How to Uncover internal candidates

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Uncover internal candidates

How many times have you spent hours, days, or weeks working on a requisition only to experience the frustration of an internal candidate being hired? It's happened to all of us, so you need to be able to determine when to work on a requisition where there is an internal candidate and when to walk away. Losing out to an internal candidate is just as frustrating for in-house recruiters as it is for recruiters who work for a staffing or recruiting firm. The challenge is that most companies don't know whether an internal candidate will apply.

Some companies post positions internally first and then they post them on their websites, but don't begin the hiring process until they see what resumes they receive. Resumes are given to their in-house recruiters, who then screen the candidates and present them to the hiring manager. In theory this process gives no advantage to the internal candidates. When or if the position is shared with an external depends on the quality of the candidates they surface on their own.

As a recruiter you know that's not really true.


Source: https://www.linkedin.com/learning/align-recruiting-with-job-requirements/uncover-internal-candidates