Friday, February 23, 2007

LexisNexis- It's How you Know


When people search for a dynamic career

They find it here!


LexisNexis employees and customers are among the brightest and most interesting people you'll ever meet.
We work in surroundings that fit the type work we do. Employees based at one of our offices enjoy amenities that serve to eliminate unwanted distractions, provide places to exchange information, and allow us to concentrate on our work. Our resources are vast, with the latest in computer and communications technology.
At LexisNexis we have regional offices around the world. Additionally, field based employees may work from well-equipped home offices or from strategically located business centers. This allows for more focus on customer needs and less on unproductive commuting time.

It’s How You Know… Our Presence

Today, many companies talk about work/life balance. It’s one thing to express a commitment, another to act on it. At Lexis Nexis, everything about our culture is aimed at providing employees with a vibrant professional experience and personal fulfillment. We’re dynamic, creative, performance driven and customer focused.

Our energy comes from:

Belief in the value of employees
Passion for winning
Significant, interesting projects
Career development opportunities
Flexible work arrangements
Involvement in communities

People who are bold thinkers develop and grow here. They impact our success. They find career opportunities with choices – both traditional and non-traditional. They share information and achievements with other bright professionals. They find more enjoyment from work and more time for life.

With every career – fulfillment!
LexisNexis is committed to increasing the value of its most important asset, its people, through Corporate Training and Development a variety of training and development opportunities. From formal, instructor-led, web-based and computer-based instruction to less formal networks, exercises, and resources, LexisNexis ensures that diverse skill needs are met for both current job responsibilities as well as to prepare employees for future career opportunities.
Here are some of the areas of development:
· Team Development - Critical skills needed to drive teams to a higher level of performance and results.
· Personal Skills - A wide variety of foundation skills needed for success on the job.
· Customer Support - Skills and orientation needed to successfully service and satisfy external and internal customers and clients, consistently exceeding expectations.
· Sales Training - A wide array of skills needed to successfully expand our business and develop long-term relationships with our clients.
· Technology Training - Technical skills and knowledge to build and support LexisNexis platforms and products; end-user training for desktop applications.
· Understanding the Business - Knowledge of our business to support excellent job performance.
· Career Management - Tools and Awareness to align business strategies with individual aspirations and goals.
· Project Management - Skills needed to plan, manage, lead, launch, and measure successful projects.
· Innovation - Skills and knowledge needed to use the methodologies, tools, and innovative thinking needed to maximize the performance of the business.
· Leadership - Building a pipeline of great leaders for the 21st century.



Cares

It’s how we grow!

We work together to support cultural, educational and human service programs nationwide or in your area by becoming a part of the LexisNexis Cares Program. Together we make a difference!

· The LexisNexis Cares Volunteer Program provides each employee one day per year to help a non-profit organization in our community.
· The LexisNexis Shares program will match, on a dollar for dollar basis, cumulative employee donations of $25.00 up to a maximum of $250 per employee per calendar year.
· The LexisNexis Employee Foundation allows employees to pool their donations without administrative costs. The employee foundation operates virtually without overhead, so support goes directly to the agencies who need it most.


It’s how you know. We are your “Employer of Choice.”

The future of Reed Elsevier will fundamentally be determined by the quality of our people and organization. While the company has enormous strengths through its brands, content and leadership positions, long term Reed Elsevier will ultimately be only as good as its people. We strongly believe this.












About LexisNexis
Premium Branded Information, Products, and Portals

The LexisNexis Group provides information to legal, corporate, government and academic markets, and publishes legal, tax and regulatory information, via online, hardcopy print and CD-ROM formats. The global legal and information division of Reed Elsevier plc, LexisNexis Group combines dozens of brands that are leaders within their respective markets, including Butterworths, Les Editions du Juris-Classeur and Martindale-Hubbell. LexisNexis Group is the global legal publishing arm of Reed Elsevier, the Anglo-Dutch world-leading publisher and information provider. Sister business units provide global science, business-to-business and education publishing services for their markets.
LexisNexis Group unites strong brands, pioneering technologies and premium information for customers in the legal, corporate, government and academic markets. More than two-thirds of its revenue is generated in the North American marketplace. At the same time the Group is the market leader in the United Kingdom and the British Commonwealth and major publisher in the legal, tax and regulatory markets in Continental Europe and Latin America.
The Group is divided into four main operating units: North American Legal markets, U.S. Corporate and Federal markets, Martindale-Hubbell and the International Division. The division which comprises the Group's publishing assets, is regionally organized, in Europe, Asia-pacific and Latin America. These include the market-leading Butterworths companies in the UK and British Commonwealth, Les Editions du Juris Classeur in France, and many other companies that are household names in their markets.
The Group's products are available via the World Wide Web, dial-up online, CD-ROM and hardcopy print. The thousands of titles available via LexisNexis Group products offer access to some of the most recognized and authoritative sources in the world today.
A trusted source, LexisNexis Group offers targeted Web information solutions that can be integrated into customer business processes and systems. LexisNexis Web and dial-up online solutions combine searchable access to more than three billion documents from thousands of sources with leading edge systems and tools for managing this content. LexisNexis delivers a high quality resource with which to build legal research and knowledge-management solutions for the entire enterprise.
The Lexis® service, the first commercial, full-text legal information service, began in 1973 to help legal practitioners research the law more efficiently. The companion Nexis® news and business information service launched in 1979 to richen research with recent and archival news and financial information. Since that time, the service has grown to become the largest news and business online information service, including comprehensive company, country, financial, demographic, market research and industry reports. Providing access to thousands of worldwide newspapers, magazines, trade journals, industry newsletters, tax and accounting information, financial data, public records, legislative records, data on companies and their executives makes the LexisNexis™ service an indispensable tool for gathering information and providing accurate answers.


History of LexisNexis
LexisNexis was founded as the Data Corporation in 1966 and was purchased by The Mead Corporation in 1968. Reed Elsevier plc, which acquired LexisNexis in late 1994, is a leading world-wide publisher and information provider.
LexisNexis employs 12,000 people worldwide. Serving customers in more than 60 countries, sales representatives are located in 50 U.S. cities and around the world, including Amsterdam, London, Frankfurt, Paris, Singapore, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Sydney and Toronto. The company’s mission is to be the preferred provider of decision support information and services to professionals in legal, business and government markets. LexisNexis is comprised of companies operating within the North American Legal Markets group and the Corporate and Federal Markets group.

Why Work at LexisNexis
Your career is a big part of your life. You invest your time and talent every day, and you need to choose wisely when deciding where to make this investment. Choose a company that is a leader in a leading-edge industry. Choose a company that can offer opportunities to enrich your mind and expand your horizons. Choose a company that can offer you opportunities around the corner and around the globe. We invite you to consider LexisNexis. As a leader in the information services industry, we offer a world of opportunity for you to develop, grow and create the kind of career that will provide satisfaction and stimulation. Check out our technology, our growth and our people. Especially the people. Many have stood where you stand now; on the threshold of something great. Perhaps you'd like to join them?
To learn more about LexisNexis and to join our team, please visit our website at http://www.lexisnexis.com/.