I learned during my working years that many companies list jobs, even though they did not have job openings or they already had someone in mind to fill those jobs.
One reason was to explore the available talent as they worked on prosals for new contracts. They could get a ‘feel’ for how many potential qualified employees were in a particular area.
Another reason was to fulfill state and/national regulations, such as a job had to be posted x number of days to the general public before it could be filled.
“I learned during my working years that many companies list jobs, even though they did not have job openings or they already had someone in mind to fill those jobs.”
B-I-N-G-O
I know for a fact that many companies post their openings for a minimum of two weeks even if they already know who they want to hire or if they’re going to hire at all. A job posting does not equate a legitimate “open” position for which a company is looking to hire an outsider to fill it. This may be a Federal labor thing, I don’t know.
I was out of work for almost a year in 2009. I submitted literally thousands of resumes and would receive a response about every 200 or so. After 10 months I was lucky enough to find a job as a temp employee making 2/3’s what I had been making prior. Spent a year there and then found a regular full-time job making a little more but it was much more stable. Been there three years and now it looks like I’m going to move on to my current employer’s parent company with a healthy raise.
It’s only taken me 4 years to get back to what I was making 8 years ago. But, Hell, plenty others have it worse.