What is internal staffing?
Internal staffing means filling vacancies in the company with employees who are already employed, rather than recruiting external candidates. This approach leverages existing knowledge, shortens onboarding times, and promotes internal career paths.
Advantages of internal staffing:
- Shorter time-to-hire: Employees are already familiar with the corporate culture and processes
- Lower costs: No expenses for external job advertisements or headhunters
- Increased employee retention: Internal career opportunities increase motivation and loyalty
- Better cultural fit: Personality and way of working are already known
- Lower risk of wrong appointments: Performance and competencies are documented
Practical example: How Lisa fills positions internally
Lisa, the personnel officer, has the task of filling a new position. In order to shorten the onboarding process, she wants to focus on internal staffing and actively approach suitable candidates. The job requires specific skills, and Lisa wants to make sure that the job posting reaches all potential candidates.
Lisa makes a list of the tasks that should be taken over by the new job. Based on this list, Lisa creates a competence profile in the Competence Management module in Evalea. To do this, she simply selects the required competencies from her competence catalog in Evalea and inserts them into the profile. In addition, it adds two more competencies to the profile that were not previously available in the catalog.
For each competency, it then defines a target value that defines how strong this competence should be. After she has coordinated the competence profile again with the specialist department, she starts looking for it using the report Fit to Competence Profile. This shows her directly several employees who fit the new profile internally and she can address them specifically.
As soon as the new employee has been selected, she is assigned the new competence profile and can formulate a development plan together with Lisa to close existing gaps.
Modules used in Evalea
Steps to define the project
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Analyze tasks:
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Define skills needs:
Translation of tasks into competencies and their required characteristics
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Finding and selecting suitable employees:
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Closing the gaps:
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