For internal transfers — do you tell your current boss before you start talking to another manager about the role on their team, or after you have been made an offer to join the new team?

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I would be careful, as I’ve seen managers react if they feel out of the loop. I’d talk to my manager first to establish my desire to transfer internally. Then I’d contact the person that would be your new if you were to switch. That way you have a good chance of catching them before your current manager can influence their first impression of you.

I know this sounds paranoid, but I’ve seen negative outcomes of these processes before.

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Usually there should be a policy from the HR on how to proceed.

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Just meet the new manager for a coffee. Ask them anything that is important for you to decide whether you’d like the role. If you don’t want the role after all you didn’t create a hassle that wasn’t needed

Edit: when I decided to apply internally and things were moving I did tell my manager, before the interview was even scheduled

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I did it after it was reasonably likely to go ahead.

Depends on how your boss will react, and who the new manager needs to talk to for their side of making it happen.

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When I moved to my current role I made HR handle everything. They told my previous boss I was leaving in two weeks.

I may do that again, or I may bring it up after a job offer.

There is no reason to tell them too soon if you don’t end up getting a job offer.

I agree with the other response, check your HR policy.

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Lesson learned, I told a manager after I had a strong inclination that an offer would be made, but BEFORE I received a written offer. He freaked out. New position would be a promotion for me. It’s now been frozen and I’m stuck in my current role with tensions. But I don’t think talking to the mgr before I pursued this new role would not change much - he would just talk me out of applying for this new role…

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Proceed with Caution in telling your manager. I told my manager, I was applying for XYZ role on XYZ team at our company and had informally met with a manager in the dept.

I was retaliated against in the form of ambiguous performance callouts (non-existent prior to that convo with my manager - same work) , micromanaging, and HUNDREDS of manual system updates. I was also told I was not performing well in my current role, so they won’t support me transferring- my performance review 3 months prior and emails tell a diff story.

Okay- I decided to take matters into my own hands and meet with recruitment over an open role. My manager saw us meeting and is now treating me like shittt!!! But I didn’t trust to tell her, based on the result of when I did before.

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