CHICAGO – February 29, 2012 – Addison Search, a leading provider of professional staffing services, today announced the acquisition of Addison Group, an Oklahoma-based firm that connects technical, financial, support and engineering professionals with talent-driven organizations. Despite the similarity in names, the companies had no prior connection.

The acquisition provides Addison Search a leading presence in several new high-growth markets, anchored by a tenured leadership team. The transaction is aligned with Addison’s strategy to expand its national service footprint through organic growth and acquisition of high-growth, high-margin firms with a complementary service offering.

“We saw a clear opportunity to leverage Addison Group’s high-caliber team and proven performance into a powerful combined solutions provider,” said Thomas Moran, CEO of Addison Search. “The strong operational and cultural alignment between our two firms provides a ready-made platform for exceptional delivery.”

David Morgan, President of Addison Search, added, “This partnership amplifies our national model for operational best practices based on innovative technology, in-depth screening and key metrics. We share a collective vision of bringing people and companies together to achieve the remarkable.”

Addison Group was founded in 2002 by David Moore and Rob Zumwalt, and the firm has experienced consistent and significant growth since inception. Both principals, along with Managing Partner Jason Reagan, will retain senior leadership roles with the expanded company. “We could not be more excited about the future,” said Moore, Founding Partner. “Our combination with Addison Search will create an impactful organization committed to quality, integrity and results,” said Zumwalt, Founding Partner.

Addison Search is a portfolio company of Lake Capital, a private equity firm based in Chicago.

About Addison Search
Addison Search is a leading provider of professional staffing and permanent placement services for finance & accounting, information technology, financial operations, administrative, and nonclinical healthcare professionals. Addison’s strengths are its strong management and executive teams, a relationship‐focused selling strategy, a history with clients of delivering the right candidate at the right time, and a loyal candidate base.

Since Addison’s first full year of operations the company has grown significantly. As a result, Addison was recognized by Crain’s Chicago Business in 2007, 2008, and 2009 as one of the fastest growing Chicago‐based companies and by the Staffing Industry Report as one of the fastest growing staffing firms for 2006, 2007, 2008, and 2009. In 2010, Addison ranked 1276 on the Inc 500 list of fastest growing companies and 21st within the staffing industry. Based solely on client and candidate feedback, Addison made the Inavero’s 2012 Best of Staffing List for both Client and Candidates.

Learn more at www.addisonsearch.com

Temporary workers aren’t just for the winter holidays. Your organization might experience a busy time during any season, or you may need extra hands on deck to handle special projects. Temporary workers can be valuable parts of you team if you treat them as such from the start.

Boost their contributions with these tactics:
•Training. Even a fast-track on-boarding program will give temporary workers an introduction to your products and processes. “At many retailers that I’ve worked for in the past, you just gave them a badge and off they went,” says Mark Tesseyman, managing director for the retailer Bonmarché in the United Kingdom.

• Bonuses. To ensure that workers don’t abandon the stores just when Bonmarché needs them, the retailer pays retention bonuses at the end of a busy season. You should include temporary staff in routine motivation efforts as well. “It’s about pumping them up,” says Dennis Reid, managing director of Retail Performance Specialists. “Give them daily targets in operations, customer service and sales. Give them product-knowledge quizzes.”

• Mentors. Pairing temporary staff members with your top performers creates a win-win environment. While learning the ropes, temps can take on responsibilities that would otherwise keep veterans from focusing on higher-level concerns.

– Adapted form “Here Today, Gone Tomorrow,” Liz Morrell, Retail Week

Boost morale and productivity by creating a system that allows colleagues to recognize one another. “Most human beings in the work environment rarely know what contribution they are making because no one ever tells them,” says Cary Cooper, a professor of organizational psychology at Lancaster University. Through peer recognition, they’ll be rewarded for work that you, as the manager, never see.

Set up your system with these guidelines:
   • Encourage participation. Make it easy for workers to nominate others for rewards, by telling the manager or filling out a form online. Or set up an employee committee to select nominees.

   • Know why they’re great. Require the workers submitting nominations to explain why their colleagues deserve rewards, and explain those qualifications to everyone when you present the award.

   • Make rewards fast and widespread. Reward employees as soon as they’ve acted in a way that merits recognition, and you reinforce that behavior. Also, don’t severely limit the number of people who can win or you will kill the motivation you seek to create.

– Adapted from “Cheer On Peer Plans,” David Woods, Employee Benefits,

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