
18 CAMPUS PLACEMENTS: Ensure You Don’t Remain Unplaced
Figure 1.10 Comparison between recruitment cost of a candidate with
irrelevant experience versus promoting an internal resource
• Complete familiarity
with the system
• Highly motivated on
being promoted
• Hits the ground
running
• Still draws a lesser
salary
• Longer gestation period
• No relevant post
qualification experience
• Past baggage
• Higher package
Candidate with
Irrelevant Experience
Internal Resource
will hit the ground running and will be more motivated than the new
employee. After all, he (or she) has been recently promoted and would
be striving hard to prove that the management’