Assess Your BC Career Today ~ to Ensure Your Marketability for the Future

1. Assess Your BC Career Today~ to Ensure Your Marketability for the Future Cheyene Haase BC Management, Inc.

2. Introduction to BC Management, Inc. • Founded in March 2000. • Headquartered in Irvine, CA. • An executive search firm exclusively placing business continuity, disaster recovery, information security and emergency management professionals internationally. • Confidential assistance in personnel placing. • Free e-Newsletter detailing Top Talent & Current Job Openings. • Annual BC/DR salary and BC program review. • Benchmarking individual companies on salary and BC program review.

3. Topics of Presentation • Progression to Today’s BC Professional • Credentials in Demand • Assess Your Career • Increase Your Marketability • Tomorrow’s BC Professional • Your Fair Market Value • Ensure Your Marketability

4. Technology Driven 1970’s – 1998 “Disaster Recovery” Data Processing/ Data Center focus Technology lead to a DR career Lack of a focused BC/DR career path Business Driven 1998 – Current “Enterprise Contingency Planning” Risk Management/ Enterprise focus Multiple careers lead to a BC career An evolving, upward BC career path Career Progression

5. Profiling Current BC Professionals • Job Title • Specialty Focus • Industry • Working Experience • Field Experience • IT Expertise • Education • Business Competencies in BC • Technical Competencies in DR • Primary Career prior to BC/DR

6. Profiling Current BC Professionals • 32% of BCP Personnel are Planners, Coordinators, Administrators, 32% are Managers, AVPs and Project Managers, 18% are VP/Directors, 5% are Global Managers and 1% Chief Officers. • 40% BC, 21% DR & 5% each Crisis Mgmt, Emergency Mgmt, & Project Mgmt. • 25% in Financial industry, 14% Consulting, 11% Insurance. • 38% - 21-30 yrs Working Experience. • 41% - 4-10 yrs Field Experience. • 64% - IT Expertise of 5-8 (scale of 1-10 with 10 being the highest) • 45% - Bachelor Degree & 26% Master Degree

7. ~ Skills from most experienced to least experienced Business Competencies in BC • BC/DR plan Test & Exercise • Maintenance of BC/DR Program • Implementation of BC/DR Program • Development of BC/DR Program • Evaluate BC/DR Program • Interaction with other fields • Rolling out a Corporate BC/DR Program • BIA/ Risk Assessment • Recommending Appropriate BC/DR Program • Developing a Training Program • Selling to Executives on BC/DR Importance • Gap Analysis • Developing Business Case Scenarios

8. Technical Competencies in BC ~ Skills from most experienced to least experienced • Offsite Recovery • Data Center Recovery • Systems Recovery • Data Center Reviews • Platform/ Application Recovery • High Availability • Network Recovery • Storage • Database Recovery • ERP Recovery

9. Primary Career Prior to BC • 32% Information Technology • (22% from IT-Systems) • 8% Project Management • 8% Operations • 8% Management • 5% Business Analyst • 2% Risk Management • 3% Information Security • 2% each Audit & Health & Safety

10. BC Career Path Use: Continuity, Assurance, Enterprise & Readiness Avoid: Recovery & Disaster

11. Credentials in Demand • Certification • Advanced Education • Expertise in both Business & Technology • Global BC Experience • Wide Array of Tangent Skills • Strong Soft Skills

12. Soft Skills • Polished Presentation Skills • Proven Project Management • Training Expertise • Engage All Levels • Develop Business Case Scenarios • Understand a Culture Fit • True Passion

13. Value of Professional Certifications • Most Recognized • Benefits • For You • For Your Company • Dual Certifications • What Makes Sense For You? • Current Certification Trends • Increase in CBCP • Wide Array of Multiple Certifications

14. Assess Your Career • Career Planning • Where do you want to be in 5 & 10 years? • Evaluate Current Credentials/ Competencies • Evaluate Current Opportunity. • Employer, Boss, Co-workers, & Responsibilities • Conduct a SWOT • Be Strategic & Create Opportunities

15. Increase Your Marketability • Brand yourself. • Become certified or dual certified. • Earn a bachelor or masters degree. • Take advantage of other training/educational opportunities. • Improve your presentation skills. • Sharpen your business or technology knowledge. • Expand your expertise in tangent fields. • Become an expert/ leader in the field.

16. Tomorrow’s BC Professional • Increased Visibility • Continue to Incorporate Enterprise Planning • Focused and Elevating Career Path • Continued Global Awareness

17. Your Fair Market Value?

18. What is Your Fair Value? $ Years of Field & Work Experience $ Job Title & Reporting Structure $ Certification $ Degreed $ IT Expertise $ Geography $ Industry Specialty $ Previous Career $ Competency Knowledge $ Travel $ Work History $ Program Management $ Leadership Capabilities $ Staff Management $ Intangible Skills – Soft Skills, Strategic Planning & Execution

19. Ensure Your Marketability • Develop your brand and guard it. • Continuously assess your career path. • Seek out ways to sharpen your skills. • Always be networking with your peers. • Create a positive impact for your company. • Be a leader or a contributor your colleagues want to work for or with.

20. Questions Cheyene Haase BC Management, Inc. (949) 250-8172 X 204 chaase@bcmanagement.com