The Home Depot Work Values

Daily Duties at The Home Depot:

• Implemented “Notice & Access” for a cost savings of $1 million annually since 2008. o Member of the NIRI Notice & Access Working Group on Implementing Notice & Access. o NIRI speaker for Notice & Access webcast with Vice President of Investor Relations, Sara Lee. • Project manager for planning and implementation of the 2010 Annual Meeting of Shareholders. o Created presentation for Frank Blake, CEO. • Part of the negotiation and solely responsible for implementation of an agreement for removing a shareholder proposal from the 2008 Proxy. • Project manager for the 2008, 2009 and 2010 Annual Report, online and print versions, Letter to Shareholders and Proxy, Proxy Card and Notice production. • Participated in (3) Investor and Analyst Conferences. o Created presentations and wrote scripts for Paul Raines, EVP U.S. Stores; Marvin Ellison, EVP U.S. Stores and Matt Carey, CIO. o Managed Q&A (3) and slide production (3) for Carol Tomé, CFO and EVP Corporate Services. • Managed and edited quarterly earnings releases (13), Q&A documents, and translation process. o Wrote quarterly earnings script for Paul Raines, EVP U.S. Stores. • Managed and edited (13) quarterly dividend releases. • Role in Investor Relations driven events (~120/year): o Created multiple presentations for HD senior leaders for sell-side analyst hosted retail investor conferences. o Assisted in the leading and planning of multiple store tours and an RDC tour for sell-side analysts. o Created Targeting Reports for planning investor meetings, retail outings and investor lunches/dinners. • Regular communication with sell-side (31), buy-side analysts and investors (1,305), and retail shareholders (1.4 million).

What they like about The Home Depot:

You give high priority to hiring firms with prestige. Market reputation and prestige of a firm may be determined through on-line research, and conversations with individuals working in your target industry. Note that firms "in the public eye" receive a great deal more critical publicity and attention than those operating with more anonymity. So as you assess your employment opportunities, be sure to seek out the positive aspects of the firm's reputation in addition to noting negative publicity the company may have received.

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Marketing, Public Relations, Finance, Adobe, Excel, Power Point

Skills

These are some of the questions we asked our climbers about their experiences with The Home Depot: