Want a new position, but don't want to leave your current employer? Where do you start? First, learn more about what is going on both inside and outside your company. Keep abreast to what's happening in your industry, the marketplace, and your company. It's important to maintain your marketability, whether you're leaving or staying. So keep learning and growing.

To conduct an organized internal job search, use the following tips: 

• Focus on three or more departments, divisions, or businesses

• Research those departments, divisions, or businesses

• Build relationships with 4 to 6 people in each area

• Find out how those functions are performed in other companies

• Perhaps take that information back to your present employer

• Develop the skills you need to make yourself marketable in those departments, divisions, or businesses. 

Staying marketable and keeping in touch with your network is how most people get jobs. The same applies to a job with your present employer.

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