What does it mean if a job is a in-house position?

Question

What does it mean if a job is a in-house position?

Answer 1

This role is carried out by staffers within the company already.

This is for various reasons, mostly they have the talent already to pool from and don't see value in going external, or it is a job that can only be performed by someone already exposed to company procedures, case files, company knowledge etc..

Most large companies operate like this, it is quite common.

If no-one applies for the role, or they can't fill it otherwise internally, that is when they will go external/public.

Answer 2

They want to hire someone who already works for them, they are not hiring anyone from outside.

Answer 3

It means that the person getting the job will be an employee.

Answer 4

There are two senses in which this is used in the Law.

Firstly, an in-house lawyer is one who does legal work for the company he/she is employed by.

Many larger companies that have a lot of legal work will employ a lawyer rather than sending all the work out to a law firm.

Usually some work would still be sent out-of-house, but that depends on the company.

The other sense in which the term 'in-house' is used is where a law firm has a position of 'in house counsel.'   This is usually in places that have a fused profession (where solicitors have the same appearance rights as barristers)  That job involves being counsel for the clients of that law firm, rather than doing the solicitors work on their files.