After nearly a year of watching my wife apply for a multitude of job openings, and a good few multi-stage interviews, I have begun to question the validity of these openings. Do companies get “points” or manipulate statistics in their favor for going through the motions as though they are going to hire a candidate, but then claiming that nobody in the interview pool was what they were looking for?
In many of these instances, my wife has advanced to the second or third interview, only to be told that they are going with someone else. Weeks or maybe a month later, the job posting is back up, though sometimes with increased qualifications (for ENTRY LEVEL positions), so clearly whatever route they were pursuing has not worked out (if real). In the case of Intel, they told her that the position was being eliminated, only for her to find the next week a fresh posting for the same position with everything copy-pasted from the last posting.
When my wife does get an interview, they are typically an hour or longer, and my wife leaves them feeling confident, having connected with the interviewers and frequently getting a second interview which lasts just as long and goes just as well. With the frequency that these job listings are reposted on the same sites with the same information, I have begun to believe that the companies have no intention of hiring someone for the position, but want to look like they will. And if that's the case, they're really going to waste the time of applicants AND their own staff by having everyone go through the cycle of intensive interviewing, only to start again the next week?
I guess I'm looking for some kind of validation because I'm watching someone applying for jobs constantly, asking for much less than she's worth with great qualifications and references, getting turned down at every opportunity. Does anyone know what is going on here?
Edit: I understand that businesses are typically required to interview outside of the company even when they have an internal promotion lined up. The issue that I'm trying to bring to light is the job listings that go back up immediately after turning down an applicant on the basis that they've gone with someone else. In these situations, it appears as though there was no other person, and many times these listings will remain active for a while without being filled. There are clearly people willing to work, and for the absurdly low wages listed, but they continue to insist that they aren't able to fill the vacancy for whatever reason.