So many people are under the impression that if they want to move up the ladder at work they need to push up their sales’ levels and impress the boss. However, it is performance and attitude that is a key to job survival – but even this is sometimes at risk. Some people have had the same job for some time and are now fighting to keep their position no matter how they perform and normally they stand a much better chance at being accepted because they’ve worked at the company for years. Sadly this is a false sense of security especially in this difficult economic climate.

Employees are not only applying internally for other positions but are finding themselves fighting to keep their own jobs as the company downsizes, merges with other companies or invests in smaller international jobs. Even if you have been doing the same job for years with the same company and have to interview for your own job, you still need to treat the internal interview as though you are walking into a completely new company to meet the owner for the very first time. And then, there is not forgetting the newly employed graduates: what happens when the graduates face the prospect of losing their step on that career ladder? Every employee and every graduate face the hard test of internally interviewing for that job, but who will win? Will the company keep the long and trusted employee they have always known or will they now go for the young graduate with fresh new ideas and an eager motivation to add something new to the company. In the end, it all comes down to how each one will interview for their own job internally.

Here are 4 top internal tips that may help in surviving the interview process and keeping your place on the job: [Read more...]

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