Come for the Cake, Stay for the Jobs

Look who’s turning 20… it’s the Service Academy Career Conference (SACC), which was first held from April 28-30, 1994, at the Ritz Carlton Hotel, in Arlington, VA—a West Coast SACC was held later that year in San Diego, CA. Reports show that approximately 2,000 service academy graduates attended these conferences, and they were recruited by a total of 75 companies. Two decades later, SACC has expanded to four locations, and now 75 or so recruiters attend each conference. The next SACC will be in Washington, DC, on May 29 and 30, and it will mark the conference’s anniversary. If you are a grad planning to transition from military service to a civilian career, then you won’t want to miss the party in our Nation’s capital. Shell Oil, General Electric, Procter & Gamble, and other great companies will be there, and so should you.

Josh Ewing ’09, who attended the March 2014 SACC held in Savannah, GA, walked away very impressed with the conference. “I could not believe how helpful it was to attend,” he says. “I have messaged my fellow classmates to inform them of the SACC and stressed to them how necessary it is to attend.”

Other grads shared similar sentiments. “SACC is a great opportunity for wide exposure without going through an employment agency,” said one. “I have attended two career conferences in the past, and the SACC is by far the most promising,” said another.

In a survey of West Point graduates who attended the Savannah SACC, 100 percent of them answered “yes” to the question: “Would you recommend SACC to a fellow Academy graduate?”

So if you are, or soon will be, in the job market, be sure to attend the next SACC coming in May.  You don’t have to bring anything to mark the anniversary of SACC except your resume, and you might be the one coming way with a gift—you next career!

SACC is organized and hosted by the West Point Association of Graduates along with the alumni associations of the other service academies. Click here for more information about SACC, including registration details.