HireDS Announces Initial 20 Employers Recruiting Veterans During its 2011 Veterans' Career Expo on November 7th

    NEW YORK, NY, October 14, 2011 /24-7PressRelease/ -- HireDS, LLC - a certified disabled owned company promoting the inclusion of our Veterans and people with disabilities into mainstream employment - today announced the initial listing of twenty companies that will be recruiting Veterans and their families its next 2011 Veterans' Career Expo. The Expo, themed "Be A Hero, Hire A Hero" Global Veterans Career Expo, is being held on November 7th in New York City aboard the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum, as well as running virtually online simultaneously and for thirty days thereafter spanning military bases around the globe.

The 2011 Veterans Career Expo is being held in partnership with No Greater Sacrifice and the New York City Business Leadership Network. This Expo represents the ongoing commitment by HireDS to link qualified Veterans and their families - including Wounded Warriors - to the employers seeking to hire them. It comes on the heels of the highly successful career expo held on May 24th at the New Yorker Hotel. Between 3,000 and 4,000 Veterans are expected to participate.

The initial listing of 20 employers includes Verizon as a Hero Sponsor; Corporate Resource Services as a Meritorious Sponsor; Colgate World of Care and Tyco as Salute Sponsors; Seyfarth Shaw as a Veteran Sponsor; ADP, Bloomberg, CDW, CUNY, FedEx, GE, Jet-Hot, JMA Services, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Port Authority of NY & NJ, Verizon Wireless, Wyndham Worldwide as Soldier Exhibitors; and ASCO Valve, conEdison, PSEG, United Water as Enlist Exhibitors (virtual only).

Additional information is available online at http://www.beahero-hireahero.com/sponsors-exhibitors.html.

The unemployment rate among Veterans has remained disproportionately high, staggering around 13.4% - more than 4 percentage points higher than the national average - according to the latest figures released by the U.S. Department of Labor. There are over 1 million military Veterans currently unemployed.

For more information about the "Be a Hero, Hire a Hero" 2011 Veterans' Career Expo being held on November 7th in New York City, please contact Noritza Perito at (800) 238-5373 or [email protected].

About HireDS: HireDS is an employment consulting company assisting corporations
and organizations in the management of inclusion and diversity in the workplace. HireDS is a national leader in recruiting the best and brightest people for visionary companies. Since launching its "Be a Hero - Hire a Hero" initiative, HireDS has placed more than 500 service men and women who served our country so valiantly with not just jobs, but careers. HireDS is based in West Nyack, New York. For more information, please visit www.hireds.com.

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