In recent weeks the Assistant Director of operations position has opened up in our office and therefore the recruitment and selection process has started. Throughout my studies at GCU I have had many opportunities to become familiar with this process and thus being able to fulfil both IP objective 5: “Relate, in consultation with experienced practitioners, his/her academic studies to the real- life business environment”. And my personal learning contract goal 4: “My goal is to be able to use the academic knowledge such as in my contemporary cultural challenges in international business module in a practical way through the workplace” by putting my knowledge into practice.
When starting the recruitment and selection process it is important to think of both internal and external candidates and who will be the best fit for the position. Through researching this topic, I found a video on tips to follow when applying for an internal promotion (See appendix 1). Furthermore, internal promotion can have many advantages as stated in this article: “The advantage of promotion from within is that your promoted employee is already comfortable with the corporate culture, knows organization policies and will likely get up to speed much faster than a person new to the organization” (Gusdorf, 2008). As Gusdorf states there are many advantages to internal promotion most of which involve convenience and less time plus money in regard to onboarding and training.
However, although internal promotion has many advantages it also comes with disadvantages such as “promotion from within is that the organization loses out on the chance for new ideas and the creativity that can come from a new person entering the organization for the first time” (Gusdorf, 2008). Furthermore, disadvantages which can involve the lack of new creative and experimental ideas that a new employee can bring which is something that an employer must take into consideration when hiring for particular roles, whether this would be a large concern or not.
Appendix 1
References
Gusdorf, M. L. (2008). Recruitment and Selection: Hiring the right person. Society for human resource management , 2.
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