Sentences with word «recruited»

Narodick, a late - blooming entrepreneur (she will turn 50 this year), was recruited by an exasperated board to come in and finally take the company (it will turn 25 this year) somewhere.

Jim Sweeney, a former consultant who was recruited to be the CEO of health - care start - up Bridge Medical, says, «This is a hot topic for all consultants right now.»

The government recruited Ruusalepp, now Funderbeam's CEO, as the new country's first IT lawyer when she was just 20 and still a student.

He was recruited by USC and went on to play professionally.

They didn't want to hear from me or the volunteers I'd recruited.

The award - winning agency, whose clients include Beats by Dre and Coca - Cola, has also recruited data scientists and technology - product designers.

In Davos, van Houten said that Philips recruited other firms — the likes of Dell, HP, and Cisco — to join its vow to take «equipment back once the customer doesn't want it anymore.»

«Last year, Parkwood Entertainment created new departments and recruited new executives from the tech, business and entertainment sectors who joined the team to help grow Parkwood and its interests,» Beyoncé's rep, Yvette Noel - Schure, said in a statement to Page Six.

What's more, he and his two coworkers have recruited interns from the university and tapped into the knowledge of both business and engineering professors who regularly visit the space.

Waldon had been a marketing manager for a luxury - hotel chain when Earth Preserv recruited him.

Founded in Toronto in 2007, the development shop already makes 70 % of its revenue abroad — as much as 50 % of it from the U.S., where it was recruited by top brands such as Bloomberg Businessweek, CNN, and Vogue.

Soon after finishing his MBA in India, he was recruited by IT company Unisys and worked in Silicon Valley as a computer programmer for several years.

With the new facility now up and running, MacDonald argues that his company has been much more successful with its highly focused direct sales strategy than the firm would have been had it recruited intermediaries or agents to drum up customers.

Of course, as an entrepreneur, Goldman said, you need to develop a vision, a big picture, and get the right people recruited and hired and make sure you have the resources.

McElaney of Micromarketing did his math carefully before he recruited a top - performing salesperson from one of his competitors.

WOMEN IN VENTURE: As Floodgate's Ann Miura - Ko told Term Sheet yesterday, «I know for a fact there's a ton of announcements coming out relatively soon about women being recruited into venture firms.»

In 2016, Tatum and Dewan participated in an iconic episode of «Lip Sync Battle» in which Dewan paid homage to «Magic Mike» by painting on some abs and giving Tatum a lap dance to Ginuwine's «Pony,» and Tatum recruited Beyonce to join him for his dance to «Who Run The World.»

Advertising agency Marketforce is going through a clean sweep of its leadership, with Paul Coghlan recruited to replace senior creatives Pat Lennox and Ben Green, who are leaving in June to start their own consultancy.

Communications consultancy Cannings Purple has recruited former Deloitte chairman Keith Jones to succeed Norman Moore when he steps down as chair next month.

In June, it recruited Arthur Irving's daughter Sarah to the C - suite.

So far, 29 of those 42 stores have closed; in nine of those markets, Home Hardware has recruited new dealers.

To oversee that project, in 2012 Wetmore recruited Eugene Roman, who'd run Bell Canada's IT division.

The Villages decided to expand and recruited Forrec to design a second — and then a third — town centre.

Munk recruited Thornton in 2012 to serve as co-chairman, indicating some kind of succession planning was underway, but some investors still called for a board overhaul.

The company has recruited a volunteer army of decidedly manly men to champion its products.

Robert Sawyer was looking for a challenge when he was recruited as Rona CEO, but even he was surprised by what he found.

To figure this out, the research team recruited 1,874 participants from business schools and online discussion panels, and then surveyed them both about time spent abroad and how those travel experiences impacted their self - knowledge.

A standout element of the film, about supervillains recruited to go on nearly impossible government missions, is its impressive cast, whose members blend so well into their respective roles that you may not even recognize some of the actors.

Although it's tough to estimate precisely how many Googlers were recruited to work at Twitter, and the company did not respond to multiple requests for comment for this article, some LinkedIn searching and sorting reveals it's pretty clear that those rumors aren't completely unfounded: there are about 250 current employees at Twitter that have previously worked at Google, a healthy percentage of the company's estimated 1,500 employees.

Corporate law firm Gilbert + Tobin has recruited former Rio Tinto Australia managing director Philip Edmands as a new Perth - based partner.

New York's attorney general, Eric Schneiderman, was recruited last month to help investigate Manafort for possible financial crimes and money laundering, and the IRS» criminal - investigations unit joined the investigation to examine similar issues.

Some big brains believe Barnes is right: Farmers Edge recently raised nearly $ 60 million in equity investments to help support aggressive international expansion, and the company has recruited former Monsanto, DuPont and Canadian Wheat Board executives into its fold.

He recruited a few ex-Quirky people to his new company, called Scroll, and began dabbling.

A Kauffman Foundation study found that graduate - level technical students were less likely to start a business because of their greater likelihood of being recruited to professional services.

The company has since raised $ 75 million from the likes of Khosla Ventures, Founders Fund, and General Catalyst, and has recruited top talent to its 60 - employee team, including Foursquare co-founder Naveen Selvadurai.

To bring some of Venice's vaunted vibe into Gem's office, Homepolish designer Katherine Carter recruited local artists to paint colorful murals.

There's been rumors of massive Google - poaching, too — AllThingsD went so far as to speculate «hundreds» have been recruited.

In the last few months alone, Sequoia Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, and Battery Ventures have all recruited journalists to head up newly - created content roles.

Miller was recruited to direct a series of TV spots for Quilted Northern toilet paper.

Its mission is to «help voters take back control of their democracy» by giving them a place to debate issues, research candidates» platforms, recruit vote pledges from others and more.

The company is pursuing a range of growth opportunities, including a Sydney city campus for Macquarie University and a new business in Hong Kong to recruit students in China on behalf of education institutions in Australia and the UK.

As a result, the industry can't recruit enough drivers even as the economy rebounds.

More recently, Smith has been able to recruit from other universities and regions — even from the Bay Area.

With recruiting top talent being so difficult, this can be a [valuable] shortcut to an amazing workforce.

«It can reaffirm the strengths of the person,» says Laura Carroll, a recruiting specialist at HomeStars.

Encourage your team members to get out and recruit new employees.

Their motivations vary, as some companies make the move simply to change their environment, while others are looking to recruit specialized talent.

Former Grant Thornton partner Matthew Donnelly and former Perth Airport executive Fiona Lander have brought to seven the number of external recruits to join Deloitte's Perth partnership in the past five months, offsetting moves by other partners such as Jenn Morris, who has retired from the firm.

Costa Rican officials have not only said Mexican cartels are recruiting and training local criminal groups, but also that there is no beach in the country smugglers haven't been able to use as a stopover point.

Entrepreneurs know that they don't always understand the intricate weave that comprises a country's business culture, including its norms for recruiting, vendor negotiations, lead generation, sales and marketing.