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Dear Sirs/Madams,

Let us introduce you firm commonly known as CALRA, the first locally staffed and managed professional recruitment organization throughout Central Asia. Founded back in 1993, CALRA (locally known as Personnel Recruitment Centre "Career") has an extremely successful and now really unbeatable track record in all varieties of recruitment services.

We are servicing both multinationals, joint ventures and significant local outfits alike. In no other business, perhaps, the fact that we are of local origin would be of such importance. In recruitment and manpower business, our supreme advantage stems from the fact that we are intimately acquainted with the conditions and requirements peculiar to Kazakhstan and the whole region. Our first hand experience of operating within the local legal environment and our innate knowledge and understanding of Central Asian cultures puts us in the enviable position of being probably the most well positioned people to help you in staffing your offices and country-wide operation in the region. These days, CALRA through its subsidiaries is starting to cover all different segments of recruitment: executive search, personnel recruitment, and corporation contract services.

For the last four years we have established and largely enhanced co-operation with both major foreign representations and local companies. Since 1994 CALRA group companies placed hundreds of professionals, these days successfully employed in Kazakhstan, Central Asia and even Caucasus countries. You may easily count on the quality of recruitment services we have been providing for companies and consortiums like Arthur Andersen, Bechtel International, Mars, Sun Microsystems, Halliburton, Agip KCO, KPO b.v., ABB Asea Brown Boveri, Shell Lubricants, Ferrero East Europe, Schlumberger, Almaty Tobacco Co. (Philip Morris Group of companies), Oracle, Motorola as well as to the biggest local conglomerates.

Needless to say that properly selected and trained professionals represent the most valuable resource for any company. We do believe that utilising our expanding recruitment network both in oil rich Kazakhstani provinces (Aktau, Aturay, Aksai (Western Kazakhstan) offices are already open and operative, Uzbekistan and Azerbaidjan offices are scheduled to open in 2001) is probably the most effective solution to your staffing needs anywhere in Central Asia and Caucasus. Our professional team is always ready to meet and to discuss your particular needs in detail.

We offer several types of recruitment:

Executive Search

This is the most difficult, and occasionally risky segment of human resource recruitment, as well as being potentially the most expensive. However, Customer will be offered the best candidates available to fill Senior Management positions for various roles in any particular country of our vast region.

Every assignment is backed with 9-12 months free of charge replacement guarantee and no one of our Senior Managers employed for years, left their respective companies due to unsatisfactory performance.

Quality of our services in that category can be further enhanced via "associate relationships" with world leading executive search firm, Korn Ferry International. Needless to say we are able to place expatriates as well as locals.

Personnel Recruitment

Here we can supply highest calibre individuals properly selected and pre-motivated to fill management vacancies. Our market-tested experience confirms an unmatched quality of our personnel recruitment services we are offering.

Search and selection procedures can be customized while looking for:

1. finance, banking, accounting (local and GAAP)
2. legal
3. marketing, sales, logistics
4. advertisement and public relations
5. technical support and production
6. secretarial, administration
7. IT, engineering, HSE and construction

Every assignment is backed with up to 6-12 months replacement (sometimes even money-back) guarantee. Believe us or not but among many hundreds employed ever since 1993, less than 20 individuals were considered inappropriate for long term employment. Our internationally based competitors usually prefer to head hunt professionals we once placed - this certifies quality of services we have achieved!

At present, we are seriously biased towards filling tens and tens of technical openings (engineers, instrumentalists, welders, etc.) since Kazakhstan, especially its Western regions are eagerly consuming every trained professional we can find and who is willing to relocate to Aktau, Aturay or Uralsk/Aksai from other regions of the country.

Corporation Contract Services

Trying to match the quality of services available in OECD countries whilst understanding fully the peculiarities of Central Asia business practices, we have decided, back in 1998 to start offering corporation contract services exactly in the manner available, for example, in the United States and in Europe through the famous Manpower (Adecco/Olsen, Kelly Services) network.

From July 5^th 1999 till early 2001 we have been in servicing association with Manpower International to provide personnel leasing to Fluor Daniel - Caspian Pipeline Project (Atyrau).

Please let us know if you are interested in utilizing our potential for targeting right individuals for your company and we will be happy to discuss your particular needs.

We would be pleased to hear any suggestions on how we can improve our server.