NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 11, 2006--The New York Times
Company (NYSE: NYT)
- The American Legion, U.S.O., Hire Vets First, Employer Support
of the Guard and Reserve, and the Coalition To Salute
America's Heroes Join Effort to Help Military Veterans - and
the Spouses of Active-Duty Military Personnel - Find Rewarding
Career Opportunities;
- "Salute" Expands Beyond New York to Chicago, Boston and Tampa
The New York Times Job Market announced dates and locations for
Salute Our Heroes(TM): The Veterans Job Fair & Career Expo, a series
of events designed to connect job candidates who have served in the
military with employers who want to hire them. The events attract
hundreds of employers and recruiters looking for talented and highly
motivated job candidates, who have served our country.
The enthusiastic response of both employers and veterans to the
inaugural "Salute Our Heroes" in New York City last year prompted The
New York Times to expand its successful program of exciting,
celebratory veteran recruitment events to four U.S. cities in 2006:
- Wednesday, May 17, in the Grand Ballroom at historic Navy Pier
in Chicago;
- Tuesday, June 13, in collaboration with BostonWorks, at Fenway
Park in Boston;
- Tuesday, July 11, at the USF Sun Dome in Tampa, Fla.; and
- Monday, November 6 at the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum
in New York City.
Each of these events will provide former servicemen and women -
and the spouses of active-duty military personnel - with myriad job
opportunities, career seminars, resume-writing workshops and more.
They also will offer employers the ability to demonstrate their
commitment to hiring veterans.
"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, attention to detail, and so much more," said Thomas L.
Bock, 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" is being presented in partnership with leading
veterans organizations and government agencies. These organizations -
including The American Legion, U.S.O., Hire Vets First, Employer
Support of the Guard and Reserve, and the Coalition To Salute
America's Heroes - will assist 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 success of the first 'Salute Our Heroes' last November was
extremely gratifying," said Jyll F. Holzman, senior vice president of
advertising, The New York Times. "We were able to salute the men and
women - and their families - whose courage and sacrifice inspire us
all, and to provide many of them with great jobs. Expanding into key
markets across America will give many more employers the opportunity
to honor those who defended our country and to add great, diverse
talent to their workforce."
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, national
print and online advertising, broadcast promotion, signage, on-site
marketing exposure, and other custom programs.
Each "Salute Our Heroes" event will be supported by an extensive
multi-media advertising campaign, direct e-mail to more than 200,000
candidates, extensive press efforts, and signage at hundreds of
military bases, U.S.O. facilities, American Legion posts and
newsstands. A special bannered advertising section, highlighting
veteran-friendly employers and career opportunities, will appear prior
to each event in the Sunday New York Times and online at NYTimes.com.
A special bannered advertising section also will appear prior to the
Boston 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.nytimes.com/saluteourheroes.
Interested veterans or spouses of active-duty military personnel
can find more information at www.nytimes.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.nytimes.com/employercentral/salute.
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 4.5
million weekday readers and 5.2 million Sunday readers as well as the
1.4 million average daily unique visitors to NYTimes.com, The New York
Times Job Market reaches a marketplace of high-quality professionals
actively seeking new job opportunities or considering career moves.
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 jobs and 600,000 resumes posted, BostonWorks is the
largest and most popular recruitment tool dedicated to the Boston
market. BostonWorks has more jobs and more resumes and reaches more
active and passive job seekers than any other recruitment site in the
market.
BostonWorks and BostonWorks.com leverage the power of The Boston
Globe and Boston.com to reach an audience of more than 2.7 million
each week. 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 JobSource, a weekly career publication
with distribution of over 100,000. BostonWorks also produces a number
of career fairs held in Greater Boston throughout the year.
About The New York Times Company
The New York Times Company (NYSE: NYT), a leading media company
with 2005 revenues of $3.4 billion, includes The New York Times, the
International Herald Tribune, The Boston Globe, 15 other daily
newspapers, nine network-affiliated television stations, two New York
City 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, Puerto Rico, 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. 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 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 and overseas. Overseas centers are located
in Germany, Italy, the United Arab Emirates, 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) 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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