PROFESSIONALS OF THE YEAR 2000+
By Evelyn Ryan, CEO
Certified Personnel Consultant
RYAN EXECUTIVE SEARCH & OUTPLACEMENT

Today, business needs professionals totally committed to objectives, analytical and results oriented, self-confident with leadership ability, good communications, team players; success driven. Excellent finance, mathematics and hi-tech know how; achievers of superb results in a highly competitive global market arena.

At RYAN EXECUTIVE SEARCH & OUTPLACEMENT we are proud to be part of this success, having helped many get started in Puerto Rico’s highly complex and sophisticated business environment. We feel that Puerto Rican management talent is groomed to take advantage of this challenge and make its way to the top. Ryan is the search firm that connects industry with the most capable professionals. Our Puerto Rican market has it all.

Future CEO’s will need to develop specific behavior traits. Among these, they will need to convey a strong sense of vision, increase the links between compensation and performance and communicate more frequently with employees. The emphasis on ethics will increase, as well as the formulation of plans for management succession. They will also need to communicate more frequently with customers, and reassign or terminate ineffective employees with diligence. No, “¡Ay Bendito!”

Future candidates for top positions in tomorrows’ companies will need to improve their knowledge and skills in strategy formulation and human resource management. Other traditional skills such as marketing, negotiations, accounting and finance, public speaking and production management will continue to be in demand. As will International economics, computer literacy, science and technology.

Puerto Rico has the second largest concentration of Fortune 500 companies in the world. Because of globalization, pharmaceuticals have developed their operations in Puerto Rico to meet the demands for the supply of the U.S., Latin American and European markets. We are leaders in manufacturing excellence and our economic development reform is making the island even more competitive than our closest rivals, Singapore and Ireland.

This state of affairs should be food for thought for Puerto Rican management talent. For every two production jobs created in the pharmaceutical industry, one support staff job is also generated resulting in 30% of the personnel industry in areas such as engineering, finance, human resources and quality processes.

Well-educated, technically proficient bilingual Puerto Ricans and other Latin Americans occupy more than 90% of the Island’s senior and middle management positions. The financial sector of our economy counts with hundreds of excellent managers, financial experts, credit analysts and CEOs. Partner Elisa Favale, CPC, our Sr. Finance Consultant, knows where to find them.

In commerce, we have thousands of excellent people in sales, marketing, advertising and public relations, with many of them occupying major positions in client companies in Puerto Rico, the U.S., South and Central America and Europe. Terence L. Ryan, our President and Sr. Sales & Marketing Consultant knows these professionals.

Increasingly, Puerto Rican and Latin American talent are making major inroads in engineering and architecture, science and technology. Our Senior Manufacturing, Engineering & IT Consultants, Partner Madeline Figueroa, MA and Mildred Oliveras, BBA, know these professionals and where to find them.

We have excellent and successful results recruiting for many complete start-up operations from CEO’s, CFO’s, Presidents, General Managers to Administrative Assistants. The contact here is Evelyn Ryan, CPC, CEO.

Our people are demonstrating that they have what it takes to make it to the top, and they are getting there. These examples are everywhere; all you have to do is read about it.

To mention a few, prominent publicists Mr. and Mrs. Gaspar Roca, Mr. Gerry Angulo, the Casianos, the Ferrés, Ms. Lily Molina and Francisco Framil; prominent women such as Hon. Sila María Calderón, our Governor, Lucy Crespo, Waleska Rivera, Socorro Rivas, Karen Oliver, Zoila Levis, Cindy Anderson and many more.

There are executives, Solomon Levis, Joaquin Viso, Abelardo Ruíz, Angel Piñeira, Pepe Méndez and Angel Torres. The list goes on to world-renowned ambassadors Marc Anthony, Jennifer López and Ricky Martin, entertainment, Chi Chi Rodríguez, golf, Ivan Rodríguez and Igor González, baseball, Tito Trinidad and John Ruíz in boxing, Denise Quiñones and Dayanara Torres as the most beautiful women. We have Puerto Ricans making a difference in politics such as Senators, José Serrano and Nydia Velázquez. We even had the first woman Surgeon General of the United States, Dr. Antonia Coello de Novello. The present Surgeon General, Dr. Richard Carmona is also a puertorican!

In commerce the list of success stories is long and rich in history and in entrepreneurship, too extensive to continue for want of space.

There it is. The to do list is now yours to follow up. RYAN EXECUTIVE SEARCH & OUTPLACEMENT will be here to help you out.