Internal recruitment
What Internal recruitment means in Business GCSE, as defined for AQA, Eduqas, OCR, Pearson Edexcel.
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Reference: AQA
Filling a vacancy with an existing employee, perhaps through promotion or transfer.
Meeting the need by promoting or transferring existing employees.
Promoting or moving existing staff to fill a vacancy.
Filling a job vacancy by appointing someone who already works for the business.
Filling a job vacancy with an existing employee from within the business.
Topics that use Internal recruitment
- Recruitment and selection of employees (AQA GCSE)
- Human resources (Eduqas GCSE)
- Recruitment and selection (OCR GCSE)
- Effective recruitment (Pearson Edexcel GCSE)
Related terms
- External recruitment
- Job description
- Person specification
- Recruitment
- Chain of Command
- Contract of employment
- Cost and efficiency
- Cost and time implications
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