Q.What are the internal sources of recruitment? Explain any two of their advantages and two of their disadvantages.

Internal sources fill a vacancy from the organisation's own existing workforce, which brings real benefits alongside real limitations.

The internal sources of recruitment are:

1. Transfers — moving an employee to another job of a broadly similar level, pay, and status, often in a different department or location.
2. Promotions — moving an employee to a position of higher responsibility, status, and pay within the same organisation.
3. Re-employment of ex-employees — recalling former employees who left in good standing when a suitable vacancy reopens.

Two advantages:

• Motivates existing employees to improve their performance, since they see a genuine chance of being promoted or transferred to a better position.
• Cheaper and quicker than external recruitment — there is no advertising or agency cost, and the pool of candidates is already known and available.

Two disadvantages:

• Limits the scope for fresh talent and new ideas, since the same set of existing employees is repeatedly considered for higher posts. …

Listing only "promotion" as the sole internal source and forgetting transfer and re-employment of ex-employ …