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L.D.A. Enterprises, Ltd. EmploymentClinic.com • ReferenceClinic.com • ResumeClinic.com

______________________________________________________________________ Parkdale Plaza • 1660 South Highway 100, Suite 500, St. Louis Park, MN 55416 • (952) 697-3663 • [email protected]

ABOUT OUR COMPANY Founded in 1980, L.D.A. Enterprises, Ltd. is a critically acclaimed Outplacement, career management, and candidate’s agent consulting group with corporate offices located in the Twin Cities. Our company has focused on helping individuals to reach personal, professional, and financial objectives through effective career development and management growth techniques. Our three operating divisions are The Employment Clinic; The Reference Clinic; and The Resume Clinic. Information about our services is available by contacting us at (952) 697-3663, through accessing our corporate website at www.EmploymentClinic.com, by email at: [email protected]. Our corporate mission: L.D.A. Enterprises has an unwavering commitment to provide the highest quality of service in the Outplacement industry. Our purpose is to help our clients to reach both life and career objectives through innovative and caring programs. Our guiding principles are: a pledge of corporate integrity, maintaining the highest ethical standards in the conduct of business, a dedication to professionalism in every aspect of our services, and a responsibility to ensure genuine value to those individuals who have invested in our programs. A brief description of each division follows:

Our Employment Clinic division provides a full range of marketing and support services for individuals seeking to improve their career situation, find new employment, better manage career growth, or deal with internal politics and personality related conflict. Our marketing program service offerings include:          

Employment goal setting and strategy Development of personal marketing programs Formulation of realistic career options Preparation of resumes, cover letters, and other motivational materials Implementation of effective networking methods Understanding and exploiting the hidden job market Development of interviewing and self-presentation skills Interview follow-up techniques Assessing employment opportunities Evaluating and negotiating specific job offers

Advising senior executives in negotiating more favorable working situations and compensation packages.  Telephone contact training  Entrepreneurial and business planning ______________________________________________________________________ ____________________________ Career Management Services • Corporate Outplacement • Reference Investigations Small Business and Executive Advisors • Resume and Cover Letter Specialists

 Advice in starting and growing a consulting practice or home based business  Ongoing counseling and support throughout the entire job search process.

Additional Employment Clinic services include:

1.On-the-job career protection and advancement services including: preparation and strategy for dealing with performance reviews, acting as advisors and mediators in resolving workplace and personality related conflict, and assisting our clients to achieve specific career and compensation objectives.

2.Corporate outplacement and counseling services.

Our services include a variety individualized counseling programs, seminar outplacement programs to assist with larger numbers of discharged employees, and spousal transplacement services to assist the spouse of a relocated employee. We specifically tailor our programs to meet the particular needs of each corporate client. We also coach management staff in handling issues associated with employee termination, and serve as mediators facilitating resolution to internal employee and management conflict.

3.Publication of the complete career management workbook entitled “Tomorrow is Today,” a comprehensive tool to assist the individual in getting and keeping their next job. It is also an excellent resource for the employer that wants to provide a cost-efficient support vehicle for their terminated employees as they search for a new job.

4.Entrepreneurial advisory services.

We advise in areas of business planning and due diligence, assist in the formulation and review of business plans, and offer help in assessing key business and employee relationships as a risk management tool. We also offer start-up and marketing assistance for those initiating a consulting practice.

Our Resume Clinic division specializes in the creation of high quality resumes, cover letters, and other motivational correspondence for discerning professionals who want the very best marketing tools. We provide three unique and individually tailored products:  Our standard professional resume service – an exceptionally high quality product at an affordable price  Our executive resume service – tailored to the six-figure income professional who requires more specialized attention – for the discriminating professional  Preparation of cover letters and other motivational materials Clients that utilize our resume service receive free valuable guides to assist them as they implement their job search marketing campaign.

Our Reference Clinic division has over 25 years of experience verifying references background and credentials for a large variety of clients. Our reference investigation services focus in the following areas:

Checking references from previous employers, associates, or other sources  Reference checking services for the new college, trade, or business school graduate ______________________________________________________________________ ____________________________ Career Management Services • Corporate Outplacement • Reference Investigations Small Business and Executive Advisors • Resume and Cover Letter Specialists

 Nanny reference investigation services to insure quality nurturing for you children All clients of Referenceclinic.com receive valuable benefits that are not offered through any other reference checking company.

Our Key Corporate Executives: Lawrence D. Alter, President and Chief Executive Officer Lawrence Alter is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of L.D.A. Enterprises, an Outplacement and career guidance firm focusing on career growth, reference verification, and resume/motivational letter services for professionals in transition. He is a veteran sales/marketing executive and an established leader in Outplacement and career counseling. He has successfully developed and managed the efforts of three major Midwest based career management firms. Mr. Alter is an acclaimed industry expert whose advice has been quoted in a variety of publications including Fortune Magazine, Minneapolis Tribune, Chicago Sun Times, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Tampa Florida Tribune, Houston Chronicle, and numerous online periodicals. His own column, the “The EmploymentClinic, ” appeared for several years in the CareerBuilder section of the St. Paul Pioneer Press, Minnesota’s second largest newspaper publication. He is also the author of a 220-page career management workbook entitled “Tomorrow Is Today, the complete guide for getting and keeping your next job.” Mr. Alter has 30 years of experience successfully guiding thousands of professionals in achieving both career and compensation goals. His marketing methods have proven valuable in assisting people at all levels generate new and meaningful employment, start a consulting practice or business enterprise, better manage an existing employment situation, or deal with the politics related to internal growth. He has been equally effective in helping new college graduates launch their careers, mid-level managers on the way up, senior executives striving for greater challenge, professionals in the non-profit world, and those in their 50’s or 60’s who may be in the twilight of their career. He is an excellent negotiator and astute at mediating both political and personality conflict issues. His clients have included a wide variety of business professionals, retired military officers, educators and educational administrators, and executives in the non-profit community. His education, in Industrial Psychology, was achieved at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Previously, he served as National Sales Manager for several consumer products manufacturing companies.

Edna M. Campbell Vice President Client Services Ms. Campbell joined L.D.A. Enterprises in 1989 as an Internal Consultant and Project Manager, promoted in 1995 to Marketing Manager, and finally in 2000 to Vice President of Client Services and full equity Partner in the firm. She has responsibility for designing and implementing all corporate marketing programs, designing the administrative policies and procedures, managing all corporate client service and support issues, directing group sessions and client guidance programs, and client counseling functions. Additionally, her background includes extensive experience in health care provider delivery systems, implementation of treatment programs, strategic planning, financial administration, staff training and development, dispute resolution, and creating and employing sound management practices. Ms. Campbell possesses a Baccalaureate degree in counseling from Metropolitan State University, St. Paul, MN and has over 25 years experience in dealing with individual counseling issues. ______________________________________________________________________ ____________________________ Career Management Services • Corporate Outplacement • Reference Investigations Small Business and Executive Advisors • Resume and Cover Letter Specialists

She has played a key role in managing client marketing and goal achievement programs, the design and execution of mentoring programs, advising clients on balancing work and family issues, and managing the special issues faced by professional women in the workplace. She has demonstrated outstanding success at facilitating resolution to both family and organizational conflict, building and maintaining sound business and client relationships, and at identifying and resolving client problems.

Wayne L. Freeman Member of the Board of Directors Wayne Freeman has had an exceptional record as entrepreneur and business owner. He is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Executive Suites of Minnesota, the largest upper Midwest based executive suites complex with over 325 individual offices located in five Twin City area locations. Previously Mr. Freeman owned Wholesale Lighting Inc., a multi-million dollar lighting fixture business with six retail showrooms and a wholesale division catering to builders and contractors nationwide. Mr. Freeman achieved his Baccalaureate degree in 1961 from the University of Minnesota. He has distinguished himself as past President of the American Home Lighting Institute – Show Room Division; Lighting Person of the Year from the American Home Lighting Institute; recipient of numerous Illuminating Engineering Society Awards; and has been sited by the Twin Cities Business Journal as the top Executive Suites complex in the upper Midwest.

Barry M. Krelitz Member of the Board of Directors Barry Krelitz has a long and distinguished career in senior management as the Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Minneapolis based Twin City Wholesale Drug Company (Krelitz Industries), and its pharmacy management division, Viking Computer Services. He guided its profitable growth from a $35 million firm to over $250 million in annual revenues. He is a nationally recognized leader in the wholesale drug industry who has established himself as a significant business and community leader. Mr. Krelitz has also been the President of a national consortium of Drug Wholesalers; served as Vice-Chairman, Board of Governors, Mt. Sinai Hospital, Minneapolis, Minnesota; acted as President of the Alumni Association, University of Minnesota College of Pharmacy; and functioned as an Adjunct Professor at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota. He achieved his B.S. in Pharmacy in 1962 from the University of Minnesota.

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