with a myriad of job opportunities, career seminars, resume-writing workshops and more. They also will offer employers the ability to demonstrate their commitment to hiring veterans. "We are extremely excited about the opportunity to bring the successful 'Salute Our Heroes' event to Boston," said Jason Kissell, managing director of BostonWorks. "Our local veterans have served our country and now we have the opportunity to connect them and their families with the employers who are looking for the diversity of experience and skills they acquired during their service. It's our chance to serve and salute them." "Salute Our Heroes" is being presented in partnership with leading veterans organizations and government agencies. These organizations - including The American Legion American Legion, national association of male and female war veterans, founded (1919) in Paris. Membership is open to veterans of World Wars I and II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War. , U.S.O., Hire Vets First, Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve, and the Coalition To Salute America's Heroes - will assist BostonWorks and The New York Times in attracting qualified job candidates, lining up a wide variety of public and private sector employers, presenting educational and other programs for attendees, and providing on-site services such as accommodations for disabled veterans. The New York Times Job Market and BostonWorks offer a broad range of options for organizations to participate in "Salute Our Heroes." Various exhibitor and sponsorship packages for Salute Our Heroes include booth space, access to an exclusive resume database, print and online advertising, signage, on-site marketing exposure, and other custom programs. "Major companies throughout America recognize that veterans bring to the workplace many intangibles that go beyond the resume - communication and technological skills, teamwork, loyalty, a tireless work ethic work ethic n. A set of values based on the moral virtues of hard work and diligence. work ethic Noun a belief in the moral value of work , attention to detail, and so much more," said Thomas L. Bock Noun 1. bock - a very strong lager traditionally brewed in the fall and aged through the winter for consumption in the spring bock beer lager beer, lager - a general term for beer made with bottom fermenting yeast (usually by decoction mashing); originally , national commander, The American Legion. "That is why veterans deserve a special opportunity like this to connect with employers who value those qualities in their staff and managers. The Legion is proud to help make that connection as a partner in Salute Our Heroes." "Salute Our Heroes" event will be supported by an extensive multi-media advertising campaign, including candidate email outreach, press outreach, and signage at local military bases, U.S.O. facilities, American Legion posts and newsstands. A special bannered advertising section will appear prior to the event in the Sunday Boston Globe and online at BostonWorks.com. A comprehensive program guide will be distributed to candidates at each event, and extensive career resources will be available to veterans online at www.bostonworks.com/saluteourheroes Interested veterans or spouses of active-duty military personnel can find more information at www.bostonworks.com/saluteourheroes where they can complete the pre-registration required for attendance. Qualified job seekers who are unable to attend also can make their information available to participating employers through the online registration process. Employers can find more information about participating in "Salute Our Heroes" at www.bostonworks.com/heroes About BostonWorks Founded in 2001, BostonWorks (www.bostonworks.com) is a division of the Boston Globe, New England's largest daily newspaper. With more than 18,000 local jobs and 600,000 resumes posted, BostonWorks is the largest and most popular recruitment tool A recruitment tool is an advertising method that aids in creating interest in and getting people for a typically political organization. The term can not properly be applied to commercial advertising. dedicated to the Boston market Boston Market (known before 1995 as Boston Chicken), headquartered in Golden, Colorado, is a chain of American fast-food restaurants. Founded in December 1985 in Newton, Massachusetts, the chain grew rapidly in the early and mid-1990s, filed bankruptcy in the late 1990s, and . BostonWorks has more jobs and more resumes and reaches more active and passive job seekers than any other recruitment site in the market. In addition to the BostonWorks section in The Boston Sunday Globe and the online recruitment site BostonWorks.com, the division offers industry-specific magazines such as "On Call" for nurses and allied health professionals and a number of career fairs held in Greater Boston Greater Boston is the area of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts surrounding the city of Boston, Massachusetts. While Metro Boston tends to be the "Inner Core" surrounding the City of Boston, Greater Boston overlaps the North and South Shores, as well as the MetroWest region. throughout the year. About Job Market Job Market, the print and online recruitment services offering of The New York Times, provides employers and job seekers with comprehensive resources to streamline the recruitment process. Job Market appears in The New York Times every Sunday and is updated throughout the week at NYTimes.com, where job seekers can find job listings, career-related Times articles, exhaustive company research, a resume database and valuable career resources. Through the newspaper's national audience, which includes 5 million weekday print readers and 7 million Sunday readers (Source: 2004 Scarborough study), and the 1.6 million average daily unique U.S. visitors to NYTimes.com (Source: Nielsen//NetRatings, March 2006), The New York Times Job Market reaches a marketplace of high-quality professionals actively seeking new job opportunities or considering career moves. About The New York Times Company The New York Times Company (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : NYT NYT New York Times NYT National Youth Theatre (UK) NYT New York Transit (New York, USA) NYT New York Tribune ), a leading media company with 2005 revenues of $3.4 billion, includes The New York Times, the New York Times, The Morning daily newspaper, long the U.S. newspaper of record. From its establishment in 1851 it has aimed to avoid sensationalism and to appeal to cultured, intellectual readers. International Herald Tribune International Herald Tribune Daily newspaper published in Paris. It has long been the staple source of English-language news for American expatriates, tourists, and businesspeople in Europe. , The Boston Globe, 15 other daily newspapers, nine network-affiliated television stations, two New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. radio stations and 35 Web sites, including NYTimes.com, Boston.com and About.com. The Company's core purpose is to enhance society by creating, collecting and distributing high-quality news, information and entertainment. About The American Legion The American Legion (www.legion.org) was chartered by Congress in 1919 as a patriotic, mutual-help, wartime veterans' organization. A community-service organization, it now numbers nearly 3 million members - men and women - in nearly 15,000 American Legion Posts worldwide. These Posts are organized into 55 Departments - one each for the 50 states, the District of Columbia District of Columbia, federal district (2000 pop. 572,059, a 5.7% decrease in population since the 1990 census), 69 sq mi (179 sq km), on the east bank of the Potomac River, coextensive with the city of Washington, D.C. (the capital of the United States). , Puerto Rico Puerto Rico (pwār`tō rē`kō), island (2005 est. pop. 3,917,000), 3,508 sq mi (9,086 sq km), West Indies, c.1,000 mi (1,610 km) SE of Miami, Fla. , France, Mexico, and the Philippines. The American Legion's national headquarters is in Indianapolis, Indiana, with additional offices in Washington, DC. In addition to thousands of volunteers serving in leadership and program implementation capacities in local communities to the Legion's standing national commissions and committees, the national organization has a regular full-time staff of about 300 employees. About Hire Vets First The Hire Vets First Campaign (www.hirevetsfirst.gov) works to inform American employers of the value military veterans bring to the workforce. It is designed to meet a mandate from the United States Congress to the U.S. Department of Labor's Veterans Employment Training Service (www.dol.gov/vets) to reach out to all businesses that veterans have unique skills and abilities acquired while serving honorably in our armed services The Constitution authorizes Congress to raise, support, and regulate armed services for the national defense. The President of the United States is commander in chief of all the branches of the services and has ultimate control over most military matters. . It is proud to be associated with The New York Times in fulfilling its mission. About The Coalition to Salute America's Heroes The Coalition to Salute America's Heroes (www.saluteheroes.org) is a non-partisan, non-profit organization that offers several programs to assist disabled veterans who have served in Iraq and Afghanistan: Wounded Hero Emergency Financial Relief (provides urgent financial assistance to disabled veterans), Homes for Wounded Heroes (offers nearly cost-free, new or renovated disability-adapted homes to men and women), Wounded Hero Career Network (helps prepare and place motivated, qualified veterans in quality jobs through partnerships with other organizations), Family Support Network (offers special services to help relieve financial and emotional burdens facing heroes and their families), and the Road to Recovery Conferences (all-expense paid educational and service events for wounded servicemen and servicewomen and their families). About The U.S.O. The U.S.O. (United Service Organizations) is a private, nonprofit organization Nonprofit Organization An association that is given tax-free status. Donations to a non-profit organization are often tax deductible as well. Notes: Examples of non-profit organizations are charities, hospitals and schools. whose mission is to provide morale, welfare and recreation-type services to our men and women in uniform. The original intent of Congress - and enduring style of U.S.O. delivery - is to represent the American people by extending a touch of home to the military. The U.S.O. (www.uso.org) currently operates more than 120 centers worldwide, including seven mobile canteens located in the continental United States United States territory, including the adjacent territorial waters, located within North America between Canada and Mexico. Also called CONUS. and overseas. Overseas centers are located in Germany, Italy, the United Arab Emirates United Arab Emirates, federation of sheikhdoms (2005 est. pop. 2,563,000), c.30,000 sq mi (77,700 sq km), SE Arabia, on the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman. , Iceland, Japan, Qatar, Korea, Afghanistan, Guam, and Kuwait. Service members and their families visit U.S.O. centers more than 5 million times each year. About Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve (ESGR ESGR Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve ) is a Department of Defense agency established in 1972. ESGR (www.esgr.mil) secures and recognizes companies' and government agencies' commitment to support Guard and Reserve members in their workforce, and ESGR volunteers provide free education, consultation, and if necessary, mediation for employers of Guard and Reserve employees. |
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