Best 48 quotes in «hiring quotes» category

Dating and hiring have a lot in common.

Cohler advertised for summer interns, then sometimes told promising applicants when they came for an interview that Thefacebook was only hiring full-timers.

He always said that when you are hiring someone, look at the quality of the person. It is very easy to find a good technician; it's much harder and more important to have a good person. ~ Robert Drouhin repeating what his father Maurice told him

Hire people who are smarter than you are—whose talents surpass yours—and give them opportunities for growth. It's the smart thing to do and it is a sign of high personal humility.

If we agree that the education, employment and retirement continuum is no longer a linear “cradle to grave” construct, then several tools for managing this reality are increasingly proving redundant. Job descriptions used for hiring are one such example. Hiring managers often write these as a reflection of their own experiences, ignoring the fact that we are entering an era where the emphasis should be less on ready competence and more on transferable skills.

Favoring specialization over intelligence is exactly wrong, especially in high tech. The world is changing so fast across every industry and endeavor that it's a given the role for which you're hiring is going to change. Yesterday's widget will be obsolete tomorrow, and hiring a specialist in such a dynamic environment can backfire. A specialist brings an inherent bias to solving problems that spawns from the very expertise that is his putative advantage, and may be threatened by a new type of solution that requires new expertise. A smart generalist doesn't have bias, so is free to survey the wide range of solutions and gravitate to the best one.

Further, when markers of race, gender, gender fluidity, sexual orientation, ethnicity, religion and other factors are the only criteria considered in hiring or admissions, students are cheated, as are those chosen to meet diversity measures on the basis of identity alone. Nothing is more essentialist or constraining than diversity understood strictly in terms of identity.

Hiring people with fresh ideas is the key to a company's future success.

Hiring should always be part of your long-term strategy, not a quick fix to an immediate problem.

Hiring the wrong people is the fastest way to undermine a sustainable business.

If someone is trying to sell you with only past credentials and older accolades without including present examples and up to date proof, you might be dealing with someone that is sharing expired information and does not have the up to date knowledge to help you.

I’m a firm believer that most people who do great things are doing them for the first time. Returning to my theory of hiring, I’d rather have someone all fired up to do something for the first time than someone who’s done it before and isn’t that excited to do it again. You rarely go wrong giving someone who is high potential the shot.

I really dislike the hiring managers that did not disclose the known toxicity of their hazardous workplaces to me.

If you can 'hire tough,' you can 'manage easy.

One competent go-getter is worth One Hundred incompetent do-nothings. - Kailin Gow, On Hiring a Winning Team

Recruiting should never be outsourced. Everyone at your company should be different in the same way.

Values beat experience when experience doesn't work hard.

To hire is to take people higher, not fire.

We Are hiring A Talent Not They People Who Have Great Qualification…

We work long hours at these shows, and no matter how funny someone's writing sample is, if they are too talkative or needy or angry to deal with in the middle of the night by the printer, steer clear.

When hiring, we look at a variety of factors, including education, experience, and skills. The biggest factor by far, though, is a candidate’s ability to fit in with our existing culture. Some might say this is why we seem to only hire the same type of people, but who knows?

A lot of labels are hiring a lot more accountants than people that know music.

As a business owner or manager, you know that hiring the wrong person is the most costly mistake you can make.

Supercomputer pioneer Seymour Cray used to deliberately hire for inexperience because it brought him people who "do not usually know what's supposed to be impossible.

We can never fall short when it comes to recruiting, hiring, maintaining and growing our workforce. It is the employees who make our organization’s success a reality.

You hire the best people you can possibly find. Then it's up to you to create an environment where great people decide to stay and invest their time.

You may be thinking that your company has a human resources person who will keep you out of trouble. This is a dangerous misconception. Whether your company has a massive Human Resources Department with hundreds of representatives or a small office with just a single representative, these HR reps are not your advocates. They work for the company, not for you.

Clary: "Aren't they supposed to be hiring someone else to train me full-time anyway?

Build into each budget the cost of hiring and don't lump yourself with capital investment.

I am going to cut taxes massively. I am going to cut business taxes massively. They're going to start hiring people.

Gas stations are considering hiring security guards. Why are they getting security guards? We're the ones getting robbed.

If you think that hiring professionals is expensive, try hiring amateurs

I go in to Warner Brothers to test and in the waiting area I saw Allison Janney sitting there, who I did not know but I was a big fan of. I said to myself, "Wait a second. These guys might know what they're doing if they're hiring her.

I’d rather interview 50 people and not hire anyone than hire the wrong person.

Hiring quotas reduce efficiency.

It's a success story here in Michigan. We have hiring going on. We have new industries going on.

I retired from acting the same time they stopped hiring me. But following my own thing of making these small indie movies has been the happiest I've ever been.

My company believes in hiring people based on merit.

Make hiring a top priority.

Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.

Rick Perry has now accused Mitt Romney of hiring illegal aliens to work on his hair.

There are hundreds of Canadian communities that have given more thought to hiring their rink manager than they have to electing their member of Parliament.

The entire business world has figured out how to make huge buckets of money without hiring us to work for them.

The Total Onboarding Program - An Integrated Approach To Recruiting, Hiring and Accelerating Talent.

When hiring, mix Harvard Nerds with Chicago Improvisers and stir.

When those pictures of Abu Ghraib came out, I thought, my gosh, this is like the tiger cages for prisoners in Vietnam all over again. Only we were actually doing it ourselves, we weren't hiring another government to do it.

We've imposed a hiring freeze on non-essential federal workers. We've imposed a temporary moratorium on new federal regulations.

When I’m hiring a cook for one of my restaurants, and I want to see what they can do, I usually ask them to make me an omelette.