There are advantages and disadvantages to promoting from within your company. On the plus side, when you promote existing employees, you send a positive signal to your entire workforce that there is room for advancement within your company and that management cares about its employees' futures.

Promoting from within is also less costly than recruiting a new employee from the outside. Canfor will save on both recruiting and training costs, and they remove the risk that a new employee won't fit into your company culture. An in-house employee already knows your company's routine.

Although in-house employees have a leg up on company culture, they might not have the skills needed to best fill the open position. For that reason, canfor will base their decision to promote from within or hire from the outside on the kind of expertise they need.

Canfor must be in a crisis because they are looking for ways to develop leaders within the company to ensure loyalty in the tough times to come.

The little I had to do with Canfor was not all good. Tho show you care for your employees is a good thing. It might rub off and set an example as to how to treat others out there.

I worked for Canfor on and off for a long time.
I have no issue with them as such, but the upper reaches are a different can of worms altogether.
I can honestly say that the worst thing about promoting from with-in is the hard feelings and resentment it causes in some of those not chosen.
Someone from "outside" has a better chance of succeeding.
That in itself can cause problems and handicap new recruits and it also adds to the pressure of the job...and trust me,there is LOTS of pressure!

Jobless Scots medics forced out the UK

HAZEL MOLLISON and BILL JACOBS
(hmollison@edinburghnews.com)

SCOTS doctors are being forced to quit the UK by a "shambolic" new NHS training system, medics warned today.

Some of the country's most highly qualified doctors cannot find permanent posts in the NHS and are blaming the bureaucratic new recruitment system.

Among those facing problems are two Edinburgh brothers, who have failed to land jobs despite qualifying from two of the country's leading medical schools.

One of them, Fraser Welsh, is moving to New Zealand after qualifying as a surgeon and then failing to land interviews for dozens of posts.

Edinburgh West MP John Barrett and the British Medical Association (BMA) today called for an urgent reform of the training system, pointing out it costs a quarter of a million pounds to train each junior doctor who quits the NHS.

Thousands of junior doctors are due to start new jobs tomorrow, but thousands more have found themselves stuck in unsuitable temporary work.

The Welsh brothers' parents, Brian and Ann, of Drum Brae, said they were dismayed by what had happened to their sons.

Their eldest, Fraser, 30, a former George Heriot's pupil, studied medicine at Cambridge University and the Royal Free Hospital in London. As well as qualifying as a general surgeon, he has a master's degree from Edinburgh University. But he has failed to find a permanent job in the NHS after looking for almost a year.

He applied for dozens of jobs in the first round of applications in March, but heard nothing. He eventually had an interview in May, but did not get the job.

His father said he was furious at the NHS's treatment of his sons.

Mr Welsh, a retired chartered surveyor, said: "He's a qualified surgeon and he's just got two more years to be a consultant.

"He's not managed to get a training post since September. He's spent almost a year doing temporary locums and fill-ins.

"My wife's very upset. She thinks he'll never come back. She was looking forward to having grandchildren, but now the family is breaking up."


TEMPORARY: Findlay Welsh
Under the widely criticised new system, applicants fill in a form on a computer, but are not able to add more details about their experience. If they get interviewed, they are then given scores for different "competencies", which hospitals are forced to use as the main basis for deciding who gets the job. To add to the crisis, 33,000 junior doctors in the UK have applied for only 18,500 jobs.

The Welsh's younger son, Findlay, 28, is also considering quitting the UK after he completes a temporary post he starts tomorrow at Wishaw General Hospital in Lanarkshire. Mr Welsh said: "Findlay has a job for a year, but there's no certainty. He's thinking about going to Canada or the US."

The family's local MP, Mr Barrett, has written to the Health Minister Alan Johnson.

Mr Barrett said: "The system is an utter shambles. It costs nearly £250,000 to train a doctor and many are saddled with debts."

The BMA said the brothers' situation was not uncommon.

A spokeswoman said: "The reforms have been rushed in and there aren't enough training posts for the number of doctors. We're losing medical talent."

The Scottish Executive has made some changes to the new system, including inviting all candidates to interviews, and have promised to look at the situation again in October.

A Department of Health spokeswoman said: "The new system is not a shambles. If anything, standards of medical training will improve as a result of the implementation of Modernising Medical Careers. In order to progress and qualify, junior doctors will have to meet the required competences at all stages. This is a clear improvement on the previous system, in which there were no national standards and no regular assessment of the competences of junior doctors."

It didnt get to much coverage in the press, but Canfor has just gone through a significant **bloodletting** at their various mills. The guy swinging the axe was Shepard, who is now the permanent rather than **interim** CEO.

After the axe comes the ice cream and cake. All the nice statements, like **We really appreciate how our employees stuck with us and helped us through these tough times** etc; etc; etc; And of course the cock and bull statement that the **Regional Managers stood shoulder to shoulder like the four musketeers** What a line of crap.

This outfit is hell bent to reduce costs and will ultimately privatize the company, which I beleive is the long term strategy of Jim Pattison. Shepard is his hitman.

Beware of geeks bearing gifts.

...actually,during an axe swinging session within a major corporation,the guy swinging the axe is usually the last to go!
Maybe Shepard will be the exception in this farce.