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Prairie
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Our policy is to post open positions, both internally and externally. The Department Head is supposed to notify HR when an opening occurs via an "Employee Requisition Form". Recently, an employee resigned and the Department Head decided to promote another employee in the Department. No posting of the open position was done as the "Employee Requisition Form" was not given to HR. There was time to spare, as the resigning employee was not leaving for 2 months. A Board member is objecting to the non-posting. My question is, if anyone out there posts open positions, do you post if there is an internal promotion?
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Big difference is that this is how our job posting policy is written.
Entry level positions
Rotational assignments
Positions created by reassigning job duties within a department (and no new position is created)
Restructuring
Accommodations for expats returning, and folks returning from a guaranteed leave.
In Prairie's situation, because it was a vacancy, and assuming that the newly promoted person's position was going to be filled and not eliminated (leaving this lucky soul to do both jobs
Whether the job was posted or not, at most levels of the organization the promotion would have been reviewed with HR anyway to make sure that the appropriate promotional criteria had been met by the employee.
We do indicate if there is a "strong internal candidate" both internally and on our web site posting. People seem to want to know this up front. I do insist that hiring supervisors interview ALL internal applicants as a courtesy to our staff, even if there is a strong internal candidate. Strong simply means that there is a clear frontrunner for the position, but you really don't know until you post who has what skills to offer.
I've always struggled with what to do when existing positions are reconfigured, that is, duties shuffled around or added, so it was helpful to have someone earlier articulate that if duties are added the position is NOT posted.