Richard Branson Quotes

The employer is not going to choose the gang member who's just been released from prison: they're going to choose the person with the skills.

I'm not even an engineer. I don't have a college degree; I hire guys with college degrees.

My go-to line when it's the resume game is that I'm either Chris Evans or Ryan Reynolds.

I've never really hired anybody that people thought I should hire.

Selection of crews is always been somewhat of a mystery.

I fire very little because I try to be very careful when I select people. If you know how to select, you don't fire often.

The service leaders hire one out of 50 applicants, sometimes one out of 100, but they're very, very careful. You can't afford not to be extremely choosy when you hire.

Few great men would have got past personnel.

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

Selecting the right person for the right job is the largest part of coaching.

You just have to hope that they'll grant you an interview.

Once I could persuade these guys that all I wanted to hear from them was what they did - Tell me what you do - once you can persuade someone that this is all you're after, you can't shut them up because we're all fascinated by what we do.

You want to feel like people are hiring you because they want to work with you, not because of who your parents are.

You must have a rationale for your candidacy.

So you want this fucking job.

You've got to be qualified. The problem with all the affirmative action laws is that if you have been sufficiently discriminated against in education and training then you can't take advantage of the law because you're not qualified to hold the job.... If you can't show that you're qualified the employer doesn't have to hire you.

The job requires skills.

The person who does that role better than anyone else is the person who should get that role, regardless of their background or heritage.

I want to make it clear, I'm not whining, and the Celtics owe me nothing. But having said that, you would think at least I would have a conversation about a coaching job, since that's what I want to do.

How do I find someone for a position I've never worked with - or worked under, even? I feel like I'm not qualified to make a lot of these decisions.

Most people, when they hire you, they want some experience on the resume.

A job letter, an interview - even a writing sample - have far less to do with intellect and far more to do with aesthetics than you think.

If the team needs me to recruit somebody, I'll be here. I'll be doing that.

Managers get interviewed for jobs, but I think it should be the managers who are interviewing the chairman.

An interview is about mutual selection.