JOHN QUINONES , 36
MSILR ’01
Director, Talent Acquisition,
McGraw-Hill Companies

John Quinones was midway through his six-year stint at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York when he received his Master of Science in Industrial and Labor Relations degree from Baruch. At the time, he was manager of college recruitment and had already worked as an EEO officer and senior human resources representative at the New York Public Library, hiring staff for the city’s prestigious research libraries and administration.

Already a success in his chosen field of human resources, why then did he choose to go back to school? “On one level, I wanted to prove that I could do it,” says Quinones, who received his BA in industrial and organizational psychology at Moravian College. Because he already had a considerable amount of work responsibility, he felt he needed to complement it academically. He was looking for a program in human relations, and he liked Baruch’s program because it was designed for working professionals.

Helping people in their careers runs in Quinones’s family: his father was a headhunter. “I grew up hearing him talk about the kinds of jobs that people were interviewing for, jobs I didn’t even know about,” he recalls.

“But I’ve preferred working on the corporate side, being in-house. I like seeing people develop and contribute. My decisions help shape the rest of their careers. It’s an intoxicating part of the job."

—Peter Kobel

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