Quotes About Hiring

You don't hire for skills, you hire for attitude. You can always teach skills.

We recruit for attitude and train for skill.

Hiring a guy with more confirmed kills than college credits was a tough sell.

No employer is going to hire robustly until they know what the health care cost is going to be.

However you feel about Dimebag, this is one of the most influential metal guitar players of the '90s. I was just talking to someone that I am hiring to bring on the tour who said that, when he was at the funeral, that Eddie Van Halen came and put his striped guitar in the coffin. That's a pretty big deal.

Start-up teams are always in flux, so, like all start-ups, we're always talking to candidates for various key roles.

If you want to make big improvements in communication, my advice is - hire physicists, not communications people from normal companies and never believe what advertising companies tell you about 'data' unless you can independently verify it.

That's why, when West was asked during his team's playoff loss to San Antonio about the possibility of hiring Jackson, he said, curtly, "Fuck Phil Jackson." Yes, Fuck Phil Jackson.

Don't hire anyone you wouldn't want to run into in the hallway at three in the morning.

As entrepreneurs, we often get pressured into hiring an industry executive. While it's good to hire people with experience, it can also be a stumbling block because they think about the business the same way everyone else does.

Who's more likely to succeed - someone with high skill and no ambition, or no skill and high ambition? If you're an entrepreneur, you can hire as many skilled people for your business as you want.

For a startup to overcome obstacles and succeed, it must foster limitless thinking. By hiring students into their first career job, you get to set their framework for how a company functions and instill them with your values for your company's culture.

Elon Musk personally interviewed the first three thousand employees at SpaceX because he wanted to make sure the company was hiring the right people.4

Most of us have a bias toward well-spoken and articulate storytellers. But make sure you keep an awareness of this at the front of your mind, for it can cause you to hire glib but unsubstantial people and overlook rare creative talent. Do not overestimate the importance of the person's articulateness.

In retaining employees and keeping them engaged, we'll cover the five activities of great (vs. good) managers: • Help people play to their strengths. • Don't demotivate; dehassle. • Set clear expectations and give employees a clear line of sight. • Give recognition and show appreciation. • Hire fewer people, but pay them more (frontline employees, not top leaders!).

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

If you don't hire at least one or two people that are smarter than you are, then you're a terrible manager and I don't need you.

Always hire people who are better than you. Hiring dummies is shortsighted. You can't move up the ladder until everyone is comfortable with your replacement.

The cost of energy is directly related to the cost of hiring workers and running a business.

Follow these five decision steps when hiring someone: Understand the job, consider three to five people, study candidates performance records to find their strengths, talk to the candidates' colleagues about them, and once hired, explain the assignment to the new employee.

Hiring people is an art, not a science, and resumes can't tell you whether someone will fit into a company's culture.

Although self-reported endorsement of sexist attitudes didn't predict hiring bias, self-reported objectivity in decision making did.

For many years I have talked about building a Hire a Veteran culture in Canada in order that both public and private sector employers understand and value military training and experience in their hiring programs. For me, this work began long before I became a Member of Parliament.

We hire military veterans because they make great employees. They bring proven technical and leadership skills. They understand teamwork, and they're adaptable. Bottom line, hiring veterans is good for business.