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[โ€“] all4one@lemmy.zip 41 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I finally got to experience this from the inside. I was on the team that interviewed people to back fill my position after I was promoted. We didn't interview 1 external candidate. Promoted someone from below and then hired a new entry level person. We realized our internal hire has less experience, but they were the safe fast option that could get started right away.

[โ€“] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 55 points 1 year ago

It's so, so frustrating that so many places require a job to be posted even when there's an internal candidate and it's already been decided. I work in government where we're often hard-required to post all jobs and it sucks to see so many people applying for a job when I know they absolutely will not be considered for the role.

In my experience, a majority of job postings are essentially fake because it's already been decided, and I hate it.