Ex-Mil Recruitment Ltd launches hiring campaign

The recruitment consultancy, Ex-Mil Recruitment Ltd launches a campaign to highlight to employers the value of hiring ex military personnel.

The military, very recently, have been in the public eye for a number of reasons, due to conditions, the lack of training and equipment they face in the ongoing struggle in Iraq. However, one of the least known problems they face, is the difficulty trying to forge a new career after they leave a military environment.

Ex-Service personnel are renowned around the Globe for having the best training, commitment and ability. They have proven themselves time and time again, often in very harsh and demanding environments where they have kept a high level of professionalism as well as an excellent sense of humour.

Servicemen leaving the military have a multitude of skills, ranging from IT, Telecoms, Security, Project Management, Transport, Logistics, Engineering, and Avionics, to name but a few. Many personnel have very quickly moved into roles that embrace the above, others, with strong backgrounds of personal initiative and flexibility have moved into non-related roles such as, Sales, Facilities Management, Training and Development and General Management.

At the moment, approximately 30,000 service personnel leave the military every year, many find it very difficult to secure a new career, or even somewhere to live.

At present, a significant percentage of the homeless, living on the streets of London, come from ex military backgrounds. Those with less than 3 years service, receive little or no assistance in job hunting and more importantly, in finding somewhere to live. Ex-military personnel, who have served longer terms, can find the support and advice most often fragmented and not very well co-ordinated.

Another challenge faced by ex military personnel is the propensity of H M Forces to point individuals towards very few potential career paths. Employers outside of these ëover-used pathsí often donít appreciate the value that ex military personnel can offer with respect to, commitment, loyalty, discipline and the innate adaptability and ìcan doî attitude to work.

Unlike the majority of recruitment websites, both traditional and on the internet, Ex-Mil Recruitment Ltd is totally focused on matching ex military personnel with suitable companies. The founding Director of Ex-Mil served for 10 years in the British Army and understands, only too well, the situation faced by ex military personnel when they leave. He has an extensive recruitment based background outside of the Army and is in a very good position to understand both sides of the issue.

The ethos of Ex-Mil Recruitment is simple, in the forces you are trained to be the best and you are expected to give 100% at all times, so when the ëlads and lassesí leave the military, shouldnít they expect the same commitment in return? Furthermore, from April 2006 Ex-Mil Recruitment are committed to donating 10% of our profit to established military charities.