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Growth Opportunities vs. Expanding the Talent Base

May 16, 2007 7:49 pm

Growth Opportunities vs. Expanding the Talent Base

Tom Adam

I'd like to hear the group's thoughts on a matter often on my mind. How does a company balance providing growth opportunities for existing employees with the need to upgrade and expand the talent base? Good companies will provide ways for employees to grow their careers through movement into other departments, other disciplines, etc. However, when you fill an open position with an existing employee there has been no net growth in the talent pool within the company; you have the same people, just in different roles. Yes, their old position needs to be backfilled, and that may very well be with an external candidate, but are we then simply playing a zero-sum game in that we're bringing in an employee with, at most, the same skill level as the person they're replacing?

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