Your HR Executive Office in OPAL Secretariat has carefully looked at OPAL’s Vision and the strategies that are needed to reach the envisaged goals. HR is about human asset in a company; how that asset is acquired and how it is utilized by the company. Only by using the very best employment practices could a company truly say “our most important asset is our people”. The HR of OPAL has worked to assist member companies by producing certain tools, firstly to identify and then to emphasise best employment practices. The OPAL Compliance Verification Certificate, CVC, is one such product. It encompasses best business practices for human resource working environment. It should not be considered a tool for obtaining contracts but rather, contracts are won because a company uses best employment practices that are in the CVC.