Employers, like most people, tend to trust their intuitions. But when employers decide whom to hire, they trust those intuitions far more than they should.
In the end, robots do things that people can do. So there is a cost above which you can hire somebody to do it, and that bounds the opportunity.
Of course, I would like to play the guy next door, but nobody’s going to hire me for that kind of role.
Usually people just hire me.
It’s really important for actors to feel that they’re more than something for hire.
I am a little wary of entering another situation where I would just be another director for hire and I’ve been doing this in one form or another since I was twenty-two doing documentaries for PBS and HBO.
Police departments are under enormous political pressure to hire based on race, despite existing efforts to recruit minorities, on the theory that doing so will decrease police shootings of minorities.
You can’t reinvent the wheel. I remember when we first started out at ‘Late Night,’ we were trying to hire directors, and this guy was like, ‘I see you behind a glass desk.’ I don’t. And he’s like, ‘Yeah, the glass desk.’ I go, ‘I don’t really see me as a glass desk guy.’
Sure, it does help you get into a room, but at the end of the day, you have to be able to deliver, and you have to be talented, because they’re not going to hire me because my dad is David Cassidy, who was famous in the ’70s.
If you’re always waiting for a producer to hire you… your chances are really, really small. I’ve been knocking on doors and asking for a job for many years, and my career really changed when I decided to create my own material.
We have to hire, retain, and develop the best staff.
Romance readers love a wealthy hero, and why not? There’s value in a man able to hire a helicopter, a coach and six horses, or a collection of werewolves to do his bidding – and the bidding of the lucky woman on his arm.
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!
Bill Gates finds people in Russia to hire them to Microsoft. That’s the Russian interest in this process.
The man who writes for hire has an obligation, if only to himself, to keep an open mind and to absorb new ideas.
Being a rock widow is not my job, so I would hire people to do it for me.
Good people hire people better than themselves. So A players hire A+ players. But others hire below their skills to make themselves look good. So B players hire C players. C players hire D players, etc.
I still have a dream of one day – I would love to hire a semi-retired contractor and just build a house – him and I building a house for me. I would truly love to do that.
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.
Because of ‘The Birds’ and ‘Marnie’ I was, as the expression goes, hot in Hollywood and producers and directors wanted to hire me.
Our team at Duolingo is really cohesive, but this did not just happen. I made a concerted effort to hire people who are going to play nice.
People are going to hire you, or they’re not, and there’s only so much you can do to hedge your bets.
There are so many things I’d like to change in the industry. Everything from the reliance of style over substance to their reluctance to hire me for big budget blockbusters, but the thing I would love most would be if they understood people don’t have to be Hollywood beautiful to be sexy or interesting.
I knew no one in New York City was going to hire me if I had a southern accent.
Media houses should only hire people with a clean background to give their expert opinion.
Today, when I hire, I look for people who want to be trained and molded.
I like to hire the kind of people that I would want to be on stage with.
James Wan is somebody who doesn’t have any problem coming in and directing somebody else’s script, he’ll be the director for hire and he has his own style and he loves that.
If you can’t hire someone smarter than you, do it yourself.
The Treasury Department would use the interest from these securities to hire U.S. companies to build Saudi Arabia – new cities, new infrastructure – which we’ve done.
I actually went out and tried to hire the very best Cabinet officers that I could, understanding they can make help make the hard calls for the budget position that we’re in.
When you hire in business, you don’t worry about marquee value.
The people that make this country work, the people who pay on their mortgages, the people getting up and going to work, striving in this recession to not participate in it, they’re not the enemy. They’re the people that hire you. They’re the people that are going to give you a job.
We will follow two simple rules: Buy American and hire American.
Men need to hire more women and put them in higher positions of power within organizations.
One of the great pressures we’re facing in journalism now is it’s a lot cheaper to hire thumb suckers and pundits and have talk shows on the air than actually have bureaus and reporters.
I am a professional comedian, a published novelist, and a general wit for 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.
One thing I think is true is that is you have someone who’s really good in one or a few areas they can pick up something new pretty quickly and that’s kind of a hallmark of someone you really want to hire because they can be very useful in a whole bunch of different areas.
Having an infant is difficult. It’s a lot of work, and I didn’t hire any help because I overestimated my own abilities.
Every year I go to Denver, usually between June and August. I hire a car and head up to the Rocky Mountain National Park, about a three-hour drive. It’s my idea of heaven on earth and just talking about it puts me in a good mood.
Dealing with environmental lawsuits and grassroots resistance is expensive. Industrial wind and solar developers have to hire lawyers, public relations specialists, and scientists willing to testify that this or that project poses only a modest threat to endangered birds and bats.
If my career isn’t going that well, I’d rather it flounder than desperately trying to show up on red carpets: ‘I’m for hire! Remember me!’
If the only way a library can offer an Internet exhibit about the New Deal is to hire a lawyer to clear the rights to every image and sound, then the copyright system is burdening creativity in a way that has never been seen before because there are no formalities.
Many men today can cook, or at least order takeout, and know where and how to hire domestic help, perhaps with refreshing clarity and less anxiety than ever-conflicted mothers.
During my high-risk pregnancy, I consistently experienced subpar care from my hospital, which led me to hire two midwives instead. They provided me with excellent and loving care, and they made my pregnancy a truly special and powerful moment in my life.
We lose our right to be surprised that California has the highest recidivism rate in the country if we refuse to hire folks who have taken responsibility for their crimes and have done their time.
Etsy radically simplified and amended their policies. Sellers of handmade goods can now hire as much help as they need to run their shops. They can apply to sell designs they produce with the help of outside businesses.
You want to do your job well so that people in the future say, ‘OK, he’s not bad, let’s hire him.’
The thing about Luke Cage that makes him different is – on the surface is he’s a hero for hire; Luke Cage wants to get paid. Luke Cage in the comic books is like, ‘I’m doing this stuff. It’s all well and good, but I gotta make a dollar.’
I knew you had to go in and audition and maybe they’d hire you, and that’s where you start. I had a good understanding about press: that it’s the actor’s responsibility to publicize his or her films.
Hire me for the next picture. I don’t have to just play down-and-out trailer trash and mean, old, wicked, old nuns. I could play a princess or a queen. That’s all I wanted to do. Because campaigning does go on. It’s a part of selling the film.
I’ve had friends of mine hire people that I know well or that have worked for me, and I haven’t gotten the call to do a reference check. That’s almost the most basic thing one can do to assess them.
Obviously I don’t have a stylist for everyday stuff, but for a premiere or something usually the studio will hire someone.
A guitar player goes on the road, and he misses his girlfriend for a while, but he manages to get along. A horn player gets out on the road, plays two or three towns, and then he’ll get lonely, and next thing you know, he’s packed up and left. It’s better not to hire him in the first place.
I don’t want to be in boardrooms talking about hiring hairdressers and minivans. I’m not good at it, and I don’t like to hire and fire people. I hate that. It’s horrible.
For about a year, I worked for ‘Daily Kos.’ They were great. I mean, they allowed me to write whatever I was thinking about and feeling. ‘The New York Daily News’ saw it. They were making some pretty big changes. They hired a new editor in chief. I was his first hire.
