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Internal Transfer & Role Change

A clear reason to move, the mobility policy understood, a shortlist of target teams, internal conversations and interviews handled well, a release date both managers accept and a handover that leaves your reputation intact.

Free · Mac (Apple silicon) and Windows · v1.0.0 · Other platforms

Then open the Marketplace in the app, search for Internal Transfer & Role Change, and click Install. It goes into your own files, and works offline from then on.

What it installs.

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🧭 Career Growth

Internal Transfer & Role Change

Moving to a new team, function or location within the same employer, with internal networking and a smooth handover.

  1. Reading the internal mobility policy properly
  2. Push and pull reasons for wanting to move
  3. Map of teams and functions worth joining
  4. Internal job board alerts and saved searches
  5. Current-role standing check before you apply
  6. Telling your manager you are exploring a move
  7. Talent profile update in the HR system
  8. Internal CV built around known projects
  9. Shortlist of three target roles
  10. Cross-organisation coffee rota
  11. Hiring manager relationship notes
  12. Transfer pipeline tracker
  13. Current-role delivery guard during the search
  14. Quarterly HR partner and skip-level check-ins
  15. Contributions to the target team's work
  16. Talent review and headcount calendar
  17. Weekly internal search time block
  18. Learning the target team's domain
  19. Shadow day with the target team
  20. Function switch crash course
  21. Skills matrix for a function switch
  22. Codebase and tooling walkthrough for engineers
  23. Target organisation's goals and metrics
  24. Interviewing as an internal candidate
  25. Translating your record into the new function's language
  26. Lateral move or level change decision
  27. Pay band conversation for the transfer
  28. Agreeing a release date between two managers
  29. Choosing between two internal offers
  30. Waiting for the next headcount round
  31. Secondment or stretch assignment as a trial
  32. Recovering from a declined internal application
  33. Internal move or external search decision
  34. Internal interview loop for a named role
  35. Announcing the move to your current team
  36. Handover plan for the role you are leaving
  37. Helping hire or train your replacement
  38. Last week in the old team
  39. First months on the new team as an insider
  40. Trial period review after the transfer
  41. Engineer moving between product teams
  42. Engineer moving into platform, SRE or security
  43. Knowledge worker switching function
  44. Moving to another office or site
  45. Redeployment after a reorganisation
  46. Transfer request when the manager is the problem
  47. Returning to a former team
  48. Proposing a role that does not exist yet
  49. Intra-company transfer to an overseas entity
  50. Multi-move internal career map

Where it starts.

Each project arrives with its purpose, milestones and first tasks written out. Here is how the first three read.

Reading the internal mobility policy properly

Most employers set rules for internal moves that nobody reads until an application is rejected: a minimum time in the current role, a recent performance rating, whether your manager must be told before you apply, and how long the old team can hold you after an offer.

First tasks

  • Search the intranet for the internal mobility or transfer policy
  • Check the tenure and performance rating needed to apply
  • Note the exact rule on telling your current manager
  • Email your HR business partner any question the policy leaves open

Push and pull reasons for wanting to move

People who move to escape a team often land in a similar problem one floor up, while people who move toward something specific tend to stay and grow. Writing down what is pushing you out and what is pulling you toward a new team, and testing each reason against whether a move would really fix it, keeps the search honest and gives you a clean answer when a hiring manager asks why.

First tasks

  • Write every reason you want to leave your current team in one list
  • Write what draws you to a different team or function in a second list
  • Mark each reason as fixable where you are or needing a move
  • Draft a two-sentence answer to why you want to move

Map of teams and functions worth joining

Inside a large employer there are usually far more possible destinations than the internal job board shows, and the best moves often go to people who knew a team existed before it advertised. A one-page map of ten to fifteen teams, with what they own, who leads them and whether they are growing, turns a vague wish to move into a set of real options.

First tasks

  • Open the org chart and list teams adjacent to your current work
  • Skim the last two all-hands decks for teams that are growing
  • Note each team's leader, scope and headcount signal in one table
  • Refresh the team map against the latest org chart @recurring(yearly)

Make it yours.

Install Internal Transfer & Role Change, then tell Aurum the date you're aiming for. It checks whether the plan fits the weeks you actually have.

Free · Mac (Apple silicon) and Windows · v1.0.0 · Other platforms

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