To the Corporate Market

First and foremost, I would like to take this opportunity to thank you for your interest in LAS Management Consulting Group Inc. The following will provide you, the corporate employer, an opportunity to gain insight into a very special brand of recruiting which has been specifically geared to the IT Audit, Security, e-Commerce and Enterprise Systems Management disciplines. With over twenty years of specialized search experience in this industry, we consider ourselves uniquely qualified to provide insight into the prospective candidate market.

It is important to understand our position in the market, which by choice has isolated us from the day-to-day recruiting operations you are probably more familiar with. In the last ten years, our brand of recruitment has been embraced particularly by those organizations that required top-flight talent, whose ability and performance in client facing situations has meant the difference between total success and absolute failure. Through exclusivity agreements, our services have provided our client base the ability to gain not only market share, but also market dominance in the delivery of IT Audit and Security Services on a global scale. Assignments of this magnitude require very strong working relationships, which allow for total understanding as it pertains to a firm’s critical need and future plans for growth. An absolute trust is required where critical information can be freely received and provided, without a second thought or apprehension. In order to provide this level of value, a winning determination must be intrinsic throughout the management team. Only with total management support can search activities of this magnitude be affective. The winning attitude by management and desire to take this aggressive posture into the open market must be apparent.

I am sure by now, some of you are asking yourself: do we need this level of service? Do we need a recruiting program, which requires support from top management? Maybe, maybe not. Our brand of recruiting services is not for the meek or timid. It requires a team on the inside who will be charged with the energy and enthusiasm necessary when confronted with your competitor’s most valuable player during an interview. In the big game, when you’re competing for position in the market, it’s not always enough to table a great athlete, but just as important to remove that individual and their team from your competitive market. This is an intense example; one, which should provide you with some idea as to the level of service LAS, is capable of delivering.

Through ongoing intelligence gathering, our team receives information on a daily basis that allows us to identify and track top talent globally. This talent in some cases is completely unknown to the general market. They are the stars hidden within organizations, working in groups with ambiguous titles. With managements mentoring programs, they are maintaining a watchful eye over their gems and ensuring direct contact from the outside be kept at a minimal. These are the players, the individuals being groomed for greatness. They are the visionaries who are invited to lunch periodically by the CFO, the shinning star selected to attend specialty training typically reserved for those in the “E” suite. Chasing professionals who are accustomed to receiving perks even in down markets, is not a venture you want to undertake, unless you are prepared to deal with the tough issues and provide the potential candidate with a level of confidence which in turn will influence their decision making process.

Working closely with the professionals at LAS, you will project a consistent message; a message of confidence and support, equating into the results your firm requires in implementing it’s corporate plans. Activating these individuals requires finesse and a level of competence only gained through years of working meticulously in the Executive Search Industry. As for those professionals that are market facing and well known to the industry, but yet considered untouchable by their peers, I tell you nothing is impossible and no one is untouchable. In every scenario, there is a process. Placing the challenge on the table prompts the recruiting process, each unique unto itself. Each search requires special tactics and counter actions which in many cases prompt ardent measures. How long will it be before this person has a bad day, before promises are broken or commitments deferred? When that happens…. I will be there, not for the first time, but as a familiar face providing the insight and encouragement needed to make that all important introduction to my client, who all along has been prepared to deal with this situation.

At LAS, we provide a unique brand of recruiting approach and when considering the results of our labor over the last decade, we look proudly at our accomplishments. We have stayed tried and true to our profession, maintaining a personal approach to the recruitment process and introduction, resisting the trends in technology related recruiting tactics, which has caused so many fine recruiting firms to turn mediocre. Instead we embraced the personalized services for which there can never be a substitute. Opting to embrace our personalized service, we believe our clients and candidates have benefited to the extent, which can be viewed through the bottom line and increased job satisfaction. It is no surprise that large Internet talent pools have produced at best, average or mediocre candidates, resulting in poor performance and higher maintenance cost on behalf of the employer. In most cases, the overall cost to the employer for opting to hire an average performer is far more than the typical search fee.

We have made it our mission to understand current trends in technology, which in turn allows us to evaluate a candidate’s ability and shortcomings. We are practiced in the art of focusing in on those professionals who possess passion in their daily activity. In turn, you the client, can concentrate on only those candidates who are considered critical to your organization.

If you seek Search expertise in the field of Information Systems Security, IT Audit, e-Commerce and Enterprise Systems Management, and the organization for which you work is prepared to support an aggressive recruiting program, then you need to make contact with the professionals at LAS Management.

Sincerely,

Tom DeAngelo

President

LAS Executive Search, Inc.