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Jeremy Zawodny moved jobs inside Yahoo recently, and his post about it hit me like a hammer (emphasis mine):

“And on that note, I love the fact that I can move around within Yahoo. Many companies talk about how employees are free to look at internal opportunities, but not all of them make it easy to pursue those opportunities. They throw up lots of barriers, seemingly encouraging their employees to look elsewhere rather than stick around. My experience at Yahoo has shown that mobility is a fact of life. I know of many other coworkers who’ve tried out various roles over the last few years.”

My last job had a “we encourage people to move around inside the company” policy, but I never felt it was really encouraged or practiced well at all, but that may just be my perception. That being said, my perception of that policy did make me look outside rather than inside when it came time to move on.

Congrats Jeremy.