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Secondment?

What does 'Secondment policy applies to internal staff' mean in a job advert?

Sorry if that's a really lame question but have no idea what that is.

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  • It means internal staff applying could be considered for a secondment to the post, rather than switching jobs permanently.
    If you haven't got it - please don't flaunt it. TIA.
  • It means internal staff applying could be considered for a secondment to the post, rather than switching jobs permanently.
    Which means what? If they got the job they can have the other job back once this post ends (in 1 years time)?
  • Which means what? If they got the job they can have the other job back once this post ends (in 1 years time)?

    Yes

    http://www.thefreedictionary.com/secondment
    If you haven't got it - please don't flaunt it. TIA.
  • tanith
    tanith Posts: 8,091 Forumite
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    Yes thats it exactly..they go back to their original job once the secondment ends.
    #6 of the SKI-ers Club :j

    "All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing" Edmund Burke
  • thanks all
  • KiKi
    KiKi Posts: 5,381 Forumite
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    Yep - a secondment is an opportunity to take a role elsewhere for a period of time, whilst your substantive role is still yours, and you go back to it at the end of that time.

    Sometimes a secondment might lead to you being made permanent in that role, or certainly puts you in a better position to apply for it if it becomes permanent.
    ' <-- See that? It's called an apostrophe. It does not mean "hey, look out, here comes an S".
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