Robert Half Quotes

The key for us, number one, has always been hiring very smart people.

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.

I'd like to build a superteam. I'd like the superteam to come to me.

When you hire in business, you don't worry about marquee value.

Above all else, look around to employ the best talent you possibly can.

HR should be every company's killer app. What could possibly be more important than who gets hired?

When you are ready to make your first hires, look for people who understand your passion, want to add to your ideas and can envision ways to make improvements.

It's getting the right person that's the challenge.

Successful companies hire people.

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

One of the great things about building a tech company is the amazing people that you can hire.

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

Hiring great people is almost the most important thing you can do as a leader because they enable you to scale, and they create better leverage for you and your time.

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

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

We all prospect, and don't even know we're doing it. When you start the dating process, you are actually prospecting for the person you want to marry. When you're interviewing employees, you are prospecting for someone who will best fit your needs.

You're only as good as the people you hire.

The legwork is always hard. Really finding people that you think are good enough. Just the definition of what we have to do is finding good enough people that you really think are special.

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

I'm always looking for new talent.

When hiring, trust your feelings.

You'll have to hire people to expand your business. But it's a good discipline to really question if you need each and every hire.

Think about the way most companies currently hire. You post a job and then get blind resumes in response. This should be a social experience.

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!

We're really critical with the process of who we hire. But when you put great people in position, that's how you avoid any missteps.