If you’re an employer, you want to hire an employee who’ll do their job, not do your bidding.
As a Member of Congress from one of the fastest growing States in the country, we hire close to 2,500 new teachers a year, close to 5,000 support staff and faculty.
We want to hire people who are self-learners.
What is a danger is that we stay stuck in a new normal where unemployment rates stay high, people who have jobs see their incomes go up, businesses make big profits. But they’re learned to do more with less, and so they don’t hire.
The first prize for any production is, if you can find a location that means you don’t have to build sets, that will serve, and is not excessively expensive to hire, then it can save you a lot of money.
If there’s a sustainable job that will create sustainable value, people will hire for it.
It’s actually a pretty basic concept: when businesses feel secure and confident, they are more likely to grow, hire, and invest. Conversely, when the economy is unstable, businesses often become much more risk averse, and in many cases, they’re forced to make undesirable cuts that affect their bottom line.
Pushing for excellence is a fight. You have to fight to hire the right employees, fight to get the supplies you need, to move line items around. Being a great manager means pushing to get those few extra inches every day. It’s almost like a football game – the team that wins sometimes wins by just inches.
Often, what I tell a new CEO asking for advice, or one of my own new leaders, is the two most important decisions that your team is going to watch is the first person you hire and the first person you promote – because you are saying that’s the type of person I want.
I have never had a plan. Things happen to me, and, of course, I make friends who later say, ‘Hey, you know who would be good for this? McKean would be good for this.’ And they hire me, and if they like me, they hire me again, or the word gets out.
If we get a tax system that is competitive, we will hire people. When you hire people, you have to compete for labor. When you compete for labor, you drive wages.
Of course, to publish something, you have to write it, polish it, then hire out the line editing, copy editing and cover design. After which, you pick your way through the minefield of conforming to the differing requirements of Amazon, Barnes & Noble and Smashwords, or hire someone to do it for you.
The fashion world tells me how much they love my work, but they don’t hire me very often. Tom Ford did, and he hated it. Naturally, he wanted to Photoshop away the imperfections, which is perfectly understandable. They want their vision.
I don’t want to become a director for hire.
Thanks to President Bush and Republican principles, businesses now have more confidence to hire workers.
The most important thing a mayor does is hire talented people to run the city.
Nobody ever wants to hire me or offer me a job. I think I’m really talented; I really do. Like, people may not like my views about Muslims or whatever.
I might have made more money if I had outsourced to India, and I knew I’d find it easier to hire senior managers in London. But I wanted to be in Stoke. What could be more satisfying than creating work for 3,000 people in my home town?
I was working with another major label after Warner Bros, and they were telling me who to hire as musicians, what kind of music to play, what producer to use. I mean, what’s the point of putting me on the record?
When you think about ‘The Simpsons’ or ‘King of the Hill’ or something like that, the worlds tend to expand each episode, because there’s no additional cost incurred to hire an animated character.
You don’t need to be an engineer or a tech person to benefit from technology. You can hire them.
In trying to mentor and hire, I always encourage people to learn how to sell. We work hard to be profitable; you can do good and do well. They don’t have to be mutually exclusive.
I really hope someday in Hollywood, some producer or director will hire me only to do drama.
I think there’s a reason why some companies have such dismal records. It’s not because they’re clueless; it’s because they systematically don’t want to hire women.
When I came out of high school, my objective in life was to get a job selling used cars, but after trying for two weeks, nobody would hire me.
I think it’s sort of an outrage that companies should have to hire firms to teach the college graduates they employ how to write.
Small lending institutions lack the capability of their larger counterparts to hire the additional manpower necessary to deal with the hundreds of additional regulations created by Dodd-Frank.
It’s very important in a restaurant to really do the right hiring because there’s no restaurant that you have one cook and one chef and nobody else in the kitchen. Generally you have five, ten, 15 people with you. So that’s really important is to train them right, but first you have to hire the right people.
When I first started, I was kind of surprised that anyone would ever hire me at all. So I took everything that I was offered.
If faced with two competitive candidates, every company will hire the person who evinces more enthusiasm.
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.
I think it’s the actor’s job – when you think of being typecast or getting out of the shadow of whatever you’ve had success in – it’s up to you as an actor. The industry will always want to hire you for what you were successful in last and what made money. But you can say no to that and look for other parts.
I think if you have a two-story office and you hire someone who’s handicapped, it might be reasonable to let him have an office on the first floor rather than the government saying you have to have a $100,000 elevator.
Google was founded to get information to everybody. A by-product of that strategy is that we invented an advertising business which has provided great economics that allows us to build the servers, hire the employees, create value.
I do not want to impose additional taxes on the employers at a time when our economy is very fragile and we want to encourage them to hire.
I remember when I interviewed at MSNBC, one of the first things they said to me was, ‘In your tapes, you had a mustache, right?’ I said, ‘Yeah, I recently took it off.’ I said, ‘If you hire me, you get to decide if you want it or not.’ They said, ‘No, no, we’re fine with it now.’
This is his solution: He said all we need to do is take your tax dollars, send them to Washington, have Washington take out its cut, having Washington then send it back to the states, have the states then go out and hire public employees. Does that make sense to you? Is that how to get the economy moving?
I want to be in ‘Avatar’. I want somebody to hire me to be Superman, a Chinese Superman or Spider-Man.
I think that most people who hire me to do a remix just want it to work in a nightclub, whereas when I’m writing my own album, I don’t have to worry so much about 2 A.M.
I had never created my own business before. I had always been the gun to hire… But I had to finally say, nobody is going to give me my dream job, so I better figure it out myself.
If every other store in town is paying workers $9 an hour, one offering $8 will find it hard to hire anyone – perhaps not when unemployment is high, but certainly in normal times. Robust competition is a powerful force helping to ensure that workers are paid what they contribute to their employers’ bottom lines.
I’ll continue working as long as people want to hire me.
Something I often say is, ‘I stand on the shoulders of the people who came before, and I’m ready to lift up people to stand on my shoulders.’ And one of the ways we can do that is to hire them.
Basically, farm chemicals are labor-saving devices, and farmers who don’t use them – weed killers especially – have to work harder or hire more help.
I’ve told my agent to push the idea of me as a director for hire off the table. Otherwise, we’re wasting people’s time.
If the economy is still going forward, even at 40 miles an hour, 50 miles an hour, I think most people will stick with President Obama. I think people look at politics like they hire a plumber. I hire you to fix the bad pipe. If you fix it, I’ll rehire you. If you don’t fix it, I’m not going to rehire you.
The owner’s job is to hire the general manager. The general manager’s job is to run the hockey team.
I understand that if I really need my hair to be nice, now I hire someone to do it, and I understand that putting on a pair of heels really makes a difference.
I’d like to see the word ‘entrepreneur’ knocked off its pedestal. Being ‘entrepreneurial’ is something I look for not only in founders to invest in, but also employees to hire.
The majority of the time, we try to hire the best people that we can get just to make the best films, and I think that’s something that Pure Flix has been known for the movies we produce on the budgets that we do… our production values have elevated this genre.
What I have done is always try to be nice to work with. I make the best impression, try to do a good job… and if people hire me again, it’s for the right reasons.
If you look at my Instagram, girls are just beating down my door for tips or a job or mentorship. I can’t hire every single one of them. My story is one thing that gives them hope. It’s an unconventional story with anecdotes, commonsense advice and a big dose of permission to figure things out for yourself.
