NEW YORK, April 5, 2005 (PRIMEZONE) -- A panel of industry experts has selected Joseph Vales, Senior Partner of the Vales Consulting Group, as a finalist for the Human Resources Association 2005 HRO Thought Leader of the Year Award, sponsored by the HROA(R) and HRO Today magazine.
The HROA and HRO Today will be hosting the awards ceremony on the night of April 12, 2005 in New York City, as part of the New York HR Week and the 3rd Annual HRO World Conference and exhibition. The awards ceremony will recognize industry leaders for their contribution to the advancement of the practice of Human Resources Outsourcing. A blue-ribbon panel of industry analysts will select the winner in the HRO Thought Leader of the Year category.
Vales recently co-wrote a groundbreaking series of white papers on consortia buying; is the popular Cuppa Joe interview columnist in HRO Today magazine; and authors the Marketing and Sales column for the Shared Services BPO Association. He also serves on the Editorial Advisory Board of FAO Today Magazine; is a Founding Trustee of the HRO Association; and co-founder of the Reference Standards Board with Eva Schmatz, the CEO of SUMMUS Research. The Reference Standards Board is an independent organization that works closely with outsourcing service providers to provide client references that help corporate buyers make informed decisions in the industry's highly competitive RFP process.
"The HR outsourcing industry has been propelled by scores of exceptional thought leaders and visionaries who have dedicated themselves and their firms to service excellence and delivering world class solutions," said Joseph Vales, Senior Partner of the Vales Consulting Group. "To be selected by my peers as one of four finalists for the 2005 HR Outsourcing Thought Leader of the Year Award is a special honor that I greatly appreciate."
About Vales Consulting
Joe Vales established the Vales Consulting Group in 2001 as a strategic advisory firm providing marketing and business development services to the top managements of Global 1000 companies, outsourcing service providers, and private equity firms for launching new products/services and building successful businesses. The firm is the most widely used proposal support and marketing consultant in the IT services industry with a proposal win rate that exceeds 70%. Gil Parker, a Director at Vales Consulting Group, leads the firm's sales proposal support consulting practice. Parker has directed, managed, and authored over 225 winning proposals to the boards and senior executive managements of Global 1000 companies. What differentiates the Vales Consulting Group is its in-depth knowledge of market conditions and business opportunities, its world-class sales proposal process expertise from lead generation to close, and its ability to work effectively with senior client executives to build market leadership.
Vales Consulting Group is based in Rye, New York, and can be reached by telephone at 1-914-967-3200 or by email at jvales@valesconsulting.com
About the Reference Standards Board
Headquartered in New York, N.Y., the mission of the Reference Standards Board is to establish high standards of professionalism, independence, and objectivity in the way that executive references are prepared and used throughout the highly competitive sales proposal process. The Board works with service providers to present their client references in the most informative and meaningful way -- with the goal of giving corporate buyers more reliable, credible, insightful information to select the right service firms to meet their particular needs and requirements.
The Reference Standards Board is organized as a central reference source or utility for the outsourcing industry. The Board has established strict standards for the interview process, scope/content of interviews, reference qualifications, and its proprietary research methodology, based on hundreds of interviews with corporate buyers, providers, and strategy consultants in the outsourcing community.
For more information, the Board is located at 708 Third Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10017, and can be reached by telephone at (212) 777-7671 or by email at info@ReferenceStandardsBoard.org