In order to keep our employees engaged, we must go beyond skills gap training by creating an environment where they are appreciated, encouraged and actively sought after by internal leaders, as opposed to just our external recruiters, hiring managers, and contemporaries. We must create an internal war for talent, a fierce company competition in order to retain and expect the best from our managers as well as our best employees.

By taking the war for talent internal, we encourage higher performance because employees know there are more options for their career development within your organization. The chance to become a leader within the organization is for the taking. Creating a competitive internal talent marketplace focused on developing an employee’s career at a single organization – instead of going through the motions like we often do with the employee – is the smart move because a little healthy competition is a very, very good thing.

Sport psychologists have demonstrated for years the effects of competition on enhancing performance. Think about the Olympics where world records are broken in competition as others push you further than you ever have performed before.

Taking the war for talent and competition internal won’t be easy. You’ll loose some B players as they realize that average is no longer enough. Managers will resist and employees too because the competitive marketplace brings out the best and worst in people, but maybe it’s the type of organizational and culturally cleansing your company really needs.

Jessica Miller-Merrell, SPHR is a workplace and technology strategist specializing in social media.  She’s an author who writes at Blogging4Jobs, Huffington Post and Smart Brief. When she talks, people listen.

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This week, we’ve added an easier way to manage payments for recruiting services in SmartRecruiters with a new business account.

Your Business Account

Instead of using your credit card to purchase job boards, candidate databases, or other services, we will send you a single invoice for all purchases made in your company account each month. Your business account is a new Payment Method in Account Settings that allows you to charge purchases in the Store to your account.

Flexible Payment Options

If you have multiple cost centers or departments, we can provide you with a business account for each one to track purchases against your budget. You can share an account with multiple users, and once added, they can charge purchases in the store to your company. Users can also have access to additional business accounts or credit cards to make purchases.

Apply Today

If your company spends at least $5000 a month on recruiting services in SmartRecruiters and has a credit card on file, we can quickly activate this option in your account. Go to Payment Methods in Account Settings and select Invoice to apply.

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