Daniel Lyons Quotes

Tell me who you want to see on the Left, and I'll hire them. If you give me a big name that's out there, that's floating around and wants work, I'd be happy to hire them.

If we go in the Middle East, and we start to recruit there, and we see that all of a sudden there's this massive interest, there's massive depth of people that we feel have the ability to succeed, then we would go there first - or quicker.

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Yes, I've had some pretty good luck finding wonderful talent.

I can't get hired in a studio movie. Everything is so uphill.

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

I can remember loving to recruit. I knew I was going to do my best. But traveling and recruiting doesn't appeal to me any more. It's not as much fun as it used to be.

I'm always looking for new talent.

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

Twitter is amazing. I advertised for the position of research assistant on Twitter, and both of my researchers came from there.

To me, no one has fully cracked the code on social recruiting yet.

My job is to help more people have jobs.

The experts typically know where the other best-in-the-world talents are currently working and can help you recruit them in with a credible intro.

Opening positions are opening positions.

I've hired people I've met at parties and other events, and I've hired a lot of people right out of college. It's really based on personality as opposed to experience.

You go for the best talent available, wherever it is. You fish it out. That's how I've scouted all my career. Doesn't matter where it is - international, domestic, college, anywhere.

Rightly or wrongly, for better or worse, valuation is a very important tool for recruiting - particularly in the markets for software engineering, where the market is really tight.

Recruiting is tough because you have to stay in the battle. You've got so many guys that are going after a certain amount of kids.

Recruiting is all about relationships, it's not really about the facilities or the schools involved.

Fortunately, our digital age has created some wonderful tools for finding employers and showing your strengths. But when it comes to discovering or keeping a job, nothing beats good old-fashioned face time and up-to-date skills.

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

I have a lot of people who want to work for me.

We talk a lot in Silicon Valley about product pipelines and sales pipelines, but what about talent pipelines? It is, after all, talent - people - who give us products to sell.

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

Every company, regardless of size, is competing for the same pool of talent, which is why top recruiters can even command equity for finding key hires. Internships give startups a chance to hire the best and brightest from our universities at a fraction of the cost that these same minds will command when they receive their degrees.