Orion International Military Hiring Conferences

An Orion Hiring Conference is your chance to interview with hiring managers for positions that are a match with your background, skills and preferences. Orion holds approximately 75 hiring conferences each year in cities throughout the nation, and the conference will feature positions throughout that region of the country.

Orion focuses on corporations that value the unique skills and experiences of the military service member, and often the interviewers are Orion Alumni. An Orion Hiring Conference is not a Job Fair. Attendance is by invitation only, and you will have private interviews with Hiring Managers that are pre-arranged based on your background and preferences, allowing you to research the company and industry beforehand.

In addition, we offer a full day of interview preparation, briefings on the interviewing companies and positions (often times presented by the hiring managers themselves), and opportunities for you to network with other job seekers as well as the client companies. As with all of Orion’s services, there is NO FEE of any kind for our job seekers to attend an Orion Hiring Conference.

A Hiring Conference is the best opportunity to interview with several companies committed to the hiring process in just a few days.  Conferences are by invitation only so please visit our website or email us for more information.

Lucas Group Military Division - Military Hiring Conferences Coming up  - Dec/Jan

*              Engineering

*              Logistics

*              Front Line Supervisors

*              Operations

*              Mechanical and Electrical Technicians

*              Sales

*              Project Managers 

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SCHEDULED CAREER FAIRS & OPEN HOUSES

(Metro Washington/Baltimore – MidAtlantic Area) 
as of 11 September 2011 

A word of caution: check with both the sponsor and the hosting facility for listed Career Fairs and Open Houses before leaving home. Also, see Special Notes at the end of the listing for additional sponsors of Job Fairs across the nation and other relevant career and search web listings.  This listing is a “pay it forward” contribution of the firm, D&A Industries, Ltd.   When attending Career Fairs be sure to bring plenty of resumes, more than you plan to distribute. When attending an Open House be sure to bring a half-dozen copies of your resume.

Click here for list of scheduled career fairs & open houses.

Why Should I Attend a Career Fair?
by Jim Dittbrenner

The question is perennial: Why should I go to a Career or Job Fair today when the recruiters tell me to apply online?

There are any number of reasons to go and reasons not to go.

The number one reason not to go is attitude.  Without a positive attitude about gaining something positive at a career fair I should not waste anyone’s time, much less my own.  Additionally, if I am not prepared for the job fair I should not waste time.

Beyond that the reasons to attend are numerous from practicing my thirty second sound bites that I have focused to the organization I am speaking with to obtaining specific information from the recruiter that I can use in tightening my resume to send to the employer that evening.  If I can “tweak” my resume so it is anywhere near more focused to the specific role I want with the company I have benefited by going.

I can practice and sometimes get some feedback from others at the career/job fair that I talk with, asking for feedback on my sound bite that I in talking with them.  Example, are the examples that I include with my sound bite clear and understandable to the person I am talking with?

I want to validate my research and improve it as I research the companies I am interested in so I know the key words each company uses in its job announcements, and other information that I glean from other areas of the employer’s web site.

I can talk with other job seekers at the event and perhaps find an employer to talk with that I had not considered, based on my conversation with another.  If I have been to a career fair earlier I can check with the recruiters I spoke with at the earlier event to see if any of the same recruiters are at the employer’s booth.  If so, begin developing a relationship with that individual.

Also, have I been able to help someone else who was at the career/job fair?

Here are some of the more popular sites for specific career fairs information: 

Check out the web site www.idealist.org for quality information and periodic Job Fairs for the Nonprofit arena usually scheduled with area colleges and universities.   You can also post your resume with this site. 

For Job seekers both in and outside the Washington/Baltimore area that are looking at this listing, you may want to check out some of the following web sites for information and Career Fairs outside the Baltimore/Washington area:   

ClearedJobs.net  http://www.clearedjobs.net/ offers the cleared professional opportunities to meet those employers with cleared positions across the nation and overseas.  Offers Job and resume postings, advance notice of career fairs and topic appropriate free seminars at each career fair.  Like the other top career fair providers  perspective attendees are encouraged to pre-register.