The activity of recruitment, selection and placement of personnel, in particular through direct approach, definition and evaluation of skills, aptitudes and motivations, advice and assistance in the search and selection of candidates or career development, external retraining (outplacement), individual or collective reclassification of personnel; all services to companies, advice and assistance in the field of human resources; the participation of the company, by all means, directly or indirectly, in all operations that can be related to its purpose by way of creation of new companies, contribution, subscription or purchase of securities or social rights, merger or otherwise, creation, acquisition, rental, lease-management of all business assets or establishments; the acquisition, exploitation or disposal of all processes and patents related to these activities; and generally, all industrial, commercial, financial, civil, movable or immovable operations that can be directly or indirectly related to the company's purpose or to any similar or related purpose, excluding any real estate operation in Switzerland that does not have an exclusively commercial purpose. The company may also grant loans or other financing to third parties, including companies in which it holds direct or indirect participations or its direct or indirect associates or companies in which its direct or indirect associates hold a direct or indirect participation, conclude cash pooling agreements with these third parties and provide any type of security to guarantee their obligations, in each case with or without compensation and even if these legal transactions are in the exclusive interest of the third parties. The company may create branches and subsidiaries in Switzerland and abroad.