[IPAC-List] External Applicants

[Lance Seberhagen]

You already know the obvious reasons. Here is a reason for recruiting 
external applicants (or both external and internal applicants) that may 
not be so obvious.

1.  For political purposes -- to give hope to local residents that the 
economy is improving.  This is done even when there are no actual job 
vacancies to fill.

Early in my career, when I worked for the State of Minnesota many years 
ago, I naively asked why we were still recruiting for certain jobs when 
we were not hiring anyone for those jobs and already had a 3,000 year 
supply of names on our eligible lists for those jobs.  The response I 
got from top management was that we were intentionally recruiting for 
those jobs to give hope to the local community during the economic 
down-turn.

Could it be possible that some Ohio jurisdictions are doing that now?

Signature - Seberhagen & Associates

Lance Seberhagen, Ph.D.
Seberhagen & Associates
9021 Trailridge Ct
Vienna, VA 22182
Tel 703-790-0796
www.seberhagen.com *
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On 10/11/2012 10:56 AM, Dennis Doverspike wrote:

> Does anyone have a good list of reasons they would like to share for: The

> advantages of allowing applicants from outside the organization versus

> allowing only internal or promotional applicants.

>

> Dennis Doverspike

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