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Streamline the Internal Hiring Process

Unlock a key candidate source and facilitate internal talent mobility by optimizing your internal hiring process.

  • Organizations remain fixated on external talent, often to the exclusion of internal talent – only 28% of talent acquisition (TA) leaders believe that internal candidates are an important source of talent (Cappelli, 2019).
  • There are three main barriers to internal hiring: a lack of formal process, poor communication of opportunities, and limiting mindsets from managers and employees.

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Critical Insight

  • The core responsibility for facilitating internal hiring lies with TA. Without a streamlined process, internal talent mobility (ITM) will be limited.

Impact and Result

  • Integrate internal hiring best practices into the TA process to remove people and process barriers.
  • Develop and share internal hiring guidelines to communicate the importance of ITM to employees and people leaders.
  • Create a comprehensive communication strategy that continually delivers key messages at the right time.

Streamline the Internal Hiring Process Research & Tools

1. Plan to improve ITM

Assess the current ITM landscape to set project objectives and metrics and map the current TA process.

Streamline the Internal Hiring Process Storyboard
Streamline the Internal Hiring Process Executive Briefing
HR Metrics Library
Internal Hiring Workbook
Process Mapping Guide
Case Studies: Streamline the Internal Hiring Process

2. Define the internal hiring process

Work through a series of decision points related to the five stages of internal hiring: requisition, awareness, application, assessment, and follow up.

3. Prepare to launch the new internal hiring process

Create internal hiring guidelines and incorporate internal hiring decisions into the TA process, then launch of the process.

Internal Hiring Guidelines Template
Avoiding Talent Hoarding Infographic
Internal Hiring Process Flowchart

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McLean & Company is an HR research and advisory firm providing practical solutions to human resources challenges via executable research, tools, diagnostics, and advisory services that have a clear and measurable impact on your business.

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Guided Implementation 1: Plan to improve ITM
  • Call 1: Review the current ITM landscape, discuss the current internal hiring process, and identify barriers.
  • Call 2: Discuss focus group feedback and set high-level objectives and metrics.

Guided Implementation 2: Define the internal hiring process
  • Call 1: Discuss decisions made at the decision points at each of the five stages of internal hiring.

Guided Implementation 3: Prepare to launch the new internal hiring process
  • Call 1: Review internal hiring guidelines and incorporation of internal hiring decisions into the TA process.
  • Call 2: Discuss an implementation plan and tactics to integrate the process change.

Contributors

  • Natasha Bennett, Director, Talent & Organizational Development, Hydro One
  • Dr. Matthew Bidwell, Associate Professor of Management, The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
  • Kate Brodock, CEO, Women 2.0
  • Christine Calvert, Manager, Recruitment, Shaw Communications
  • Dr. Peter Cappelli, Professor of Management, The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
  • Chuck Csizmar, Principal, CMC Compensation Group
  • Jim D’Amico, Global Talent Acquisition Leader, Celanese
  • Dr. Jed DeVaro, Professor, Department of Management, California State University East Bay
  • Robert Dick, Senior Manager Talent Acquisition, Providence Health & Services
  • Michael Goldberg, Founding Partner, Strong Tower Partners
  • David Hayden, L&D Consultant, CIPD
  • Leslie Weigle, Principle Consultant, Integrated Talent Management, Providence St. Joseph Health

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