The Avery Point Group  Six Sigma
 Lean Transformation
Let Us Lead You to Executive Talent SM  Operational Excellence
 Plant Management
 Operations Management
 Supply Chain Management
 Finance Management
The Value of Career Diversity The Avery Point Group
A good financial advisor would recommend diversifying your investment Overview
portfolio as a way to reduce your market risk and maximize your investment The Avery Point Group is a global
returns. Yet many people fail to manage their careers with the same mindset. executive search and recruiting firm that
They often spend year after year, investing their talents and skills in a narrow assists companies in identifying,
field of career focus. assessing and recruiting mid-level
management to senior executive talent.
Our firm leverages its principals’
Until recently, this narrow career focused approach made a lot of sense. decades of executive operations and
Traditional career guidance dictated that if you do one thing really well and staffing experience to provide the
build a career around it, you’ll never be out of a job. But the global economy highest quality executive search
has changed things. While it’s still true that a solid career can be built on a services.
foundation of position-specific expertise, it’s become increasingly important to
maintain a diversified career portfolio to increase your marketability in the Our firm provides functional expertise
workplace. In today’s global economy, employers are looking for candidates and executive search focus in the areas
with a broad spectrum of skills that can cross a variety of disciplines. of Six Sigma, Lean, operational
excellence, plant management,
operations management, supply chain
In other words, as organizations become leaner and more agile, more is management, and finance. As executive
expected from each contributor. This means that diversifying your skills is not recruiters our practice services a wide
only a smart career move; it’s become a key ingredient in modern-day career spectrum of industries, spanning
progression. manufacturing, distribution and service-
based companies.
We are not suggesting you spread yourself so thin as to master nothing at all.
But, in order to reach the top-percentile status in today’s global job market, Download our web brochure:
you’ll need an expanded breadth of career skills in order to compete. Executive Search PDF Brochure
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To round out your resume, look for areas of weakness (or “blind spots”), and LeanSixSigmaJobs.blogspot.com
try to develop them into strengths. Look for career broadening assignments
that will allow you to diversify your skills. This may mean taking on a special Learn about our Search Process:
project or making a move to a new company that will allow you to augment LeanSigmaSearch.com
your skill base and broaden your career. In the end, by challenging yourself to
broaden and diversify your career portfolio, you will increase your value in the Lean Sigma Talent Demand Trends:
workplace market. LeanSigmaTalent.com
Our Mission
The Avery Point Group's mission is to
assist our clients in defining their
leadership needs, then find, and deliver
those leaders essential to our clients’
success. Our priority is to provide
superior service that exceeds our
clients’ expectations and critical to
quality (CTQ) requirements.
We create executive search strategies
based on a client’s individual critical to
quality staffing needs. We leverage our
Lean Sigma Search™ value stream
process, our broad industry knowledge
and our extensive database of contacts
to find candidates who are uniquely
qualified to fill our clients’ most critical
mid-to senior-level leadership roles.

The Avery Point Group  Six Sigma
 Lean Transformation
Let Us Lead You to Executive Talent SM  Operational Excellence
 Plant Management
 Operations Management
 Supply Chain Management
 Finance Management
PROCESS and Lean Sigma SearchTM Process practice services a wide spectrum of industries,
spanning manufacturing, distribution and
SERVICES service-based companies.
Our Contingent Search Services:
 Leverage our principals’ decades of executive
operations and staffing experience.
 Leverage our extensive proprietary database of
contacts and candidates.
 Leverage our Lean Sigma Search™ value
Search excellence starts with the sound stream process to find the ideal candidate.
foundation of a well-defined and consistent  Our clients only pay upon the successful
search methodology. Our Lean Sigma Search™ placement of our presented candidates.
value stream process methodology incorporates  Fee is based on a percentage of the candidate’s
a unique Lean Six Sigma approach to filling our first year’s total compensation.
clients’ staffing needs.  We offer our clients a 60-day replacement
guarantee.
An important foundation of Lean Six Sigma
methodology is the concept of waste and defect Our Retained Search Services:
elimination. Lean Six Sigma defines a defect in
terms of meeting the specifications, expectations  Leverage our principals’ decades of executive
and requirements of the customer. What is a operations and staffing experience.
defect with regard to the executive search  Leverage our extensive proprietary database of
process? Presenting unqualified candidates, contacts and candidates.
candidates with missing skill sets and candidates  Leverage our Lean Sigma Search™ value
who don’t fit the corporate culture and chemistry stream process to find the ideal candidate.
of the client are just some examples of waste  Client site visit to gain improved insight into
and defects that can result from a poor search company culture = improved candidate fit.
process.  Face to face or video conference interview with
full candidate assessment process
At The Avery Point Group we practice what we methodology: Position Benchmarking
preach when it comes to Lean Six Sigma. Our Specification, Full Written Interview Evaluation,
experience has shown us the importance of and Full Candidate Summary
incorporating the voice of the client (VOC) at  At a minimum, 3 - 4 candidates meeting our
each critical phase in the value stream clients’ requirements will be presented in 60
placement process. We take great care in days.
defining and characterizing the client’s critical to  Fee is based on a percentage of the candidate’s
quality (CTQs) requirements, up front, to ensure first year’s total compensation.
successful screening and placement of  One-third of the estimated fee is paid up front to
candidates, thus avoiding waste and defects engage our search services.
that can cost a client time, money, and worse  We offer our clients a 90-day replacement
yet, a poor placement. guarantee.
Each phase of our Lean Sigma Search™ value
stream process is designed to move the process
along efficiently and effectively through our
executive search value stream, thus enabling us
to exceed our clients’ expectations and
requirements.
The Avery Point Group, Inc.
Executive Search Services 4555 Mansell Road – Suite 300
We provide both a contingent and retained Alpharetta, Georgia
search focus with functional expertise in the 30022 USA
areas of Six Sigma, Lean, operational
 excellence, plant management, operations
P: +1 678-585-9804
2004 -2009 management, supply chain management,
distribution management and finance. Our F: +1 678-585-9832
The Avery Point Group