In the event that insourcing is necessary, these skilled resources are critical to establishing job requirements for internal recruiting and setting up the internal operation.

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Departing bosses can play a big role in recruiting internal successors.

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The Army has reached its monthly recruiting goals so far this year, but an internal memo obtained by NPR says that the Army could be short as many as 7, 000 recruits by the end of the year.

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