Candidates Take the Reins: The Recruitment Strategy Shift
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Candidates Take the Reins: The Recruitment Strategy Shift

There’s no question that we are currently facing a historically challenging hiring market. No one could have predicted that a global pandemic would expedite such a shift – but here we are, faced with lower labor participation rates, earlier retirements, and higher demands for compensation and workplace flexibility. It’s a culmination of factors, and many…

FGP Receives Top 100 recognition by Forbes Magazine for the Fourth Consecutive Year

FGP Receives Top 100 recognition by Forbes Magazine for the Fourth Consecutive Year

FGP has been recognized by Forbes Magazine as one of the Best Recruitment Firms for the fourth consecutive year, ranking in the Top 100 in both the Executive Search and Professional Services categories. John Uprichard, CEO commented ‘This is great achievement for our team and reflects our continued commitment to excellence. We are grateful for…

Job Search Networking: The Power of Social Media

Job Search Networking: The Power of Social Media

Making personal connections by phone and face-to-face remains one of best ways to get hired but considering workforce changes due to COVID-19 and huge growth in social media, online communications are effective tools for professional networking that can lead to a great job. Online research and networking via social platforms—especially LinkedIn—will get you so far….

Great Managers Matter: The Evolution of Google’s Project Oxygen
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Great Managers Matter: The Evolution of Google’s Project Oxygen

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Back in 2008, an internal team of researchers launched Project Oxygen – in an effort to determine what makes a manager great at Google. From this research, eight behaviors were identified that were common among their highest performing managers, then incorporated into their manager development programs. By talking about these eight behaviors internally they saw an improvement…

Adaptability in the Workplace: Choosing Growth in the Face of Change

Adaptability in the Workplace: Choosing Growth in the Face of Change

If COVID-19 has taught us anything, it is that things can change rapidly and very unexpectedly. These changes occur all around us and in many aspects- both personally and professionally. Adaptation to these new circumstantial changes is driven largely by our mindset. In choosing our mindset, we determine our lens that sets the tone of…

The FGP Story

The FGP Story

Great. Growth. Gratitude. At FGP, we call these our 3 G’s, and they are the lens through which we operate daily. Our team is grounded in gratitude with a goal to find great people to build, and grow, great companies. Our mission starts with us. In 1982, we started out as an executive search firm…

The Transition from Interviewer to Interviewee

The Transition from Interviewer to Interviewee

The business world has taken quite a hit over these past few months and as a result, many people have experienced major shifts in their professional lives – position scope alterations, sudden lack of security, job loss. These types of changes have shaken lives and families everywhere and many professionals have found themselves thrown into…