internal and external recruitment in an organisation and what are its advantages and disadvantagse?

Question

this question is related to human resource management and it deals with need of employee in any organization.

Answer 1

Look First at In-house Candidates
Providing promotional and lateral opportunities for current employees positively boosts morale and makes your current staff members feel their talents, capabilities, and accomplishments are appreciated. Always post positions internally first. Give potential candidates an interview. It's a chance for you to know them better. They learn more about the goals and needs of the organization. Sometimes, a good fit is found between your needs and theirs.

Recruiting within the Organization

Benefits of a promotion-from-within policy:
Capitalizes on past investments (recruiting, selecting, training, and developing) in current employees.
Rewards past performance and encourages continued commitment to the organization.
Signals to employees that similar efforts by them will lead to promotion.
Fosters advancement of members of protected classes within an organization.

Limitations of a promotion-from-within policy:
Current employees may lack the knowledge, experience or skills needed for placement in the vacant/new position.
The hazards of inbreeding of ideas and attitudes (“employee cloning”) increase when no outsiders are considered for hiring.
The organization has exhausted its supply of viable internal candidates and must seek additional employees in the external job market.

Recruiting from outside the organisation

Benefits:
Candidate can bring in new methods/policies/syles which might be a good fit to the co.
Diversity of candidates available for interviews
An independent way of looking at how things are done in the co. Sometimes things are done because they've always been done like that. A new person may question this legitimately and bring about improvements

Limitations:
Inability to fit in due to culture clash
Inability to adapt to change and insistence on doing what he has been doing in his previous co.