Lateral Hiring, also known as lateral recruitment refers to the recruitment of experienced professionals from the same or similar roles at other organizations, rather than hiring freshers or promoting internally. It targets candidates who can hit the ground running—bringing domain knowledge, skill expertise, and leadership experience into a company without needing extensive onboarding.
Lateral hiring is critical when companies need:
Internal hiring promotes or rotates existing employees. Lateral hiring brings in new talent from outside the company into equivalent roles.
It can be, due to higher salaries and buyouts—but it’s often cost-effective when weighed against time-to-productivity and business urgency.
Culture misfit, lack of long-term loyalty, or overreliance on past systems—but these can be mitigated with structured interviews and onboarding.
With our Interview-as-a-Service model and AI Interview, we help assess domain, behavioral, and leadership fit for lateral roles—at scale.
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