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Quotes About Recruitment

It's critical that states improve how teachers are trained, recruited, evaluated, compensated, advanced, and retained.
~ Eli Broad
There's a whole pipeline for where people recruit current Hill staff from, and it's people who go through a kind of ideological training that's incorrect, I'd say, and so there's a lot of work to do, and Justice Democrats is trying to figure out where it fits.
~ Saikat Chakrabarti
A most highly multiplying trait in point of far-reaching influences is that of ability to discover and use strong men. This trait stands out impressively in Rothschild's 'Lincoln, Master of Men'.
~ John Mott
Everyone can see that we went for young, talented players under the age of 24 or free transfers where we didn't have to pay a fee for them.
~ David Wagner
Digital innovations have the potential to transform the recruitment industry, and the Adecco Group is taking the lead.
~ Alain Dehaze
In the World War, we used propaganda to make the boys accept conscription. They were made to feel ashamed if they didn't join the army.
~ Smedley D. Butler
Don't worry. You gave him the right answer." Actually, Michael was after something more important than the fate of his Briarcrest teammate. "I wanted to see what type of person he was," he said later. "If he's pulling scholarships that they'd promised kids, would you want to play for that kind of person? Be around that kind of person?" Coach O wasn't that kind of person, he decided; more interestingly, Coach
~ Michael Lewis
This was tricky. They had, right now, at home, boxes of letters addressed to Michael from college football coaches and boosters and just people who wanted to get to know the future star. They had a personal letter from Congressman Harold Ford Jr., who seemed to want to become Michael's friend, and a stack of letters from a football coach at the University of Alabama, who seemed prepared to offer his hand in marriage.
~ Michael Lewis
You invite a few players in to start a game of Texas Hold'em by telling them that the deck doesn't have any jacks or queens in it and that you won't tell the other people who come to play with them. How do you get people into the casino? You pay the brokers to bring them there.
~ Michael Lewis
The RBC trading floor had what the staff liked to refer to as a "no-asshole rule"; if someone came in the door looking for a job and sounding like a typical Wall Street asshole, they wouldn't hire him, no matter how much money he said he could make the firm. There was even an expression used to describe the culture: "RBC nice.
~ Michael Lewis
His first mistake, he decided, was to have paid insufficient attention to Joey Dorsey's age. "He was insanely old," says Morey. "He was twenty-four years old when we drafted him." Dorsey's college career was impressive because he was so much older than the people he played against.
~ Michael Lewis
As founder of Eventbrite, I've interviewed almost every single person we've hired.
~ Julia Hartz
Are we caring for our volunteers properly? Are we providing the right training? Is there a better way we could recruit? What are the faithful volunteers in our church actually experiencing? Are they growing spiritually? Do they feel like an integral part of a team?
~ Bill Hybels
Al Qaeda" didn't translate to "the base," as most Western media outlets had so ignorantly reported, but rather, "the database." It referred to the original computer file of the thousands of mujahideen who were recruited and trained with the help of the CIA to defeat the Russians in Afghanistan.
~ Brad Thor
I wanted young men who wanted to play for UCLA, and not one that I had to talk into playing for UCLA. I always believed that the way to build a great team is to find the kind of people you want to work with and tell them the truth.
~ Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Hiring's tough. It's not just filtering through hundreds of applications and blocking out big chunks of your day for interviews - those are the simple parts. The difficult thing is the nagging feeling that, despite your best efforts, the perfect candidate will somehow fall through the cracks.
~ Leah Busque
I think the hardest part, and where we have to stay the most disciplined, as much as you want a player, you can't invent him if he doesn't exist.
~ Paul DePodesta
I had a mind inquiring enough to question world events, as well as the passion fostered by my background to care, but I lacked the emotional maturity to process these things. That made me ripe for Islamist recruitment. Into this ferment came my recruiter, himself straight out of a London medical college.
~ Maajid Nawaz
I think players look around and they look at the teams that they'd like to join and it's usually teams that already have good players on those teams.
~ Tom Thibodeau
There were, however, countervailing forces. The independence of the Italian judiciary had been reinforced by the recruitment of a generation of idealistic lawyers in the wake of the global uprisings of 1968.
~ Francis Fukuyama
Every time we hire someone, he or she should raise the bar for the next hire, so that the overall talent pool is always improving,
~ Brad Stone
Shouldn't we be as rigorous in hiring as we are in capital spending?
~ Bradford D. Smart
Regardless, I often wish that the two groups - adults and kids - could find a way to get along better. Some sort of treaty or something. The biggest problem is, the adults have one of the most effective recruitment strategies in the world. Give them enough time, and they'll turn any kid into one of them.
~ Brandon Sanderson
He didn't recruit me," Cett pointed out. "I got pulled by my balls into this little fiasco." "I wish I cared enough to apologize," Elend said, staring at them.
~ Brandon Sanderson