Internal vs external candidates

Hi Jim,

Thank you for your recent inquiry about how to stand out against internal candidates especially in a unionized environment or in general.

It is important to understand that there is a sequence of activity and thoughts that most companies follow. As mentioned several times before every business exists to make money and as such will try to find the best solutions to do so. Companies will look internally first to see if they can replicate the efforts of a particular person in order to increase overall results as they affect the bottom line. If…