August Luncheon - Career Advancement... Move Up, Over or Out!

Career Advancement – Move your Career Up, Over, or Out!

Want to move ahead in your career? Looking for opportunities to change jobs or roles? Join Central SC Chapter of the AFP for a lunch program to learn tips and tricks to looking, preparing and landing the next role. Whether you want to advance within your own organization or look at opportunities outside your company and maybe in a different field, Steve Hall with Find Great People will share his thoughts and tips to help us navigate career advancement.

A moderator will lead the discussion posing questions and fielding questions from the audience to get answers on topics including:

• What employers are looking for?
• How do fundraising skills translate into other roles?
• Getting a promotion, and positioning yourself for a step up
• To stay or go – when you can make a change where you are, and when it’s time to move out
• Creating a winning resume and cover letter
• Interviews – dos and don’ts
• Professional development and networking

Come prepared with your own questions and get the answers you’ve been looking for.

About our speaker - 

As Vice President of Business Development, Steve Hall oversees the growth of Find Great People's Executive Search, Professional Staffing, Human Resources Consulting and Outplacement/Career Transition divisions.  

A 30-year veteran of FGP, the executive search and staffing industries and a Certified Personnel Consultant (CPC), Steve is a frequent speaker on recruitment and organizational leadership and as the longest tenured member of the firm, Steve has played a vital role in the management of what has become one of the fastest growing recruitment and staffing firms in South Carolina. He was instrumental in FGP’s initial launch in technology recruiting back in 1990 and for a period of five years he managed FGP’s Executive Search division growing revenues 500%. Prior to serving as the Director of FGP’s Executive Search Division, Steve was a Sr. Executive Search Consultant for the first 16 years of his career running his own search desk at FGP. At times, Steve is still actively leading executive level searches on behalf of select FGP clients.

In addition to his responsibilities within FGP, Steve was appointed as a Board of Trustees for the SC Independent Colleges and Universities, as a Board of Directors for the Greenville Technical College Foundation and to the South Carolina Leadership Council for the NFIB in 2018 as well as in 2016 being appointed by Governor Haley to the PalmettoPride Board of Commissioners as well as the Advisory Council for SC Consumer Affairs. He has been an active member of the Upstate SC Alliance, Central SC Alliance, Spartanburg Economic Futures Group and the Greenwood Partnership Alliance, is past Chairman of the GHS Patewood Campus Business Advisory Council, past Chairman of Youth Leadership Greenville under the Greenville Chamber of Commerce, former Commissioner of the Greenville County Human Relations Commission, and current board member for Water of Life (a faith based non-profit ministry providing access to clean water in impoverished countries). Steve is also a graduate of Leadership South Carolina, Leadership Greenville, and Leadership Greer. Steve completed his BS degree in Marketing Management from Bob Jones University in 1989.