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even slightly foreign or intimidating? Do you feel like your resume goes into some empty black hole in the Internet every time you send it out? What about punching your computer? Ever thought about doing that?

You're not alone, and we have a story about one of the many military job hunters who feel this way. When Frank Taylor, a former Staff Sergeant in the US Army, was laid off from his job that he had held since leaving the Army, he didn't know where to turn to even begin looking for another job. Already transitioned out, he couldn't go to the local ACAP office. Instead, he turned to the Internet, searching job boards and job sites, and growing progressively frustrated at the daily lack of response from resume submissions. The worst part was that in the rare event that he got a response, it came in the form of "thank you, but no" letters and "we'll keep your resume on file" notes.

"I had spent the last four months on major employment websites and nothing," said Frank. It got to the point where Frank, an honorable military veteran with specialized skills who should've had no problem finding a civilian job, was more than nervous, and the anxiety of not having a job and not hearing back from prospective employers wore on him deeply.

That's when Frank, the 10-yr. weapons defense specialist and instructor, came across MilitaryStars, a military veteran organization and military hiring event company that assists transitioning military and veterans in finding civilian jobs by hosting hiring events in select cities throughout the US. Frank logged on to www.militarystars.com, and registered as a military job seeker and candidate for a hiring event in Dallas, TX. What happened next truly changed Frank's life. Two days prior to the career expo, a company that was coming to the event came across Frank's Internet registration and contacted him.

This was not what Frank expected. In fact, he was shocked. He had spent - well, wasted is more the word - countless hours searching internet job boards and websites throughout his civilian job search and had obtained little more than a stiff neck; yet, in the space of one registration form from MilitaryStars, he received an email from Baker Hughes, an oilfield drilling and services company attending the event. To Frank's surprise, Baker Hughes asked him for an interview, and this was before he even walked into the expo. Frank, needless to say, came to the event, met with Baker Hughes, and was subsequently asked in for a second round of interviews for a measurement-while-drilling engineering position. Not two days later, Frank received a civilian job offer, and rather than searching the Internet for a job as he had done for months prior, he went to work at his new job, indeed his new civilian career.

And that's what MilitaryStars offers its candidates: a career. In as much as candidates come looking for a job, the companies that attend MilitaryStars expos attend because they need qualified, motivated military candidates.

"The event was successful. We had eight candidates from the event come in for interviews, and we expect to make about three to four hires from that group, which is a very good number," said Kristen Shank, a member of the Baker Hughes human resources team in LaFayette, LA. "We'd want to come back to these events for sure."

"I can't believe it," said Frank of his MilitaryStars experience. "This is a dream job and because of your expertise in placing ex-military, it's mine. In one week you placed me with an employer and I am about to embark on a job with a salary I could have never imagined."

The best part about this story, though, is that with MilitaryStars, this isn't atypical; rather, it's the norm. MilitaryStars, by its very nature, is a military veteran organization comprised and run by veterans that understands the employment needs of other military veterans. Hundreds of former military candidates come to regional career expos throughout the country, and hundreds leave with interviews scheduled and jobs offered. Point blank, MilitaryStars events get military veterans civilian jobs.

These civilian jobs aren't your run-of-the-mill employment, either. That's because MilitaryStars not only finds the right military veterans, they find the right military employers. Across the board, companies and government agencies like Lockheed Martin, Ferguson Enterprises, US Customs and Border Protection, KBR, Verizon Communications, Orion International, the US Secret Service and - of course - Baker Hughes attend MilitaryStars events because they know that they will have access to only pre-screened, pre-registered transitioning military and veterans looking for their civilian career.

In short, MilitaryStars is a defined quantity for candidates and companies alike, and both groups leave an event having gained more for attending. That's why veterans like Frank say, "I want to express my gratitude and appreciation to all of your crew; they were all very professional and efficient. I will always maintain that you are the best at what you do."