In the past few weeks there have been a number of internal candidates who have been promoted into their former boss’s role
The latest example of this is Tim Tookey, new group FD of Lloyds TSB, but there will be many more over the next few months I am sure. Many of the recruitment processes in which I am involved have at least one internal candidate, and the most I have interviewed as part of a process is five.
Anyone reading this is going to find themselves in this situation at some stage in the future, so I thought I would try to dispel a myth.
As a recruiter, I have no vested interest in who gets the job and that covers both the internal and external candidates. Once we are retained by a client to recruit a role, we are paid for the process, and not the outcome.
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