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Fri, 4 Dec 2009

"Savvy businesses" recognise internal promotion potential

"Savvy businesses" are increasingly looking internally when it comes to making promotions, it has been suggested.

Clever small firms are increasingly seeing the potential of internal candidates when it comes to making promotions, a sector commentator has suggested.

Sally Toumi, managing director of UK recruitment consultancy Stark Brooks, explains that many enterprises used to look externally when it came to hiring management-level individuals.

However, she states more and more firms are now beginning to recognise that they may not be able to find the candidate with the right experience, qualifications and skills outside their organisation.

As such, they are starting to look internally and are giving people within their own enterprises the first chance to fill the available roles.

Ms Toumi says she does not believe this to be a result of the current turbulence in the financial markets, but that given the ongoing effects of the global credit crunch, it is something that may become a practice that is more commonplace.

"I think savvy businesses are the ones who have been applying that policy for some time," she concludes.

Ms Toumi's comments follow the publication of the Workplace Motivation Report, which was commissioned by T-Mobile, written by psychologist Honey Langcaster-James and conducted among more than 1,000 British employees by Ipsos MORI.

Published on October 15, it suggested that workers like to be surrounded by upbeat and enthusiastic personalities and do not feel motivated by colleagues who spend time making flippant comments and joking around.

It said people with Davina McCall levels of enthusiasm are good for lifting spirits in the office, while David Brent-style clowns would not be of benefit.

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