As dean, Mr. Kagan championed hard sciences, rigorous hiring standards for faculty, and the protection of free speech.

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Without lowering our minimum hiring standards, we needed to identify those applicants with a high level of relationship-building skills.

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However, given their work rules and hiring standards, I would love to see a comparison of their IQ scores to those of the postal workers.

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For if he were to take an exclusionary, elitist tact towards admissions or hiring policies at his public university (aside from established, legitimate admission and hiring standards), the legal services industry in Columbus would explode with lawsuit after lawsuit.

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Through our rigorous hiring and training standards we have adopted, our officers are set apart from the norm.

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Ask anyone: managers, recruiters and job applicants are all unhappy with the current standards in hiring.

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Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto has enacted a major reform of the education system that includes new standards for hiring teachers.

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Remember, they might have to go on a legal and accounting hiring binge if they expect to enforce their higher standards.

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Nardelli has also toughened Chrysler's quality standards, making senior engineers responsible and hiring a "chief customer officer"--an industry first--to monitor quality assurance and be an advocate for the buyer.

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Despite three months of strong job creation between March and May, hiring ebbed in June and the proportion of Americans participating in the labour market remains pretty weak by historical standards.

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