Martin Luther King Day NAACP Career Fair to Feature Top L.A. Employers on Jan. 21.

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LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 10, 2002

For several thousand professionals from all communities and more than 45 leading local and national employers, opportunity comes in the form of the NAACP Diversity Career Fair which will take place from 11:00 a.m. until 5:30 p.m. on Martin Luther King Day, Monday, January 21, 2002, at the Radisson Hotel at LAX.

Taking advantage of the local talent will be recruiters from Ablestik, Act-1 Personnel Services, The Aerospace Corporation, Aon Corporation, AT&T Broadband, Automatic Data Processing (ADP), Children's Hospital Los Angeles, City National Bank, City of Los Angeles, Denny's, Eli Lilly & Company, Enterprise Rent-A-Car, Farmers Insurance, FedEx Ground, General Dynamics, GlaxoSmithKline, HNC Software, Hypnosis Motivation Institute, The J. Paul Getty Trust, Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, Los Angeles Fire Department, Los Angeles Police Department, Microsoft Corporation, Navy Recruiting District Los Angeles, Northrop Grumman, Paramount Pictures, Pella Architectual Products, Philip Morris U.S.A., Progressive Insurance, Pyxis Corporation, Raytheon, Solvay Pharmaceuticals, Toyota Motor Sales USA, TRW, Twentieth Century Fox, Universal Studios, Verizon Wireless and many more.

"People need jobs, and our career fair fills that need while simultaneously addressing the diversity of this 21st century city," according to Shomex President Lewis Shomer. A longtime leader in promoting equal employment opportunities, the NAACP is on the cutting edge of efforts to expand diversity throughout corporate America. Shomer says, "Companies have come to realize that diversity is no longer a concept without definition in today's society. It is a pragmatic reality and vital to the success of any business."

Compliments of Shomex, the official producer of NAACP career fairs, these events are the largest diversity career fairs in America and provide opportunities in engineering, law enforcement, communications, IT, programming, Internet, accounting, administration, retail, finance, management, marketing and sales. This event is presented by the NAACP Region I.

Partnering with the NAACP Career Fair to promote workforce diversity are Black Data Processing Associates (BDPA) - Los Angeles Chapter, Forty Plus, LULAC - California and the National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering, Inc. (NACME).

The event will kick off at 11:00 a.m. with a free seminar entitled "How to Make the Most of a Career Fair" presented by Elaine Harrell, Human Resources Administrator for The Aerospace Corporation. Admission is free to qualified candidates, who will have from noon until 5:30 p.m. to meet with prospective employers. Candidates who are unable to attend should visit BestDiversityEmployers.com to check out multiple job listings and post resumes.

To participate in this event as an employer, or for additional information, contact Shomex at 1-800-JOB-SHOW or visit www.naacpcareerfair.com.