I feel like job boards should phase out companies that have a record of posting jobs they're not actually hiring for because "HR says we have to before we can hire from within."

Why is that even a policy to begin with‽ Hiring from within first instead of making a song and dance about "trying to" hire from without just feels like companies being allergic to internal promotion out of abject terror that an official new title will have to come with a raise or some other benefits that are still cheaper than getting some whole new worker.

[–] MasterBlaster@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Actually, I think you got that wrong. Generally they hire from within first.

They post jobs they don't intend to offer so they can justify hiring an H-1b to the frleds... "See? We posted the job for months and nobody was able to fill it"

[–] Vode_An@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

It sounds like whichever agency is responsible for enforcing the law against fraudulent jobs listing is really slacking. Or more likely it’s never been considered a priority. It should be though, fraudulent listings waste the time of people searching for employment and probably need a job sooner rather than later.

[–] pthaloblue@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago

Definitely a question worth an interrobang. I never understood the "we need to pretend follow the law so we can break it" policy

[–] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

HR is a scourge upon this cursed earth.

Nice punctuation.

[–] jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

It's based on a really bad/incorrect interpretation of equal opportunity employment law. Once upon a time I work for a company where if they wanted to promote you, they would post the job internally and externally. Then, a VP would pull you into a room and say something like "You should really think about applying for this position. Do you understand what I'm telling you? You should really really think really hard about applying for this job."

If you applied for it, they would conduct a series of [sham] interviews and then just hire the person they intended to promote to begin with. If you didn't apply, you would be deemed "ungrateful" and forced out. Oddly enough, they had a similar practice for company vehicles. If they wanted you to have a company vehicle, which just meant they could monopolize more of your free time, they would bring you a set of keys like, "This is your now. Drive it." It was never a request. More of a directive. And you couldn't say no or there would be consequences.

Pretty much exactly the kind of place that would feel the need to pretend to follow federal employment law and generate lots of paperwork demonstrating how thoroughly they're pretending to follow it.