Just want to point out that this is unfair to the internal candidate too. The boss is basically saying, I know you can do the job and have put in the time. But I still wanna check to see if I can get a better candidate, just in case, you understand.
Never waste resentment on your rivals when your owners are right there.
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Or you work a state job and your supervisor is forced to do a search instead of promoting from within.
You have it backwards. Companies always choose the unknown new person over the qualified internal candidate and give the new employee a much higher salary.
You’re both wrong. Neither gets hired so they can h1-b visa someone and hold their ability to be in the US hostage while underpaying them.
No, they, employ the child of a board member.
No, they hire nobody and pretend they’re hiring so shareholders perceive them as successful and growing. The work from that role gets distributed among the employees who are still working there, eventually leading them all to work 70-80 hours a week and feel like they’re doing 3 jobs at once the entire time.
All of the best employees left, or those who don’t have sick family members or their own “pre existing conditions” so the company is left overworking under-performers and mediocre employees who couldn’t get hired elsewhere, or who are severely burned out trying to afford their wife’s chemo
In my experience, it is truly usually the case that they have a specific internal person in mind for the role, but HR/legal policies require that the listing be opened to outside applicants.
It’s an effort to combat nepotism and promote equal opportunity employment. But employers don’t often hire outside when an internal candidate is an option just because there is less onboarding to do before that employee can be made productive.
That’s a good company.
