New Digital Service to Support Public Sector

Embargoed: 0700hrs 21 December 2015

PENNA CONSULTING PLC

("Penna" or the "Company)

Launch of New Digital Service to Support Public Sector Clients

Penna Consulting Plc (PNA: AIM), the international human resources consulting group, is pleased to announce the launch of Working Futures, a new digital service from the Company's Career Services business. This innovative service has been developed by Penna's in-house digital team specifically to support public sector clients as they enter a period of unprecedented departmental restructuring. Through Working Futures, Penna's Career Services business will be able to access a substantial customer base in the public sector which would not have traditionally been able to benefit from such comprehensive levels of career transition support.

Working Futures will enable public sector organisations to provide impactful and targeted support to staff in order to create a structured and coordinated path back to employment. Working Futures is designed to provide practical advice and guidance online from experienced coaches on a range of matters including optimisation of CVs, skill development, personal marketing, interview preparation, salary negotiation and guidance on alternative careers.

Gary Browning, Chief Executive of Penna commented:

"Designed by Penna and tailored specifically to meet the needs of the public sector, Working Futures opens up a substantial and important new customer base for Penna Career Services. We are already the UK's largest provider of career advisory services for the private sector and we aim to extend that position into the public sector, in which we already enjoy strong relationships in our recruitment business.

"Traditionally public sector organisations have not been large consumers of career transition services - principally due to cost. That is changing and we are seeing a growing number of organisations wanting to provide support to their people going through transition in a format that is affordable for the public sector.

 "Development and supply of digital services is a key component of Penna's growth strategy and we are proud to be delivering solutions through a hybrid of traditional and online systems in every Penna division, providing a growing stream of royalty income from digital and other services."

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About Penna Consulting plc

Penna is a global people management business. We work with over 2,000 organisations in more than 70 countries including 70 of the FTSE 100 and some of the highest profile public sector bodies.

Our vision is to make every organisation great through the performance of their people. We believe that for any organisation to achieve greatness they must be able to successfully attract, develop and transition individuals.

As the only provider able to offer proven solutions across the entire employee lifecycle from attraction to transition, we are uniquely positioned to help organisations successfully address whatever talent opportunities and challenges they may be facing.

This unique breadth of expertise enables us to offer integrated, innovative, tailored solutions that have a measurable impact on business performance.