The awkwardness of hiring internally

Alexandra Gifuni
Workleap
Published in
9 min readOct 29, 2019

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And how I managed to do it successfully and without bias.

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Last year I was given a huge opportunity by my manager. He offered me the chance to evolve from my Technical Writing role to that of a Technical Content Manager. The new role came with the promise of a small but growing team to lead. The plan was this; we’d start off with hiring one full-time Technical Writer, then an intern in Web Development…

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Alexandra Gifuni
Workleap

Technical Content Team Manager by day, avid reader by night — Alexandra likes her writing concise but her literature verbose. We all need balance.