(Atlanta, GA) July 9, 2009 - April Nagel, CEO of
firstPRO Staffing and Executive Search announced today that the company has been certified as a Woman Business Enterprise (WBE) by The National Women Business Owners Corporation (
NWBOC). This is the second national certification awarded to firstPRO. firstPRO was also certified in August 2008 by The Women’s Business Enterprise National Council.
"When I established firstPRO in 1986, our goal was to provide the very best talent in the marketplace," Nagel says. “Our NWBOC certification will give our company added value as our clients are actively engaging business partners with the NWBOC certification.”
Created in 1995, NWBOC was established to increase competition for corporate and government contracts through implementation of a national certification program for women business owners. The development of the national Woman Business Enterprise (WBE) certification program, sponsored by IBM, involved cooperation and input from over 700 public and private sector individuals. The result was the creation of the WBE Application, the process and the NWBOC Standards and Procedures. For more information visit www.nwboc.org.