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Notes Signals to employees that career opportunities exist in organization
Improve employee morale and organization loyalty
Lower costs for some jobs

Less likely to make major changes and upset the apple cart
Disadvantages

The method of internal recruitment suffers from certain disadvantages. These are:

Narrowing of thinking and stale ideas (inbreeding)
May not help turn company around
Training will be needed and learning curve will occur for the job duties

Internal politics will occur (e.g., possible discontent of rejected applicants; new subordinates
discount new boss’ knowledge and expect special treatment; etc.)
Difficult to do with rapid growth

Affirmative action goals may be more difficult to achieve
Ripple effect
Smaller talent pool/fewer applicants

5.4.4 Advantages and Disadvantages of External Recruitment

Advantages

Some of the advantages of making recruitment from outside sources are as follows:
Provides new ideas/fresh perspectives
May bring new insights from other industries

Initiate a turnaround
Hiring experienced employee can reduce training needed
Internal politics may be avoided (e.g., less upsetting to present organizational hierarchy)

Allows rapid growth
Increase diversity
Only hire at one level

Disadvantages

This method also suffers from certain disadvantages. These are as follows:
Less information available on applicants
Search takes longer and costs more

Outsider takes time to become familiar with current systems and organization culture
Destroys incentive of present employees to strive for promotion

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