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Staffing and RecruitingIllinois, United States11-50 Employees
Furst Group is a mid-sized staffing and recruiting firm based in Rockford, Illinois, focusing on retained executive search and integrated talent management. It serves clients in healthcare and insurance, helping them evaluate talent, leadership, and culture to align leadership with strategic initiatives. The firm has a long-standing presence in the industry, now in its fourth decade, and has earned recognition from Modern Healthcare and Forbes for its executive search work. Its talent and leadership solutions cover leadership development, executive team performance, organizational and cultural assessment, and succession planning. The firm emphasizes identifying, assessing, and developing leaders to implement strategic vision while mitigating leadership risk as teams evolve. In February 2023, Furst Group named Paul Esselman as vice president, reflecting ongoing expansion of its leadership team.