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title: "Scaling Smart Through Values-aligned Talent for Hoopaugh Grading"
description: "How AG helped one of the Southeast’s most respected contractors scale with impact and stability."
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published: 2025-08-03
modified: 2026-10-25
publisher: Amundson Group
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# Scaling Smart Through Values-aligned Talent for Hoopaugh Grading

August 3, 2025

[Success Stories](https://amundsongroup.com/success-stories/)

**How AG helped one of the Southeast’s most respected contractors scale with impact and stability.**

### The Setup

**Hoopaugh Grading** is a major force in site development across the Carolinas. Known for doing things right, they were facing a good problem: rapid growth.

To support it, they needed people, not just warm bodies, but high-upside hires who could grow with the business and hold the culture together as things scaled.

### The Problem

Hoopaugh’s internal hiring model wasn’t delivering the caliber of people they needed. Candidates lacked the long-term upside, the cultural fit, or the loyalty to build something sustainable.

**So they brought in Amundson Group.**

**They needed to attract talent who wanted to stay, not just get paid.**

### The work

We worked directly with Hoopaugh’s President and COO to rebuild their hiring engine around alignment and velocity:

- **Benchmarked compensation** across key roles to stay competitive
- **Redesigned the hiring experience** from first contact to onboarding
- **Tightened speed-to-hire cycles** to 2-day submissions, 3-day interviews, and 5-day fills
- Focused sourcing on **values-first, growth-ready talent**, people the team could build around

**This wasn’t a volume play. This was a culture-first growth model.**

### The Results

- **23 hires across** foreman and PM Roles
- Back-to-back **Best Places to Work** recognition
- A recruiting model that helped Hoopaugh **double revenue**
- Strengthened team culture through a key phase of expansion

### Why it Worked

Because we didn’t chase speed alone, we built for long-term return.

Because we worked shoulder-to-shoulder with leadership, not in a silo.

Because we focused on people who wanted to build something that lasts.

### STILL BUILDING

AG remains a trusted partner to Hoopaugh Grading as they deepen their footprint and raise the standard for site development across the Southeast.

More from Amundson Group: [site development recruiting](https://amundsongroup.com/sectors/site-development-construction-recruitment/).

Written by Alex Mowbray

Founder and CEO of Amundson Group

[View full bio](https://amundsongroup.com/employees/alex-mowbray/)

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About Amundson Group: a Houston-headquartered construction recruiting firm placing superintendents, project managers, estimators, foremen and skilled trades with contractors across the United States in heavy civil, site development, paving, data center, rail, tunnels, wastewater and underground utilities. 1,200+ construction placements to date, a network of 90,000+ construction professionals, 250+ companies served, the first qualified resume in about 7 hours and a shortlist in 7 days. Veteran owned, founded in January 2020 by Alex Mowbray, Inc. 5000 honoree in 2024 and 2025, SIA Best Staffing Firms to Work For 2023 and 2024, rated 4.9 on Google. 1336 Brittmoore Rd, Houston, TX 77043. (832) 558-7982. https://amundsongroup.com

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