Job Fit Quotes

When I find an employee who turns out to be wrong for the job, I feel it is my fault because I made the decision to hire him.

Virgin, is how good you are with people. If you're - if you're good with people and you've got - you know, and you really care, genuinely care about people then I'm sure we could find a job for you at Virgin. I think, you know, that, you know, that the companies that look after their people are the companies that do really well. I'm sure we'd like a few other attributes, but that would be the most important one.

Generally the reason they fail in the job is, you made some mistake in the hiring process in that you didn't match... them to the needs of your company accurately enough. That's the #1 reason this fails. And that's generally a good place to start: Here's where we are and here's what I didn't recognize about us and about you when I made the decision, and now it is what it is.

I've been wondering for a while now if the CEO role is one that I want - and the one that I'm best at.

Of course, every job I ever had I thought I was born for.

If you work hard doing the wrong job, is it really work? Or is it some kind of fakery?

Beware of a misfit occupation. . . . Consider carefully your natural bent, whether for business or a profession.

I think failure is the best thing for some people. It tells you whether you're in the right job or the wrong one.

If you want this job too much you may not be any good at it.

If you want to hire the best people, the best people are already doing pretty impressive things. They have their life plans, their picture for what they want to be doing. To figure out a way in which those trajectories align really takes time.

I took parts that either I was offered or felt I could do a good job with.

Each man delights in the work that suits him best.

You had better be a round peg in a square hole than a square peg in a square hole. The latter is in for life, while the first is only an indeterminate sentence.

If we get the right people in the right job we've won the game.

There's only one person for every job. You can try all you want, but if you're not right for it, you're not gonna get it.

Getting the right people in the right jobs is a lot more important than developing a strategy.

Once I started working as an assistant director, I just realized very quickly that working on a film set was just a perfect fit for me.

If someone doesn't fit in your company, you have an obligation to get rid of them, because you're holding them back from excelling elsewhere.

The one thing I always think about when I don't get jobs is that it just wasn't yours. You don't want to do something that you're not right for because it won't make the production look good, and it won't make you look good.

In the minds of great managers, consistent poor performance is not primarily a matter of weakness, stupidity, disobedience, or disrespect. It is a matter of miscasting.

We may seem great in an employment below our worth, but we very often look little in one that is too big for us.

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

I feel like I'm in the right profession.

Often, the pressure of the business and fear of having an open position encourages us to hire people who are either not right for the job or not ready to take on the responsibility.

One classic mistake is when people give the impression that they just want a job, not this job or this company in particular. From a hiring manager's perspective, you're looking for someone who is excited about this role or this company.