As a result, organizations turn to The Employment Company for guidance. Our suite of services spans the spectrum of talent management competencies and informs human resource decisions. Together we can create enduring success for your organization.

The Employment Company provides a broad spectrum of resources and services including: helping you to create a competency-based interviewing framework for your position, providing you with viable candidates for positions you are seeking to fill, assessing said candidates, aiding in the negotiation permanent and temporary employment contracts, and numerous other recruiting, placement and human resource related services. Our search professionals offer an unparalleled depth of experience, reach and industry knowledge.

Effective executive recruitment requires hands-on experience in the markets we serve. The Employment Company's consultants possess extensive backgrounds and specific expertise in the broadest range of industries, sectors and functional areas.

The Employment Company has a strong reputation for conducting leadership searches for high profile, powerful trade associations and professional societies. Among the industry sectors we serve are heavy manufacturing, technology, life sciences and health, aerospace and defense, energy, automotive, petroleum and chemicals, entertainment and hospitality, financial services, network marketing and consumer goods. We also serve physician groups, human resources, construction, public safety, engineering, science and financial institutions. Our key to success is our proven track record for placing outstanding candidates, providing a focused, yet flexible search process for search committees, offering a unique candidate assessment tool to benchmark best in class leaders, and our unparalleled access to top political, industry, and association candidates.

Over the past 40 years, charitable giving in the U.S. has increased from $20 billion to $250 billion annually. Today, The Employment Company is proud to support the vibrant and robust nonprofit sector. Prominent and respected philanthropic organizations actively work in the sector, and the landscape continues to evolve with the growth of social entrepreneurship and venture philanthropy. The ongoing effort to meet the humanitarian, social, civic and cultural needs of our global world has caused organizations to grow, renew and re-invent themselves. To meet the complex challenges inherent in nonprofit leadership, our consultants continuously strive to understand the functions and dynamics surrounding the most critical leadership roles in nonprofit organizations. Our consultants have been an active partners working with Boards, organizations and emerging social entrepreneurs to identify, recruit and develop talent in this sector.

Once retained, The Employment Company serves as a trusted advisor to these mission-driven organizations across education, environment, humanitarian relief, culture and the arts, and healthcare needs. With experience recruiting and developing nonprofit leaders, we honor the efforts of our clients, and are committed to helping them recruit the talent needed to move their mission ahead. We provide consultative, premier executive recruiting, starting with understanding our client's mission and the culture that drives the organization. Working closely with our clients, we help frame the understanding of the position, and rely on our relationships, proprietary database and assessment tools to go to market. We understand no two organizations are exactly alike and our process is collegial, with organized, defined timelines and metrics to keep our clients informed and successful. Our successful candidates represent the best available talent helping to shape today's nonprofit sector.

Our pledge to provide excellent service - combined with our shared sense of commitment to nonprofits' missions - create the partnerships that remain successful and rewarding for our clients and our candidates.

While the transition of a new government administration always brings new heightened levels of interest in government work from mid-level specialists and leaders from industry, the reality is, the Government Sector as a whole is now facing its most serious talent shortage crisis.

The Office of Personnel Management recently surveyed the government's most senior executives and found that nearly 42% were planning to leave the Federal Service in the next three years, and more than 61% in the next five years. While agency and department leaders understand that replenishing the SES (Senior Executive Service) ranks with high-caliber executives is vital to the continued success of their organizations, the solution to this challenge is not an easy task. A shrinking talent pool across all sectors means that government agencies will face fierce competition for talented executives from the private and nonprofit sectors.

We provide single and surge-hiring search efforts for all employment levels. Our ability to tailor our search process to conform to the exact needs of our clients, coupled with our access to government and private sector leaders makes us uniquely qualified to assist Federal, State and Local Governments in their recruitment needs.

The Employment Company provides human resource consulting services for leadership coaching and development, competency profiling, recruitment process consulting, as well as recruitment technology optimization services.

We would welcome the opportunity to discuss your immediate and future needs.

Leadership, it's been said, is the single most important contributing factor to an organization's success. In today's business environment, maintaining strong governance is no longer an option and identifying, recruiting and developing leaders is an ongoing challenge.

Expanding the talent pool for CEOs and directors is imperative. Recruiting qualified individuals and training them to serve in this new environment requires insight, creativity and finesse. The Employment Company meets this challenge with our CEO & Board Services practice. Our consultants work with CEOs and in the board room, and our expertise is organizational leadership and governance. This work spans all ranges of organizational scale and purpose.

Among the customized services that we provide is a Corporate Governance Audit, for example, which involves the evaluation of a client's particular board policies and practices. The board's size, composition, functional balance, and director compensation plan is evaluated and compared with traits of industry peers, particularly in relation to current "best practices.� This evaluation is followed by a candid assessment of those areas that require attention.

It is our ability to help plan senior leadership models, combined with tools that minimize many of the "unknown� factors in selecting individuals and our depth of resources, that results in the majority of our clients retaining us many times over for leadership engagements.

Best practices dictate the importance of including qualified individuals of different backgrounds among the candidates proposed for client engagements, and diverse candidates play an important role in the vast majority of our searches.

Should you be hiring the chief executive, filling public, private or non-profit board vacancies or building a board for a public company spin-off or emerging growth company about to go public, The Employment Company will deliver the best talent available.

Organizations today and their leadership teams are challenged to communicate more frequently and transparently to a wider range of internal and external stakeholders. This requires corporate affairs executives to be especially skilled at not only developing communications and advocacy strategies that are aligned with their business objectives but also capable of anticipating challenges, protecting and enhancing reputation, and leveraging existing and new channels for managing dialog with its audiences.

Today's top corporate affairs professionals are increasingly viewed by the corporate officers and boards as trusted advisors who are both functional experts and valued business partners who have a global orientation.

The functional specialties of corporate affairs include:

• Corporate Communications
• Corporate Social Responsibility
• Crisis and Issues Management
• Executive Communications
• Government Affairs
• Internal Communications

• Investor Relations
• Marketing Communications
• Media Relations
• Public Affairs
• Public Relations
• Regulatory Affairs

The Employment Company's recruitment consultants network a cross-section of industries in order to bring not only functional expertise but industry experience to every assignment. The result is that we are able to deliver the quality of candidates that our clients require.

Managing a consumer-driven business in today's environment is not for the timid. Today's global customer base requires a multi-faceted approach to sales and marketing. The Internet adds numerous opportunities - and challenges as a company builds its relationships with its constituencies. And, competition for the attention and spending power of customers is unrelenting, requiring organizations to be well versed in the areas of supply chain, product development and increasingly, sustainability. Consumer company executives must be experienced leaders, highly focused but equally flexible and creative. No one understands this better than the consultants of The Employment Company.

The Employment Company seeks out talented employees, as well as professionals who have experience in the consumer, retail, travel, entertainment, and marketing services industries. We understand the challenges you face and what leadership skills are needed to drive success.

• Advertising & Marketing Services
• Consumer Products
• Media & Entertainment
• Retail & Apparel
• Travel/Hospitality/Leisure

The dental industry, encompassing office manager, assistants, hygienists, associate dentists and owner/operator dentists is dynamic and constantly introducing new technology and procedures. And such an industry requires constant training, which in turn leads to a competitive advantage to those practices that employee the best trained staff and employees. The Employment Company has an extensive proprietary database of highly trained and skilled dental staff and professionals that it leverages to provide its clients with the most skilled talent available in today's marketplace.

In today's dynamic global economy, the best companies recognize that their employees and management must reflect the world's diverse population. To fulfill our dedicated commitment to diversity, and to serve our clients' needs, we strive in every engagement to recruit the most outstanding candidates, regardless of color, race or gender.

Our diversity efforts reflect our commitment to equal employment opportunity and ensure that we are able to maintain an active network of contacts in key communities. Our reach is further enhanced by the location of diversity expertise specialists in critical industries.

At The Employment Company, we work hard to bring forward candidates of exceptional qualifications and abilities of all backgrounds. We strongly believe that an organization achieves excellence when its workplace embraces all individuals.

The recruitment of a president or other senior leader is a seminal moment for an institution of higher education, and it may be the most important function of the board of trustees. We recruit top-level educational executives, including presidents, chancellors, provosts, deans and commissioners. We also serve educational publishing, educational services, corporate training and other key areas of the education community.

Leading today's educational institutions requires more than experience in this field. A university president or chancellor must possess exemplary management and strategic planning skills, unquestioned integrity, financial acumen, and a commitment to faculty and students. He or she must be an effective advocate for the goals of the academy. An appreciation of scholarship and ideas in forming a vision of teaching and learning are imperative.

The Employment Company's talent management approach also benefits higher education institutions by offering assistance with candidate assessment, compensation, succession planning, and leadership development and training issues. Our higher education search professionals have the knowledge and tools to help boards overcome the challenges of hiring leadership.

The roles of financial professionals grow more complex with each passing year. At the senior level, they must guarantee the integrity of an organization's financial condition and reported results, enhance shareholder value, oversee mergers & acquisitions, establish an optimal risk management program, and keep a sharp eye on costs. And this must be accomplished under heightened scrutiny from government, board directors, shareholders and other stakeholders.

Knowing, tracking and recruiting financial professionals who can meet and exceed these demands is the domain of The Employment Company which provides services for organizations ranging from multi-national corporations, to mid-market enterprises, to small businesses, to early-stage and pre-IPO start-ups across an array of industries.

Recruitment and placement is the most prominent element of a richly comprehensive activity that we conduct in response to our client's human resource needs in all areas of finance and accounting. We also provide a rich blend of effective, results-oriented consultation and experience-tested advice concerning organizational structures, compensation norms and trends, assessment, coaching, and market knowledge derived from our vast wealth of contacts and experience in the human capital marketplace.

Listed below are a few of the industries and sectors that The Employment Company provides financial candidates for:

Asset & Wealth Management The Asset Management sector focus is on the institutional, retail and alternative asset classes for the asset management industry, and includes the hedge fund business. Consultants work on senior, critical roles that impact the success of an enterprise. These include investment, product, client relationship, distribution and marketing positions as well as functionally aligned roles working in conjunction with the business. Wealth Management covers traditional private banks, private client arms of investment banks, and providers of services to the wealth management sector. Engagements typically include CEOs, CIOs, COOs, CROs, various functional roles and leaders of businesses by geography or professional segment.

Capital Markets The Capital Markets sector focuses on the distribution, structuring and trading arms of global and regional commercial and investment banks and securities/brokerage firms. Sector professionals provide market analysis, product knowledge, competitive intelligence and human capital solutions to sales, marketing, structuring, origination, trading and research groups across all asset classes, including equities, corporate bonds, government and agency bonds, asset-backed instruments, mortgage-backed securities, foreign exchange, commodity derivatives, derivatives, structured finance and futures products.

Consumer Banking & Transactional Services The Consumer Banking sector encompasses all retail and commercial banking services including branch banking, corporate and mortgage lending, asset and wealth management, merchant banking, trust, regional sales, product management, credit and other functional roles to support business activities. The Transaction Services sector includes any type of transaction that involves the movement of money such as credit/debit cards, biometrics, trading platforms, banking, merchant processing and technology financial services, in addition to a segment that specifically focuses upon the technology platforms that enable transactions.

Insurance The Insurance sector serves the full spectrum of insurance industry organizations including property/casualty companies; life, health and annuity companies; reinsurance entities; insurance brokers and intermediaries and insurance services providers. Insurance sector search experience is both broad and deep, encompassing all C-suite, general management, functional management and specialized executive positions in insurance industry entities. In addition to executive recruiting, consultants serve clients and work on assignments in other service areas including market and competitive analysis, and compensation consulting.

Investment Banking & Private Equity The Investment Banking/Private Equity sector covers banking and investment banking/brokerage firms with respect to investment banking activities, including; corporate finance, M&A, equity and debt origination, restructuring advisory, structured/project finance, high yield origination, and leveraged/syndicated finance. This sector also covers the staffing and human capital needs of private equity/alternative investment firms for positions in the following areas: LBO investing, infrastructure investing, private equity fund of funds, and private equity and alternative investments fundraising.

Real Estate The Real Estate sector represents a global and diverse spectrum of firms developing, investing in, and managing real estate assets. Clients include pension funds, private equity firms, financial institutions, private and public real estate operating companies, as well as public and private owners and developers of real estate.

Technology, Operations & Corporate Officers The Technology, Operations and Corporate Officers sector provides leadership to clients in key functional areas including technology, operations (back office, client services and processing), regulatory, legal & compliance, human resources, finance and risk as well as other critical corporate roles. Consultants work with a variety of companies ranging from large banks to start-up organizations in both major financial centers and smaller regional markets around the world.

In Healthcare Services, our executive recruiting professionals - many of whom have held positions in healthcare organizations and are well-versed in the challenges you face today - have served many of the world's most prestigious healthcare institutions. This includes one-half of the top academic medical centers, one-third of the top 100 integrated delivery systems, one-half of the top health insurance companies and more than 500 medium-to-large-sized hospitals.

Among the diverse range of healthcare organizations for which we have secured and developed top executives are hospital systems, multi-specialty physician practices, pharmacy benefit management companies, long-term care/assisted-living companies, home health companies, healthcare associations, and other service delivery companies.

The Employment Company provides healthcare services in the areas of:

• Academic Health Sciences
• Health Insurance
• Hospital/Health Systems

In any organization, there is no more essential task than recruiting, retaining, developing and motivating employees because without people committed to executing the business strategy, success cannot occur.

Today's human resources executives are expected to align an organization's business goals with the needs of its people and create innovative HR programs that attract and retain the most talented employees in the short and long term. This requires business acumen, insight into human behavior, leadership and nimbleness.

They know the trends and the challenges.

Whether you are a start-up company, a multi-national or something in between, The Employment Company's experts can assist you. Our searches span all industries in such HR specialties as:

• senior HR generalists
• compensation and benefits/total rewards and HR information systems
• corporate learning
• diversity
• leadership development/change management
• organizational/management development
• organizational effectiveness
• talent management and acquisition/recruitment
• employee and labor relations

The industrial marketplace is undergoing a remarkable and historic transformation spurred by exciting new advancements in technology, the powerful growth of emerging markets, accelerating innovation and the growing complexity of supply chains serving customers in every region of the world.

Never has the need for innovative, global and experienced executive leadership been in more demand but also in such short supply. In virtually every region of the world organizations are now challenged with the issues of talent acquisition, retention, succession and development like never before.

In response to these realities, our work encompasses a wide variety of functions (such as operations, manufacturing, supply chain, marketing and sales) spanning all employment levels.

The Employment Company focuses on recruiting highly skilled enterprise information technology employees and managers as well as senior leaders at organizations that provide products and services to the enterprise IT marketplace.

The Employment Company can help you with recruitment of the IT employees and staff that your company requires to compete in this highly competitive industry. The Employment Company specializes the diverse areas detailed below:

• IT Strategy & Alignment
• IT Governance
• Risk Management
• Systems Architecture
• Project Management
• ERP Implementation
• Systems Development
• Business Intelligence
• Strategic Sourcing
• Acquisition Integration

Organizations of all sizes and in all sectors today must contend with increasing amounts of regulation, legislation, and litigation. As a result, qualified, experienced attorneys who understand the economic impact of legal and regulatory issues and how to manage the risks are essential members of a management team.

The Legal Center of Expertise team conducts searches in four major areas:

• general counsel and other senior counsel roles.
• law firms seeking partners and counsel with various practice specialties.
• legal infrastructure/management roles, including law firm executive directors, chief financial officers and chief marketing officers; corporate chiefs of staff, and law school deans and administrators.
• compliance function positions ranging from securities compliance to corporate governance and Sarbanes-Oxley.

With the ability to tap into The Employment Company's proprietary network, targeted market intelligence and research, expansive legal profession contacts, and personal experience, our search consultants provide each client with a slate of highly qualified candidates, including those with varied professional experience and diverse backgrounds.

In no other economic sector are science, technology and society converging to create new business models and market demands than in the area of life sciences. As in any industry, management, employees and staff are the key to a company's success. And given The Employment Company's depth of experience and market knowledge, we can help you acquire, develop and manage the talent you need.

Life sciences companies today are coping with ever-changing trends, including funding and managing the long development cycle for products, responding to the rising demands of emerging countries and balancing the needs of the world's changing demographics. When combined with our extensive network in such specialties as biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, medical devices, consumer health and life sciences contract services, our reach and industry knowledge allows us to identify the right talent for your needs.

Our recruiters are client and execution focused. We assemble the best team for each assignment to ensure we tap into our superior experience, knowledge and reach on behalf of our clients. We take great pride in our one-on-one commitment, our team-based approach, our proactive and responsive disposition and our desire to exceed expectations. Armed with industry knowledge and experience, our staff serves as a strategic partner and trusted advisor to its clients to enable them to succeed.

Our consultants focus on how our client companies compete to be the leader within their chosen sector and whether the business is driven or enabled by technology. Success is not defined, however, solely by technological advances but rather by the ability to fully leverage and execute the strategy. With the convergence of technologies and of industries, the challenges have never been greater. To succeed, companies need employees who have the right mix of experience, skills, and qualities. Our team has a long-standing record of helping clients recruit and retain the right talent.

The Employment Company is a force in the market for finding supply chain management talent. Supply chain management expertise has become a key market differentiator for top performing companies in virtually every industry. Benchmarking statistics show that best-in-class supply chain performance companies are on average 40 to 50 percent more profitable than median performing companies, and enjoy much shorter cash cycle times, significantly faster turnover of inventory, and much lower total supply chain costs. Trends such as globalization, outsourcing and movement of sourcing to low-cost regions have all led to more complexity in supply chains and an even greater need for proven talent.

The Employee Company focuses on meeting the cross industry functional talent needs in supply chain as well as general management talent needs for the vertical market companies that perform supply chain services for other companies. Functional needs include the talent necessary to lead the end-to-end integrated supply chain functions of Demand Planning and Management, Sourcing, Procurement, Manufacturing (internal and outsourced), Distribution and Logistics, Quality, Operations Excellence, and Customer Service. Most of these functions occur in every company that has a supply chain, whether it is Industrial, Consumer, Life Sciences, Technology, Healthcare or Financial Services. This noted, vertical market companies that perform supply chain services include transportation companies (rail, truck, ocean, air), third party logistics (3PL) providers, public warehousing and storage companies, and supply chain consulting companies.

The Employment Company's sustainability initiative is focused on the emerging needs of clients from business, education and nonprofit enterprises in the acquisition and development of talent in the sustainability arena. We see sustainability as a pioneering area in which the development of best-in-class competency and capability profiles for key roles in today's evolving marketplace from the chief sustainability officer to the boardroom are being derived by companies seeking a leg up over their competition.

The Employment Company has the network, insight and expertise to assist clients with the assessment and recruitment of talent in a wide range of roles in which sustainability is reshaping business practices.

The Employment Company will continue to invest in the development of leading-edge thinking on the impacts of sustainability on how we operate our businesses and lead our lives in today's global marketplace. Our involvement includes:

• Research and analysis on leading trends and impacts
• Best-in-class skill and competency profiles
• Executive insights into sustainability organizational models
• Participation in leading organizations and symposiums