Hiring Challenges Quotes

It is much easier to hire your 20th person than your 1st.

Large corporation hiring is geared to not hiring you.

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

If there's labour shortages, we issue work permits. It's as simple as that.

Recruiting is hard. It's just finding the needles in the haystack. You can't know enough in a one-hour interview.

It's a good thing to remember that hiring will get easier as you scale - but you should also never drop your standards.

I had a terrible time hiring rich people. It sounds funny, but the problem is when things go wrong they can ask, 'Why am I doing this?' You don't ever want anybody asking that question. You want them to say, 'I know why I'm doing it, I need the money, let's go' or whatever it is that draws them.

You can get people the qualifications; But you can't teach them the qualities they're going to need. You can't teach integrity, a drive for excellence, refusal to quit under pressure. It's too late to build that into people you're going to hire.

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.

When you raise the price of employment, guess what happens? You get less of it. Why do we want to make it harder for small employers to hire people?

If there is one thing that offers challenges to small companies as they start to grow and expand, it is the hiring process... every single area. The issues that can arise run the full spectrum, from 'finding good help' to that ubiquitous catch-all 'training' and everything in between.

Rising health care costs make it impossible to plan for the future, and that means it's impossible to hire more people.

I challenge every business person in America who has ever complained about the failure of the welfare system to try to hire somebody off welfare. And try hard.

We have closely monitored the ups and downs of recruiting and retention trends for many years and have been quick to sound the alarm when challenges came into view.

Recruiting is not an exact science.

It's very, very hard to hire people, qualified people. And a lot of people didn't want the job because it's a three- or four-month job.

When you hire that first person, then you're a boss. You've got performance reviews. You've got complaints about not making enough money. You've got people who are just going to sell your story to the tabloids.

Going out and looking for managers is like going out and looking for rattlesnakes.

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