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Best Firm focus Leaders of employee-friendly firms talk about how being a Best Firm affects marketing, recruiting, and team building. P R O F I L E
T he Zweig Letter: How has being a Best Firm helped you recruit and retain top talent in a tight labor market? Matt Hoying, president, Choice One Engineering (Sidney, OH), a 37-person civil engineering firm: Being named a Zweig Group Best Firm has played a small part in attracting new employees. Our new employees have told us, though it wasn’t a deciding factor in coming to work for Choice One, it was a reason they researched the company more and ultimately reassured them when making their final decision. TZL: How has being a Best Firm helped you in terms of marketing your firm? Ted Fitzemeyer, president, Fitzemeyer & Tocci (Woburn, MA), a 40-person engineering consulting firm: In 2014, we set a strategic objective to have a stellar reputation in the engineering communi- ty as the workplace of choice. Being a Zweig Group Best Firm impar- tially confirms our commitment to our strategic plan, our staff, and ultimately to our clients. Receiving this prestigious award illustrates the commitment we have to our employees and aids in attracting top- notch talent, which is key to our continued success. TZL: In the process of becoming a Best Firm, what did you learn about building a great team? Mike Mulhern and Joe Kulp, founders, Mulhern+Kulp (Ambler, PA), a 60-person structural engineering firm: To us, being voted Best Structural Engineering Firm to Work For is an affirmation of one of our founding principles – that our people, both collectively and in- dividually, are our most valuable asset. We share a genuine concern for their personal well-being, career satisfaction, and overall success – achieved in a positive, open, friendly and encouraging environment. We are motivated every day to grow our business so that we can pro- vide new challenges and career advancement opportunities for every one of our employees. TZL: How has being a Best Firm helped you in terms of marketing your firm? Chris Huckabee, CEO, Huckabee (Fort Worth, TX), a 218-person ar- chitecture firm: We place great emphasis on excellence in everything we do, and this means investing in our team, our offices, and our cul- ture. Where we are today, and the culture we’ve nurtured, is the result of 50 years of practice and focus in the educational market. We love to talk about our clients and our employees and the great work they are doing for Texas communities. Being named Best Firms to Work For gives us one more opportunity to spread the word about the peo- ple who make our workplace great. The award is also a message to our clients that we invest in our team because we are invested in you; at Huckabee, we are all-in to education, and this means recruiting people who are going to be all-in with us and with them.
ARCHITECTURE 1. Huckabee 2. Mackey Mitchell Architects 3. Hastings Architecture Associates 4. McMillan Pazdan Smith 5. LRK Inc. CIVIL ENGINEERING 1. Choice One 2. Bowers and Kubota 3. Criado & Associates, Inc 4. Delta Airport Consultants, Inc. 5. Provost & Pritchard Consulting Group ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING 1. Ecosystem Planning & Restoration 2. EHS Support 3. Comprehensive Envrironmental 4. Rincon Consultants, Inc 5. Alta Environmental GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING 1. Comprehensive Envrionmental 2. GeoDesign, Inc 3. R&M Consultants, Inc. 4. Draper Aden Associates 5. Larson Design Group LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE AND PLANNING 1. Harper Houf Peterson Righellis 2. SCJ Alliance 3. Hitchcock Design Group 4. Wade Trim 5. Chen Moore and Associates MULTI-DISCIPLINE 1. Fitzemeyer & Tocci 2. Garver 3. Bowers and Kubota 4. MBP 5. Tower Pinkster STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING
1. Mulhern & Kulp 2. Barrish Pelham 3. SidePlate 4. BASE 5. Finley Engineering Group
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THE ZWEIG LETTER August 21, 2017, ISSUE 1213
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