Al McGuire Quotes

One thing that founders always underestimate is how hard it is to recruit.

As a collegiate, I think you spend 50 percent of your time recruiting. It is a distasteful process.

Usually, you hire people that you think are wonderful.

Recruiting talent is no different than any other challenge a startup faces. It's all about selling.

No matter how you hire, ensuring the systems are in place to manage the process will be critical in allowing you to find the right people to carry the standards you set. Don't neglect that duty!

The number one thing in recruiting in terms of making it a great job is players in your own area.

ZipRecruiter's data-driven approach to matching the right employer with the most qualified job-seeker helps reduce the time, resources and frustrations expended during the hiring process, and the company is well positioned to extend its offerings to serve both employers and job seekers.

A personnel guy always wants to get his pick right. We live that every year. We want to make sure the pick is right.

I have a wealth of experience, but I do not want to coach. I rather like the role of recruiter.

Recruiting is not an exact science.

AirBnB spent 5 months interviewing their first employee, before they hired someone and in their first year, they only hired 2 people.

... how much time you should be spending on hiring? The answer is 0 or 25 percent.

To get the very best people- they have a lot of great options, and so it can easily take a year to recruit someone.

When we hire someone, even if they are going to be in marketing, I will have them talk to the design folks and the engineers.

I think the most important thing I thought is, I thought about recruiting and what we need in recruiting.

If we get the right people in the right job we've won the game.

I'm known as a recruiter. Well you've got to have chicken to make chicken salad.

What characteristics do I look for when hiring somebody? That's one of the questions I ask when interviewing. I want to know what kind of people they would hire.

You're either not hiring at all or it's probably your single biggest block of time.

I think I have a good eye for talent. I think I'm smart enough to figure out what the mission is and achieve it. I achieve it by hiring good people.

For a short time, I hated them. But when you think about it, what good does that do?It takes so much to hold on to hate—you lose your grip on what's important, you know?

Make hiring a top priority.

If you compromise in the first five, ten hires it might kill the company.

If you can think of all the times in your life, some of the happiest times were probably when you were laughing. And some of the worst times in your life you were being laughed at.

Recruiting can be a little deceiving at times. You never know what you've got until you really, really play it out.