Quotes About Hiring

When screening engineers from other companies, its smart to value engineers from great companies more than those from mediocre companies.

The owner's job is to hire the general manager. The general manager's job is to run the hockey team.

Millennials in particular get a lot of flack for their supposed entitlement and narcissism, but these evaluations have never matched my experience with hiring young people at Warby Parker.

If you hire only those people you understand, the company will never get people better than you are. Always remember that you often find outstanding people among those you don't particularly like.

Hiring a lobbyist aligned with a powerful politician is more important than hiring a lobbyist with a certain expertise or experience. Hiring a former staff member or family member is better still.

Seibel: When you're hiring programmers, how do you recognize the good ones? Crockford: The approach I've taken now is to do a code reading. I invite the candidate to bring in a piece of code he's really proud of and walk us through it.

Hire passionate employees.

I found that the artist market was expanding in comics. Marvel was going from something like eight books a month to somewhere in the 20s. As a result of this expansion, Marvel, in particular, was hiring anyone who could hold a pencil. That's how I got my first job there.

First-rate people hire first-rate people; second-rate people hire third-rate people.

It is much easier to hire your 20th person than your 1st.

You need to make sure you hire people who are capable of being strong team players. Team members should fit the company's culture, be committed to the team, and be capable of being genuinely vulnerable and selfless.

On balance, I am a supporter of the minimum wage going up. We've got to be very careful what we wish for because some employers - and there could be a lot of them - will be scared away from hiring new people or creating incremental hours for part-time people as a result of that wage going up.

If you hire good people, give them good jobs, and pay them good wages, generally something good is going to happen.

I hire a lot of waiters, waitresses. Someone who's successful has a background that's not predictable.

The pastor of a parish will typically have no education in the chant or in music, and he will hire the first music director who walks through the door.

If I'm in the position where I get to hire someone, where I get to decide who joins me on tour, then I am mindful about that, and I try to suggest women that I know who I think deserve more exposure.

In looking for someone to hire, you look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence, and energy. But the most important is integrity, because if they don't have that, the other two qualities, intelligence and energy, are going to kill you.

Somebody once said that in looking for people to hire, you look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence, and energy. And if you don't have the first, the other two will kill you. You think about it; it's true. If you hire somebody without [integrity], you really want them to be dumb and lazy.

Firmly resolve that you will hire the candidate whose final score is the highest, even if there is another one whom you like better

in 2015 Ernst & Young professional services in the United Kingdom removed degree classification from its hiring criteria, citing a lack of evidence that university success correlated with job performance.

The only way a company can grow, stay true to its soul, and remain consistently successful is to attract, hire, and keep great people.

Passion is so key in leading and creating excellence that I will hire passion over education and talent every time.

The moment you feel the need to tightly manage someone, you've made a hiring mistake.

Hiring quotas reduce efficiency.