Job seekers might find a new job opportunity at their old company, explains KathrynDill WSJWhatsNow
when she left in June 2020. But the project manager wanted to work on offshore-wind projects, and WSP didn’t have any of those roles at the time. Another engineering firm did. Her new boss also accommodated Ms. Hallas, 32 years old, when she returned to work in January 2021 after the birth of a child and wanted to work part-time for a while.
“It felt like a step forward professionally, even though it was going back to an old company,” said Ms. Hallas, who returned to WSP at the end of November. LinkedIn has embraced its own boomerangs this year, with the site doubling the number of new hires who were also former employees compared with 2019. The company has long leveraged its alumni network as a source for hiring and referrals, maintaining an active group for former employees on its platform and extending referral bonuses to alumni. This fall, LinkedIn more deliberately targeted ads for new roles at that group and has actively encouraged alums to return.
“People who know your culture and have been a part of it who might have gone somewhere else but come back is an important message,” she said.
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