Best case scenario, HR is setting up fake jobs to make it look like an internal transfer or promotion was actually competetive.
Worst case scenario, they’re just doing it to pad the numbers of ‘how many new positions we’re looking to fill = we are growing rapidly!’ Stupid shsreholders might buy that.
Super duper worst case scenario, its all a data mining operation on the pool of potential employees… the company is so fucked it has to essentially contract itself out to market research firms.
Those are my 3 guesses.
Your particular situation makes #1 seem unlikely… thats waaay too much man hours devoted to interviews, when the company itself is bleeding out employees.
In fact your company’s situation is so fucking bad that I’d lean toward #3.
Which would mean the entire company is now essentially a fake/scam company that mostly exists as an ostensibly legit front for data harvesting, presuming it was at one point an actual company that actually did… something.
I would be entirely unsurprised if it turns out that, through a series of shell companies, LinkedIn is behind this, just cannibalizing its own real asset, its userbase, as they already know its curtains for them.
Best case scenario, HR is setting up fake jobs to make it look like an internal transfer or promotion was actually competetive.
Worst case scenario, they’re just doing it to pad the numbers of ‘how many new positions we’re looking to fill = we are growing rapidly!’ Stupid shsreholders might buy that.
Super duper worst case scenario, its all a data mining operation on the pool of potential employees… the company is so fucked it has to essentially contract itself out to market research firms.
Those are my 3 guesses.
Your particular situation makes #1 seem unlikely… thats waaay too much man hours devoted to interviews, when the company itself is bleeding out employees.
In fact your company’s situation is so fucking bad that I’d lean toward #3.
Which would mean the entire company is now essentially a fake/scam company that mostly exists as an ostensibly legit front for data harvesting, presuming it was at one point an actual company that actually did… something.
I would be entirely unsurprised if it turns out that, through a series of shell companies, LinkedIn is behind this, just cannibalizing its own real asset, its userbase, as they already know its curtains for them.
Definitely not a fake company, have made a dent in the administrative side of healthcare spaces, but #3 seems plausible.
Another place I worked would do it semi-related to #1 with regards to sponsoring visas - but I never asked too many questions, just in case.