Talent Acquisition Prints

This is classical in hiring: she's trying to unsettle the candidate to find out how he reacts point blank to the unexpected.

"And do you have any OTHER skills you can bring to the post apart from being able to burp the Beatles greatest hits?"

"College basketball recruiters are after him."

"What's wrong with swallowing up other companies?"

"That recruitment algorithm we’ve been using, I think we need to revisit it!"

Henry the amazing talking dog.

Enterpe, Terpsichore, Calliope, and Bernie, their agent.

'I'll be honest with you. The pay isn't great.'

"That's nice, but do you have any references other than your Mom?"

I like what I'm seein' out there. This could be our year Wikowski.

"Oh, no! We've inadvertently gobbled up our own parent company."

"And what else do you think you can bring to the role of Edmund, Earl of Gloucester?"

'I'm feeling absolutely marvelous. I think I'll acquire another company.'

"I love being your agent, Nick, but the guys making the really big bucks now are the managers. Let me be your manager."

'I'm feeling absolutely marvelous. I think I'll acquire another company.'

"It's strictly business. Please don't take your financial ruin personally."

Cafe investors: I'd like your support in acquiring the lemonade stand down the street. By cutting redundant labor, marketing and technology. I place our annual savings at $17 billion. The phone company investors bought it. Can monkey lick your head?

'Billy! Set your homework aside and get down here. There's another basketball recruiter here to see you.'

Sid Sinatra.

Talent, pluck, or plain dumb luck?

'You're one heck of a corporate head-hunter, Ms. Bridwell.'

'There's a gentleman out here with $643 million. He would like to discuss a takeover.'

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'Hey guys?. . . Help us think what Dale could do for his '15 minutes of fame.''

'I was headhunted.'

Charlotte Rampling

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"Er. . . anything else?"

"I'm thinking action roles might not really be your thing."

"You played yourself in your last picture. Everyone found it unconvincing."

"Sorry, you're not cut out to be a mime artist."

"Face it - in this town, either you're a star or you're just another brown dwarf."

'Could you be more specific than a king's ransom or an arm and a leg.'

'The best gig I can get you for your comeback, Lazarus, is DJ in the graveyard slot.'

No - None sense, take-charge, inc. - Formerly: Happy-go-lucky, inc.'