Getting an Open Position within Your Company
ningcontentReprinted courtesy of TheCareerNews.com
DENVER, CO — Many people assume that the job they have currently will not be the job they have when they retire. Many employees assume that they’ll be promoted within a company or take a more lucrative or challenging position outside of it. One of the easiest ways to find a better job is to look around you at one of the open positions within your current company. Employers often like to fill open positions with current employees for several reasons.
First, open positions can be expensive to fill. Advertising the position or paying for a headhunter may be an expense employers do not want to pay. Second, employees within a company have a known history. It’s easier to ask an employee’s supervisor about his or her employment history than to conduct a background check upon a potential candidate whom no one knows.
Finally, training new people to fill open positions may also be expensive and time consuming. It’s much easier to adapt someone who already knows company policy and standards into an open position than it is to train an outsider from scratch.
Article abridged from EmploymentSpot.com, and reprinted from TheCareerNews.com. Get the latest breaking News, Tips and Tools for your job search, Free!
