Scenario;
Person is job hunting. Fortunately employed currently but dissatisfied at work. Reaches out to contacts in their industry and finds out about a company that’s been bought by a large international company that’s restructuring and jobs are being created. One of which is perfect for person.
They have a Teams interview with head of the acquired company which goes well then a week later goes to the workplace and everyone is happy. Head of company then contacts person saying they need to go to parent company and get the potential package and salary approved. Two weeks later person
is told that it’s been given the go ahead, a job spec now has to be written up and that will be emailed for person to look through.
Two weeks have passed and after chasing up the Head of acquired company has said that it’s parent company protocol that the job has to be advertised on the website as a live job and that person has to formally apply for it.
Does this sound like standard policy or does anyone else think it’s starting to sound like nonsense and it’s basically a recruitment drive to get more applicants to pick from. So what sounded like a ‘yes you have the job’ conversation is no longer that?