Internal job posting procedures?

[Handie Andy]

I will cut traight to the point on this one.

Job posting was put up in work a few week ago for section leader, i am interested in this position but i knew one was coming up on the contract i am currently working on. 3 people applied for the one position and all had good interviews apparently, now the company has opened up another two posts and filled them just as quick with the previous 3 applicants.

One of them positions now filled is one that i would of applied for so now i am pissed off with the whole affair!. Especially seen as tho the guy who filled it is currently a temp.

Would i be correct in thinking that this is abit of a dirty trick and the posting should be put back up? Bearing in mind that it wasn't made aware to all employees what was happening! I have spoken at supervisor level and basically thats the info i got from him above.

[edc]

There are no must do procedures in posting jobs. Your best course of action is most likely to lodge a formal grievance. This may prompt the company to investigate their own procedure. It is no guarantee to overturn the decision though.

[Countdown]

Tbh it makes sense from the company's point of view. They've got two candidates who appear to be suitable - why go through all the hassle of advertising/shortlisting/interviewing again?

To answer your question - unless the company has a policy for advertising all vacancies openly I don't think you have much recourse.

[davepoth]

So you're pissed off about not getting a job that you didn't apply for? There's a moral in there somewhere.

[Handie Andy]

Countdown said:

Tbh it makes sense from the company's point of view. They've got two candidates who appear to be suitable - why go through all the hassle of advertising/shortlisting/interviewing again?

To answer your question - unless the company has a policy for advertising all vacancies openly I don't think you have much recourse.

From what i hear there is such a procedure its just like most things only when it suits. There wasnt really any shortlisting or anything like i said 3 people went for 1 position then it became 3. I think it got to me more the fact that i have done the job on many occasions last time being last friday, but yet it seems more suitable to train a temp how to do a job that someone ie me and 2 others can already do?. Im a year into the contract with alround know how as opposed to a 4 month temp on a totally diffrent contract, system and set up

davepoth said:

So you're pissed off about not getting a job that you didn't apply for? There's a moral in there somewhere.

No im pissed off for not getting an oppurtunity to apply for a job that we wasn't made aware of and now been filled. After all we do have an internal posting board that seemed to be skipped this time round.

[edc]

Look at it from another point of view. The reason a company advertises a job is to attract candidates with the relevant experience to fill the job. If you have a bank of people, who you may have qualified to some degree, then there is no need to do that. Succession planning works in a similar way. People don't apply to be identified as the next high flier. They are identified through other tools and as a result they may get favourable training and placed in a role for their own development goals and to meet organisational needs. Length of time performing a role or doing certain tasks isn't a reliable indicator of future performance. If it were, all 'high fliers' would be 'older'.