Words speak a lot. Simple quotes can provide a lot of motivation in our lives. These quotes help us reconsider our thinking and decision-making process during difficult times. This is true in all types of a situation like any, even recruiting. Recruiters are like the heart of any employment process.
People in the company are responsible for any organizations growth, so hiring them for your organization is a very great responsibility and cannot be taken lightly.
So, here we present you few insightful recruiter quotes that inspire them to work exceptionally good and help to make better recruiting decisions.
Inspirational Quotes for Recruiters & HR Professionals:
2. “Recruiting should be viewed as a business partner, someone who is critical to the success of the business.”
3. “Cult recruiting methods based on dosing victims with the brain chemicals released during capture bonding would make cults even more of a problem than they are now.” – Keith Henson
4. “In recruiting, there are no good or bad experiences – just learning experiences!!”
5. “Great vision without great people is irrelevant.”— Jim Collins
6. “Few things are more important to our country’s future than recruiting and keeping great teachers in our schools.” – Wendy Kopp
7. “Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he’s hired to do.”— Malcolm Forbes
8. “To me, no one has fully cracked the code on social recruiting yet.” – Eric Lefkofsky
9. “A modern recruiter is one who is targeted, builds relationships and knows how to not only find candidates but also get them to respond!”— Stacy Donovan Zapar
10. “To me, I was always just standing on the sidelines because up until issue 50, we were just doing Spawn. I wasn’t recruiting anybody because I didn’t have any books for people to work on.” – Todd McFarlane
11. “You can have the best strategy and the best building in the world, but if you don’t have the hearts and minds of the people who work with you, none of it comes to life.”— Renee West
12. “A well-designed 401(k) plan is an enormous competitive edge when recruiting and retaining employees.” – Barry Ritholtz
13. “Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for the love of it.”— Henry David Thoreau
14. “I don’t know if I’m different from everybody else, but there’s really only two things to me that are really, really important – recruiting good players in the program and developing those players once they get here.” – Nick Saban
15. “Time spent on hiring is time well spent.” — Robert Half
16. “Guns can turn you into an insider even if you’re an outsider by nature, recruiting you into a loose fraternity of people who feel embattled and defensive and are primally eager to win allies.” – Walter Kirn
17. “I am convinced that nothing we do is more important than hiring and developing people. At the end of the day you bet on people, not on strategies.” — Lawrence Bossidy
18. “Recruiting talent is no different than any other challenge a startup faces. It’s all about selling.” – Vivek Wadhwa
19. “You’re not just recruiting employees, but are sowing the seeds of your reputation.”
20. “At the end of the day, if you’re not beating the teams on the road recruiting that you have to beat on the field, then you’re probably not going to win many championships.” – Kirby Smart
21. “The goal of your social channels is to build community, and you do that by providing value.”
22. “There’s nothing worse than recruiting a player and then leaving the player.” – Kirby Smart
23. “If you think it’s expensive to hire a professional, wait until you hire an amateur.”
24. “Recruiting is the hardest part of any business, but in charity, it is 10 times harder.” – Manoj Bhargava
25. “Engagement has to be human, because people trust people more than brands.”
26. “The classic problem as an entrepreneur is that they have a hard time delegating. But that’s really crazy. Recruiting other executives is critical, so is dealing with customers and dealing with regulators. Those are functions that only the top founders can do.” – Robert Pozen
27. “Sourcing and finding people is the most important. You can’t recruit, message, or network with someone you haven’t found.”
28. “Management is nothing more than motivating other people.” – Lee Iacocca
29. “Hire character. Train skill.”
30. “You cannot push anyone up the ladder unless he is willing to climb.” – Andrew Carnegie
31. “Diversity is imperative because it’s critical for our economy and talent pipeline.”
32. “I hire people brighter than me and then I get out of their way” – Lee Iacocca
33. “We can raise the talent bar, but you have to do something different. You can’t do what you are currently doing today.” – Lou Adler
34. “If you think it’s expensive to hire a professional, wait until you hire an amateur”
35. “The harder you work, the luckier you get.”
36. “You cannot hang out with negative people and expect to get a positive result.”
37. “As with a pair of child’s shoes, it’s always best to find new employees with room to grow into.”
38. “Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in & day out.” – Robert Collier
39. “It’s also important to be objective and make an unbiased hiring decision.”
40. “Most people overestimate what they can do in year 1 and totally underestimate what they will achieve by year” – Bill Gates
41. “If you find someone who’s great, don’t wait until there’s a job opening.”
42. “If you pick the right people and give them the opportunity to spread their wings and put compensation as a carrier behind it, you almost don’t have to manage them.” – Jack Welch
43. “I hire people brighter than me and I get out of their way.” – Lee Iacocca
44. “The competition to hire the best will increase in the years ahead. Companies that give extra flexibility to their employees will have the edge in this area.” – Bill Gates
45. “The secret of my success is that we have gone to exceptional lengths to hire the best people in the world.” – Steve Jobs
46. “A company should limit its growth based on its ability to attract enough of the right people.” – Jim Collins
47. “Great vision without great people is irrelevant.” – Jim Collins
48. “Get the right people on the bus and the wrong people off the bus” – Jim Collins
49. “A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.” – Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
50. “The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.”
– Theodore Roosevelt
51. “The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born-that there is a genetic factor to leadership. That’s nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.” – Warren Bennis
52. “A good manager is a man who isn’t worried about his own career but rather the careers of those who work for him.” – H. S. M Burns
53. “A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.” – Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
54. “The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.”
– Theodore Roosevelt
55. “The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born-that there is a genetic factor to leadership. That’s nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.” – Warren Bennis
56. “A good manager is a man who isn’t worried about his own career but rather the careers of those who work for him.” – H. S. M Burns
57. “Do not hire a man (or woman) who does your work for money, but him (or her) who does it for the love of it.” – Henry David Thoreau
58. “If we weren’t still hiring great people and pushing ahead at full speed, it would be easy to fall behind and become a mediocre company.” – Bill Gates
59. “The key for us, number one, has always been hiring very smart people.” – Bill Gates
60. “Hire people who are better than you are, then leave them to get on with it. Look for people who will aim for the remarkable, who will not settle for the routine.” – David Ogilvy
61. “When I find an employee who turns out to be wrong for a job, I feel it is my fault because I made the decision to hire him.” – Akio Morita
62. “Development can help great people be even better–but if I had a dollar to spend, I’d spend 70 cents getting the right person in the door.”- Paul Russel
63. “Leaders don’t flock. You have to find them one at a time.” – Ross Perot
64. “If I were running a company today, I would have one priority above all others: to acquire as many of the best people as I could [because] the single biggest constraint on the success of my organization is the ability to get and to hang on to enough of the right people.” – Jim Collins
65. “In determining the right people, the good-to-great companies placed greater weight on character attributes than on specific educational background, practical skills, specialized knowledge, or work experience.” – Jim Collins
66. “The moment you feel the need to tightly manage someone, you’ve made a hiring mistake. The best people don’t need to be managed. Guided, taught, led–yes. But not tightly managed.” – Jim Collins
67. “People are not your most important asset. The right people are.” – Jim Collins
68. “One cannot hire a hand; the whole man always comes with it.” – Peter Drucker
69. “If you think it’s expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur.” – Red Adair
70. “First-rate people hire first-rate people; second-rate people hire third-rate people.”
– Leo Rosten
71. “If you hire only those people you understand, the company will never get people better than you are. Always remember that you often find outstanding people among those you don’t particularly like.” – Soichiro Honda
72. “I don’t pay good wages because I have a lot of money; I have a lot of money because I pay good wages.” – Robert Bosch
73. “You only lack experience if they want it done the same old way.” – Robert Brault
74. “Talent hits a target no one else can hit; genius hits a target no one else can see.” – Arthur Schopenhauer
75. “Eighty percent of success is showing up.” – Woody Allen
76. “People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.” – Andrew Carnegie
77. “When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.” – Alexander Graham Bell
Inspirational Quotes For Recruiters:
A quote is a phrase or a sentence which has the capacity to inspire or motivate people and can also lead to bring in bigger changes in the world.
Listed here are few famous Quotes That Will Inspire and Delight Any Recruiter,
1. “I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.” ― Bill Gates.
2. “In recruiting, there are no good or bad experiences – just learning experiences!!”
3. “At most companies, average performers get an average raise. At Netflix, they get a generous severance package” – Reed Hastings
4. “Recruiting should be viewed as a business partner, someone who is critical to the success of the business.” – Mathew Caldwell
5. “The best thing that you can do for employees – a perl better than foosball or free sushi – is to hire only ‘A’ players to work alongside them. Excellent colleagues trump everything else” – Patti McCord
6. “You’re not just recruiting employees, but are sowing the seeds of your reputation.”
7. “Hire character. Train skill.” – Peter Schutz
8. “Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down” – Oprah Winfrey
9. “The goal of your social channels is to build a community, and you do that by providing value.” – Lars Schmidt
10. “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act, but a habit.” – Aristotle
11. “Somebody once said that in looking for people to hire, you look for 3 qualities: integrity, intelligence and energy. And if you don’t have the first, the other two will kill you. You think about it; it’s true. If you hire somebody without [integrity], you really want them to be dumb and lazy” – Warren Buffet
12. “If you think it’s expensive to hire a professional, wait until you hire and amateur.”
13. “Diversity is imperative because it’s critical for our economy and talent pipeline.” – Liz Mackay
14. “Engagement has to be human because people trust people more than brands.” – Ana Alonso
15. “The harder you work, the luckier you get.” – Plato
16. “Time spent on hiring is time well spent.” – Robert Half
17. “As with a pair of child’s shoes, it’s always best to find new employees with room to grow into.”
18. “Sourcing and finding people is the most important. You can’t recruit, message, or network with someone you haven’t found.” – Glen Cathey
19. “Pick up the phone and talk to the candidate. Give them the verbal handshake and build that relationship so they will trust you. That what it is all about” – Derek Bambrick
20. “We can raise the talent bar, but you have to do something different. You can’t do what you are currently doing today.” – Lou Adler
21. “Social media allows you to make your jobs more human. Tell talent about the people behind your products. trust your recruiters to be your digital warriors. Don’t second guess it” – Celinda Appleby
22. “If you find someone who’s great, don’t wait until there’s a job opening – send [them] to me.” – Kevin P Ryan
Quotes Recruiters Can Use To Inspire Candidates:
Interviews are usually nerve-wracking and it is very common for a candidate to get nervous during the process. It is the duty of a recruiter to make the candidate relax and free from all sorts of anxiety. And the best way to do it is through quotes. Some of them are as follows,
1. “The only way to do great work is to love what you do.” – Steve Jobs
2. “Never tell me the sky is the limit when there are footprints on the moon” – Author unknown
3. “When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.” – Alexander Graham Bell
4. “The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now” – Chinese proverb
5. The mind is everything. What you think you become. – Buddha
6. “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do” – Mark Twain
7. “When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the aeroplane takes off against the wind,not with it.” – Henry Ford
9. Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell ’em:’Certainly I can!’ Then get busy and find out how to do it. – Theodore Roosevelt
10. “Fall seven times and stand up eight” – Japanese proverb
11. “Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear” – George Addair
12. “If you hear a voice within you say ” you cannot paint,” then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced” – Vincent Van Gogh
13. “Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life” – Confucius
14. “You only lack experience if they want it done the same old way” – Robert Brault
15. “You miss 100 percent of the shots you don’t take” – Wayne Gretzky
