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Where we share industry insights and stories about growth, gratitude, and great people.
Championing Contract Assignments: A Great Foot in the Door
For some jobseekers, the idea of working “contract” or on temporary assignments may not be an appealing proposition. You may be concerned about the longevity of contract roles, or that including contract assignments on your…
Acing Your Virtual Interview: Top Tips for Candidates
Everyone has had to adjust and find their ‘new-normal’ with the impact of COVID-19. Zoom and Teams meetings have become a regular thing, “mute your microphone” is the most spoken phrase in 2020. We’ve all…
Recruiting Manufacturing Engineers in a Competitive Market
While recruiting the right candidate for the right role can be difficult, hiring managers often find that filling manufacturing and engineering positions can be a particularly daunting proposition.
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…
How to Reach Passive Candidates – The Strategic Solution
Today’s marketplace requires more strategic and specialized recruiting efforts to gain attention of passive candidates. Get firsthand insight from a global HR director on how FGP responds.
Great Managers Matter: The Evolution of Google’s Project Oxygen
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…
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…
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…
The “Perfect 10” Candidate – How we find great people
When it comes to our staffing division, our primary focus is to find, select, and deliver the right candidate to our clients on a temporary, temp-to-hire, or direct hire basis. Whether the demand for our…
