Unfair job process

Fireflyaway

Exact thing happened to me a while back. At one point a totally new position ( with a higher salary) was created and the bosses favourite was given the role. Nobody was even invited to apply! It would be virtually impossible to do anything unless you believe its due to discrimination. Unfortunately there is no law against favouritism.

motorguy

xapprenticex wrote: »

its not what you know, its who you know,

Or what you know about who you know.... :eek:

TBagpuss

They may have felt, as internal candidates, that they had sufficient information and experience of you all that they could make the decison without a further interview. It doesn't ean that they didn't give fair consideration to your application.

Depending on the size and bnature of your organisation, they may also have policies which they have to follow, for instance, some organisations are required to advertise jobs internally and externally even where they already havea preferred candidate. (My sister had to re-apply for her own job a few years ago. Her job is pretty specialalist and the job description was writen with her in mind, but they still had to jump through the hoops of advertising the job, to be allowed to keep her. (they did also try to word the ad to make it so specific that most people would not meet the riteris and would not waste their time applying: At the time she was the only person in the UK with a specific qualification, and the job description and advert specified that that was a required qualification)

TELLIT01

TBagpuss wrote: »

Depending on the size and bnature of your organisation, they may also have policies which they have to follow, for instance, some organisations are required to advertise jobs internally and externally even where they already havea preferred candidate. (My sister had to re-apply for her own job a few years ago. Her job is pretty specialalist and the job description was writen with her in mind, but they still had to jump through the hoops of advertising the job, to be allowed to keep her. (they did also try to word the ad to make it so specific that most people would not meet the riteris and would not waste their time applying

I got caught in that system some years ago. An organisation advertising for somebody with two totally separate skillsets, which I just happened to have. I had implemented systems from scratch for both areas, but still didn't get an interview. I did call the HR department and asked very politely if I would be wrong to assume that they had an internal candidate already, but had to advertise externally? The person I spoke to was very polite in return and simply said something along the lines of "I'm not at liberty to answer that". Had I been wrong the simple answer would have been "No, that is not the case".
Nothing I could do about it - shame as it would have been a great job.:(