This, in a nutshell, is our value proposition to all our employees and prospects.

CRISIL is a professionally managed company, with best global practices for corporate governance. Our Board of Directors comprise distinguished, independent professional of proven competence and integrity.

We have an unrivalled skill base spanning our business areas. Functional skills include financial modelling, risk modelling, credit and equity research, sector-specific research, policy and transaction advisory, real time news coverage and reporting, and database management, among others.

A strong contextual understanding of business and markets underpins the application of these skills.

Strong IT and publication capabilities enable effective delivery of our offerings. CRISIL encourages a value-driven and performance-based culture, which attracts the best talent from the marketplace.

CRISIL has instituted various innovative practices to augment the talent pipeline and to increase employee engagement levels in the organisation. CRISIL hired 754 employees in 2008, as against 741 in 2007. On a consolidated basis, the total headcount in the CRISIL group increased to 1956 as on December 31, 2008, from 1750 a year earlier.