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News Release Corporate Contact: Marissa Lamb
Employee Relations Associates
Phone: (585) 420-3901
Media Contact:
David M. Grome
Eric Mower and Associates
Phone: 585-389-1843
October 29, 2010
EMPLOYEE RELATIONS ASSOCIATES RANKS #2 IN 2010 ROCHESTER TOP 100 COMPANIES
ER Associates tops the service industry category at #1
ROCHESTER, N.Y.,—Employee Relations Associates, Inc. (ER Associates) today announced that it ranks #2 among all businesses in the 2010 Rochester Top 100, and #1 among businesses in the service industry. This is the fourth time that ER Associates has been ranked in the Rochester Top 100, a list of the area’s fastest growing privately held companies. As a strategic consulting and services firm, ER Associates provides recruiting and staffing solutions for both business clients and individual candidates.
The list, compiled each year by the Rochester Business Alliance and KPMG LLP, recognizes the fastest-growing, privately held businesses in the region that demonstrate a commitment to innovation and entrepreneurial spirit.
“The company’s growth over the past several years has been phenomenal. Yet, I’m most proud of how our team has been able to achieve the goals of so many clients and candidates amidst these challenging economic times,” said Thomas C. Ioele, president and CEO, ER Associates. “At ER Associates, each of our relationships forms a strategic partnership that requires us to deliver hands-on attention and insight that enables us to be extremely flexible and adapt quickly to a diverse range of situations.”
Ioele attributes much of ER Associates’ expansion to the ongoing success of its recruitment process outsourcing that enables employers to rely on ER Associates to manage the strategy and execution of its recruitment programs. In total, ER Associates grew by more than 500 percent in the past seven years with current annual revenue expected to exceed $40 million. To manage this rate of growth, ER Associates continues to hire professionals, invest in cutting-edge technology solutions and build services that enable it to constantly improve capabilities
ER Associates maintains staffing and outplacement contracts throughout all 50 states and Canada for mortgage, banking, financial services and information technology industries, including several major agreements with large national and international financial institutions.
“A focus on cultivating consultative partnerships drives our steady, client-first approach, which includes a global perspective and big-picture questions,” said Jill Knittel, vice president, ER Associates. “This helps our candidates and clients constantly improve their capabilities and sharpen their competitive edge in the market.”
Regardless of industry, each of ER Associates’ client and candidate receives personalized services, underscored by the team’s commitment to openness and transparency, which enables better communication and stronger results. ER Associates also uses its combined knowledge, expertise and experience to enrich the long-term competencies, skills and talents of its clients and candidates.
“While we work extremely hard, we also make sure that this is a fun and collaborative work environment, which provides a great atmosphere for all of our staff, employees, candidates and clients,” said Ioele. “Our new office definitely helps us to create stronger integration between our teams. You’ll regularly find that we find creative ways to get the entire staff together—whether a barbeque or group book reading—it’s like family at ER Associates.”
ER Associates recently purchased and renovated a 7,200-square foot office building at 7 Linden Park as its new headquarters. The building provides ER Associates’ staff with more collaborative workspaces that complement its client- and customer-focused services.
Through a partnership with Career Partners International, LLC, ER Associates offers its clients a highly diversified consulting firm that can provide its services regionally, nationally and internationally. ER Associates also maintains a presence throughout the Northeast, Mid-Atlantic, Mid-West, Southwest and the West Coast.
About Employee Relations Associates, Inc.
Founded in 1985 by Thomas Ioele, Employee Relations Associates, Inc. (ER Associates) offers its clients a suite of complimentary services—executive search, contract staffing, career transition and outplacement. Employee Relations Associates owes its success to two core competencies: a clear understanding of each client’s business and employee requirements, and a recruiting model that allows the company to access and retain the most desirable candidates to meet each client’s needs. ER Associates’ offerings – Career Partners International (CPI) and Executive Search – demonstrate the company’s scope and expertise.
ER Associates counts among its existing clients a wide range of local, regional, national, and multinational firms in mortgage banking, financial services, legal, and related fields. With the combined strength of its strategically focused contract staffing business, executive search platform and global outplacement organization, ER Associates is poised to continue its extraordinary growth into 2010 and beyond. More information about ER Associates is available at www.er-associates.com, or by calling 1-800-390-4098.
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