Looking for inspiration for your hiring efforts? We’ve gathered 15 top quotes for recruiters to feel motivated and ready to succeed.
We will be featuring some quotes from top industry professionals - providing you with some great insights into the minds of recruiters, and how to be successful.
Sit back, relax, and enjoy these motivational quotes for recruiters.
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Recruitment branding quotes
It is paramount for any recruiter to have a strong and definitive brand identity, especially in today’s current cutthroat job market. Recruitment branding refers to the process of creating a recruiter brand that reflects the unique identity of your organization that is distinguished from other hungry competitors.
Effective brand identity can help:
- Attract higher-quality candidates
- Improve the interview-to-offer ratio
- Reduce cost-per-hire
Read on to discover the top talent acquisition quotes:
“Recruitment is marketing. If you’re a recruiter nowadays and you don’t see yourself as a marketer, you’re in the wrong profession.”
- Matthew Jeffrey, Global Head of Sourcing & Employment Brand at SAP
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Recruitment is not just about intermittent job posts. Candidates are much more active than they used to be, and it’s important to be active and attentive to this. Building a strong brand identity is crucial for recruiters to attract the right talent, and reduce the searching and screening time.
"Recruiting should be viewed as a business partner, someone who is critical to the success of the business."
- Mathew Caldwell, Former VP of People at Instacart
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Employees are the crux of every organization, and in today’s rapidly changing labor market, effective recruitment is more critical to success than ever. Many companies are now turning to recruitment agencies in order to better build up a team of top-tier talent.
"Your employer brand is never what you say it is. It's what your employees and candidates say it is."
- Jillian Einck, Director of Employer Brand at Recruitics
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The term “candidate experience” is becoming more and more prevalent among recruiters these days. Brand identity is how your candidate feels about every stage of the recruitment process. Pay attention to every detail to bring out the best results.
Quotes for recruiters’ teamwork
Top recruitment agencies are all smooth sailing to deliver the best service to their clients. In other words, everyone should be on the same page, and understand each other's roles and responsibilities. Always committing to achieving the same goal.
Teamwork is a major part of success, especially in recruitment. A well-oiled team works efficiently to source the best candidates for each role, ensuring clients always have the best possible pool of talent to choose from.
“It’s easier to win if you have people seeing things from different perspectives.”
- Jack Ma, Cofounder at Alibaba
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Jack Ma is a Chinese entrepreneur that built his empire from scratch. He has worked with a variety of different people, so understands the utmost importance of a diverse and inclusive team. He sees the value in having people's different ideas and mindsets in the workplace. And how it’s essential for organizations to come up with breakthrough solutions.
“Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win champions”
- Michael Jordan, Retired Sportsperson & Entrepreneur
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Numerous top talent gurus have echoed and emphasized the impact of the “top 2 percent” of employees creating a 98% of effect in the company for years. These days, many businesses are motivated by this notion.
Although it’s massively exaggerated, it ignores the important point that success in today’s corporate world depends more on cooperation and teamwork than on the performance of the individual.
“Your value will be not what you know; it will be what you share”
- Ginni Rometty, CEO at IBM
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Open communication is invaluable to cooperating as a team. Sharing knowledge can help improve team performance, and connect and learn from each other.
Leadership quotes for recruiters
Strong leadership is vital to the success of a recruitment agency. Teams must collaborate and cooperate to identify the needs of both the clients and candidates and then match them up as effectively and timely as possible.
Good communication is essential at every stage of the process, from initial contact with potential clients to follow up after an interview. In addition, recruiters must be able to adapt to the evolving job market. This requires the team to constantly keep up with the latest industry trends and be willing to experiment with new strategies.
“Good leaders organize and align people around what the team needs to do. Great leaders motivate and inspire people with why they are doing it. That’s the key to achieving something truly transformational”
- Marilyn Hewson, CEO at Lockheed Martin
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A leader is one who holds everyone together. But, a good leader not only knows how to delegate work to other team members but also gives them the tools to do so effectively. Sharing your vision is simply not enough - helping dissect and understand the motive behind that is vital for success.
“It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently”
- Co-founder at Berkshire Hathaway
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It takes time to build a strong identity and a reputation, it’s often not easy and it can take time - maintaining it is even more challenging. One minor mistake can impact the entire business so it’s crucial to be diligent and aware of possible issues.
“The most valuable businesses of the coming decades will be built by entrepreneurs who seek to empower people rather than make them obsolete”
- Peter Thiel, Co-founder at PayPal
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Brand reputation can be built through your relationship and the environment with your employees. A company that offers growth opportunities for individuals to explore and places value on them.
People management & development quotes
It should be echoed throughout every organization just how important a company’s employees are, as they are the core of any successful business. The job market has taken a serious hit over the last couple of years, where even recruitment agencies are having difficulty retaining employees. That’s why it’s important now more than ever to focus on building up a team of high-quality recruiters.
“Clients do not come first. Employees come first. If you take care of your employees, they will take care of the clients.”
- Sir Richard Branson, Co-founder at Virgin Group
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Prioritizing your team's needs and wants is the most effective way to get satisfied customers. A fulfilled employee will perform much better than an unsatisfied one, so it’s important to put things in place to ensure they stay.
“Before you become a leader, success is all about growing yourself. After you become a leader, success is about growing others."
- Jack Welch, CEO at General Electric
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As a leader, helping each individual grow should be a part of your mission. Growth opportunities ultimately lead to the development and success of the company as a whole. Team performance depends on the development of the whole team, not just an individual, so self and staff development is a must if you want your business to succeed.
"To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart."
- Eleanor Roosevelt, Former First Lady at U.S.A
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Empathy and compassion are extremely important nowadays. The ability to understand others’ will allow you to help them and in turn, work with them more effectively. This is important to build expectations and set goals for team performance. It also comes as a bonus that your employees can build connections.
Employee motivation quotes
Recruitment agencies are always looking for ways to motivate their employees. After all, motivated employees are much more productive.
The following quotes for recruiters will give you ideas on the importance of employee motivation and how to actually lift the mood of your team for better results.
“No man can be successful unless he first loves his work."
- David Sarnoff, CEO at RCA
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Give your team members reasons to love their job, and they’ll do it with passion.
“True motivation comes from achievement, personal development, job satisfaction, and recognition.”
- Frederick Herzberg, Psychologist
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True motivation comes from any source.
“Allow people to be themselves. People want to be great, great companies let them be great."
- Arte Nathan, Former HR chief at Steve Wynn’s gaming companies
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People's abilities will be stifled if they are forced into something they are not.
