Don’t Try This Alone: Internal Mobility
Hiring from within is a great idea. Actually, scratch that, it’s an amazing idea. The wonderful people that are so crucial to the success of our businesses will thank us for it, and so will the CFO when retention soars as a result.
That said, it’s not something that should be done all by ourselves. We need some sweet tech to support and guide our efforts. Let’s go over some of the absolutely essential advantages to utilizing a comprehensive internal mobility solution.
We humans are biased.
Internal hiring has to be done fairly, or else people will throw up a peace sign and head out the door anyway.
As much as we all like to believe we’re living life completely bias-free, we’re not. Everyone has unconscious biases that can have a negative impact on hiring, especially when we’re talking about promotions. Any good internal mobility tool will anonymize candidates, eliminating the possibility of favoritism and ensuring that they’re judged solely on the basis of their skills.
Technology can handle stuff we straight up can’t.
Depending on the size of our organizations, we might have hundreds or even thousands of roles to fill at any given time. Carefully matching each open job to potential internal candidates is going to zap a ton of time and energy from our already-busy recruiters. That’s to say nothing of the daunting task that is personally moving all of the necessary information between systems.
With a workload like that, there are bound to be perfect fits that go totally overlooked and completely unconsidered. Internal mobility tech can take care of all the matching and migrating in a heartbeat, especially when integrated with an ATS and/or HRIS. Compared to the manual technique, it’s lightning fast, super easy, and utterly thorough.
Employees can give systems the full, honest truth.
Here’s the thing: the power dynamic at play in a conversation with a boss or HR scares people away from genuinely speaking their mind.
However unfounded our workers’ fears are, they will tell us what they think we want to hear. This face-to-face version of the truth, crafted with caution, is probably not going to paint a complete and candid picture of their real goals and desires.
An internal mobility solution will provide our people with an outlet to share this information without any pressure or worry. They will have an opportunity to be heard, and we will better understand what they really want out of their careers.
All in all, these are some pretty massive benefits to working with internal mobility technology. We would go with a simple, elegant, fully integrated solution like WORQDRIVE, but hey, that’s just us.