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To look busy as hiring managers, they build a waitlist of candidates "just in case" and then never call them up but they can tell their boss how many applications they "reviewed" each week.
Also to keep stringing overworked employees along. When they complain about long hours tell them "we're looking, these things take time, need thhe right candidate and then approval from corporate" blah blah blah. Really they're just waiting for anyone who crashes out and quits and then they have a wait list of a hundred people.
Feels like my dept. We looking to hire for months. And I only had 2 interviews since January. Insane. In fact one of the reasons why is because too many overqualified ppl are applying and the dept refuses to pay them for it. So I said ok let's hire a new graduate! But Noooo we need someone with experience! Like mate I did those job straight out of college!
It's just greed ive deen it happen several times: people complain they're overworked, HR strings them along about hiring more help, someone crashes out and quits on the spot one day, HR takes another six months to finally replace the person, that person is related to the owner and sucks at the job, fin.