About the Employment Research Institute
Focused on the Job Seeker
The Employment Research Institute offers job opening research and reporting, and technological information.
The Employment Research Institute serves the needs of job seekers from its Pasadena, California headquarters and branch offices throughout the United States and Asia.
- Millions of candidates worldwide have found their dream jobs through the Employment Research Institute.
- The ERI has started an average of one company each month since 2000, virtually all of which have attained success in their respective industries.
- The Employment Research Institute employs thousands of people in the world’s smallest and largest economies.
Core Values
Core Value 1: We must obtain jobs for our clients.
Core Observation: The ERI’s own positions only exist to find jobs for its client candidates.
“At Employment Research Institute we are inspired by this quote because we are in the business of getting people jobs. We measure our own success by how closely we come to achieving this goal.”
Work is the most important component of life—it takes the most of our time and determines the quality of our existence. Helping others to work is among the most important tasks there is. We better the lives and futures of others.
—Harrison Barnes
We are in the business of preserving and improving human life. All of our actions must be measured by the success in achieving this goal.
—Merck & Company, Internal Management Guide
“At Employment Research Institute we are inspired by this quote because we are always cognizant that the work we do is for the job seeker. The more we have stayed true to this vision the better we have done.”
I want to ... express the principles upon which we in company have endeavored to live up to ... Here is how it sums up: We try to remember that medicine is for the patient. We try never to forget that medicine is for the people. It is not for the profits. The profits follow, and if we have remembered that, they have never failed to appear. The better we have remembered it, the larger they have been.
—George Merck II
Core Value 2: We must lead the industry of finding positions on employer websites.
Core Observation: In order to dominate the market, we must be the best branded business in our field.
“At Employment Research Institute we are inspired by this quote because we believe in what we do and in survival. In order to prosper and carry our message forward, we need to be the best in our field.”
To my imagination it is far more satisfactory to look at [well-adapted] specifies not as specially endowed or created instincts, but as small consequences of one general law leading to the advancement of all organic beings—namely, multiply, vary, let the strongest live and the weakest die.
—Charles Darwin, Origin of Species
Core Value 3: We consistently redefine the rules of the game.
Core Observation: Businesses with an upward trajectory attract customers, while those with a negative trajectory repel them.
“At Employment Research Institute we are inspired by this quote because we believe that we must constantly advance and get better and better at what we do.”
You can't just keep doing what works one time, because everything around you is always changing. To succeed, you have to stay out in front of that change.
—Sam Walton
Core Value 4: We consistently employ technology to fuel innovation
The Employment Research Institute has recognized the value of technology since its inception, and has made continuous technology investments from that time through the present day.
The ERI’s technology and database comprise its greatest assets, and form the foundation for the company’s continued growth as the firm seeks new products and ideas in which to invest.
Core Value 5: We must always function as a team.
The Employment Research Institute is a team of people with the common goal of connecting openings with job seekers, and each team member works to the best of his or her abilities towards that goal.
