We are professional educators dedicated to helping a district select an administrator who will serve that district effectively. We understand community colleges and how to work with boards, faculty, staff, students, and communities. Here are some unique aspects of our services:

1. Professional Personnel Leasing, Inc. (PPL) has been serving California Community Colleges since 1978. We have been called upon for interim administrators, searches, and consulting by districts and colleges because they know that we provide quality and effective service

2. Our price is competitive, and our travel expenses will be minimal.

3. We will work hard to assure that the Search process is a college and community wide experience in which everyone has a possibility for involvement and can become a part of the decision making process.

4. The Search process as we design it will help the College become more aware of its strengths, the challenges it faces, and the kind of leadership needed to meet the challenges.

5. Our reference checking has been reported to be very helpful in decision making by the Search Committed and by the Board.

6. Our recruitment results in size and diversity have been very good in comparison to other district searches. Our placements have reflected outstanding diversity.

7. Our philosophy is to advise not to direct a district in its search efforts. We will suggest practices and approaches that have been successful and ones that have been problematic but we will not insist on a specific way to do something. We will ask for confidentiality for the candidates in the process up to the point that they become finalists, and we will also ask for full and equal consideration for each qualified candidate.

8. Our firm works as a team. We will have the talents of Dr. Grace Mitchell, Dr. Carl Ehmann, Dr. Donald Averill, Dr. Jack Bessire and Dr. John Anthony available, including their assistance in recruitment and reference checking.

9. We have an alliance with ERCS in Texas that expands our recruitment and reference checking ability. In addition, we call upon many of our 200 PPL consultants who to help us locate candidates.

10. A primary function of PPL has been to refer interim administrators to districts. Our service is well known in the state as efficient and effective. This activity has made us very sensitive to the administrative needs of districts and has helped us understand the dynamics involved in seeing a new president.