The importance of hiring within the organization.

Organizations spend a lot of money on training their staff every year through short-term and long-term programs, such as, college degrees or even the graduate programs. Their justification for spending these money is that they want to retain their talents and give opportunity to their staff. However, only few companies do that when the need arises. Generally, organizations hire, from the outside, people with skills they want when the need arises. The question now becomes: why do they spend money to train their staff, but do not use their skills when they need them? There are two possible answers to this question. Either that the training they receive is in areas they don't need or that their staff leave the company after the training. The second part of the answer shouldn't be correct because organizations generally have agreement with their staff in such a way that they can't leave the company immediately after training. That leaves us with the first part of the answer. It will be good that organizations understand the future of career or the direction things are going so they can they provide training programs for the skills needed and not just provide training which cannot fulfill their needs when they are needed. Why is it important to give the right training and promote within or hire within the organization? First, it shows recognition of your staff who have been with the organization for some time. Second, it increases the workers' morale. Increasing workers' morale is very important because workers are more productive when they are excited and not when they are happy. Increasing workers' morale raises their excitement and motivation. Another benefit of hiring within is that your staff already know the culture and the mission of the organization. You don't need to spend time trying to teach a new employee about your culture and crossing your fingers to see if he or she fits within it. Fourth reason is that hiring from the outside is more expensive than hiring within. In some situations, you need to pay the head hunter or an employment agency to do the search and hiring for the organization. There are other costs related to moving from another city, training and coaching to adapt to the culture of the organization. Hiring within eliminates these extra costs besides increasing workers' morale. Therefore, organizations should think about hiring within as a means of strengthening corporate culture, the mission and vision. They should also see it as a way of recognition to existing employees, who in turn, become more productive. Productivity is what every organization needs in order to survive in a competitive market.