Sherri Elliott and Don Hanratty will lead Optimance focusing on Human Resource and talent issues. While listening to our customers, it is our intent to grow Optimance to become a Dallas 100 and Inc.500 company. Jim Davidson will continue to lead The Career Control Group. Don Hanratty and Sherri Elliott offer more than forty years of hands-on experience building solutions with employer executives. Both are authors, speakers and presenters and leaders in charitable and professional organizations. Sherri will continue her success in helping business leaders and owners increase the value of Human Resource capital. She is a SPHR and ARM. Sherri takes the time to educate her clients about the importance of HR in business risk issues. She also brings to the Optimance team a terrific list of colleagues through SHRM, Dallas HR, and Success North Dallas. At Optimance, we’re passionate about changing business and career lives. We have prospered because our staff of innovative, industry-leading professionals has a broad base of technical and business expertise - skills that we utilize in furthering all of our clients’ interests and in achieving superior results in the design and operation of their human resource management efforts. Our new partnership will multiply our opportunities to unleash the performance potential of people and organizations. While working together, our teams will be better equipped to help companies maximize their human capital, improve talent retention and succession practices, reduce employer risks and liabilities, strengthen individual executive and management team productivity, refine Human Resource practices, and deal with sensitive talent issues in a positive manner. Please welcome Sherri to her new ownership role.

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Don Hanratty and Sherri Elliott offer more than forty years of hands-on experience building win-win solutions with Employers of Choice executives. Both are authors, speakers, and leaders in professional, civic, and charitable organizations. Jim Davidson leads the consultant team and coordinates service/technology offerings. In our 24th year we serve changing organizations and their talent. Don Hanratty founded The Career Control Group that has been honored for two consecutive years as an Inc. 500 company and a Dallas 100 company. In addition, Don has authored two books—"Career Continuation" and "Manage Your Own Career." We provide Career Continuation, Strategic Executive Development, Career Counsel, Succession and Assessment solutions. Sherri Elliott is the President of the Optimance Workforce Strategies team providing an integrated range of time and cost saving business solutions through Human Resource audits, compliance, outsourcing, recruiting and training programs. As a SPHR and ARM, Sherri takes the time to educate her clients on HR business risk issues. Our customers are Employers of Choice who have been included in The Top 100 Places to Work. Our customers share the challenge of retaining, promoting, selecting, developing, merging, releasing and hiring talent. We have helped our customers improve the bottom line as they report cost reductions, productivity improvements, time savings, less undesirable turnover, efficient reorganizations, and positive public and employee relations. The Career Control Group and Optimance Workforce Strategies multiply opportunities to unleash the performance potential of organizations and their people. Working closely together our teams are equipped to help maximize human capital, improve talent retention, reduce liabilities and risk, strengthen management team productivity, refine human resource practices, and deal with sensitive talent issues in a positive manner. As a Career Partners International firm, we own part of a system of talent management firms with 175 offices in 43 countries. Each CPI firm is carefully selected after business achievements in their respective markets. Leading CEOs, Presidents, and Founders recognize that the business is dependent on talent. Today more than ever before our customers are concerned about becoming an Employer of Choice through talent management and human resources management. For more information, contact Don or Sherri at 469.467.2800, hanratty@optimance.com or selliott@optimance.com.

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From your observation, what is the primary focus of your Human Resources Department? If an external agent was wishing to do you harm, what would be your vulnerability? On a scale of 1 to 10 – with 1 being "at great risk" and 10 being "totally complaint" where do you think your organization would lie if a current assessment were to be done in your organization? Where do you think your HR Department would place your organization? In what areas to you think your organization is weakest and what can be done to "fix" it? What areas do you think most organizations fail in the most? If a time and cost-effective tool were available to help reduce your risk how likely would you be to utilize it?

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