How to use short-term opportunities to increase internal mobility and drive employee engagement

What are short-term opportunities?

Short-term opportunities come in many different shapes and sizes — from mentorships to gigs, short-term projects, and swat teams. Put simply, these are opportunities that fall outside of the realm of an official job requisition and are sourced internally from your existing workforce.

There’s a rise of innovative companies now using short-term opportunities to create flexibility in their workforces and promote internal mobility to easily deploy their people to where they’re needed most, whilst giving their employees more career opportunities and diversity in their jobs. 

The benefits of short-term opportunities for your people and your business:

• Enhancing internal mobility and unlocking capacity; short-term opportunities remove silos, increase cross-collaboration, and redeploy talent to where they are needed most.
• Increasing workforce agility; you quickly respond to rapid shifts in strategy and goals by instantly standing up project teams.
• Driving employee engagement; leaders can now give employees access to career development opportunities and projects that match their interests across multiple departments.
• Unlocking employee knowledge and skills; short-term opportunities help you tap into the knowledge that you already have hiding in your business, and create diverse teams that will help drive business outcomes.

The challenge facing large-scale organizations

The business case for short-term opportunities is clear but the challenge facing many executives and HR leaders is finding a scalable way to create and manage short-term opportunities and get the word out to internal talent who would be a perfect fit.

Without an efficient, smart way to connect skills and opportunities internally to a range of opportunities, leaders put themselves at risk of losing skills they could’ve utilized, and wasting the potential of their people. 

A lack of connection affects your employees just as much. 

Often employees lack visibility over the opportunities that are available within their workplace. This can be due to organizations and departments relying on relationship-based sourcing for anything outside of official roles, or non-official roles just being offered to the people in the same departments.

Then what happens? Your employees miss out on opportunities they’re interested in — and could be perfect fits for — because they weren’t in the right place at the right time.

How Reejig’s Opportunity Marketplace connects you with the skills you need inside your business

Reejig’s Opportunity Marketplace is your space to post, track, and fill opportunities of any kind across your organization.

We help you unearth the skills that already exist inside your talent ecosystem, helping you find hidden talent and prioritize internal candidates for every open opportunity you have. And we do it quickly — with instant ecosystem matching to the skills you note that you’re looking for. That way, you can unlock the skills already existing inside your workforce, lower recruitment costs, and get people into the right roles faster.

How does Opportunity Creation work? 

With short-term Opportunity Creation, users can create non-role-based opportunities directly within Reejig and automatically find great matches within your organization who have the skills, experience, and potential you need. 

With the option to choose what kind of short-term opportunity you’re advertising, the skills you need, and how long it goes for, you can set up a 6-week project like you would an official role and get it in front of the right people quickly. 

Ensure your people see your new opportunities, too

Reejig’s Career Co-Pilot lets your people self-navigate their own careers with access to a personalized Opportunity Marketplace. Your people can access and apply for new projects and short-term roles directly from Career Co-Pilot as you announce them, as well as traditional internal positions.

Everyone in your internal ecosystem who matches the skills and experience you’re looking for will be communicated with at once, no long company announcements or pin boards needed. 

Not only does this bring them empowerment over their future with you, but it also brings the opportunities you have straight in front of the people you need. That means you’ll find your talent match sooner while increasing retention and mobility.

Want to bring your people their next opportunity? 

Get in touch with the Reejig team today to find out more about how Opportunity Creation works, and how you can create opportunities for any project, any timeline, and any skill with Reejig.