[MattGaiser]

I think it depends on the company.

In a past organization a friend was HR at, there were branch office jobs and corporate jobs. Officially you could get promoted to the corporate office. Unofficially, don't bother as they optimized for different things for each hiring pool.

So they tried to keep the corporate jobs only available to the corporate people as otherwise the branch people would get excited and then end up having their dreams dashed from repeatedly applying and having their resumes chucked while an external hire filled their job.

[ghaff]

Yeah, you especially don't want to proactively push out a bunch of job postings to people who have exactly zero chance of landing the position because the decision has already been made.

[MattGaiser]

That too.

Plenty of job postings exist merely for compliance. So all you are doing is wasting a lot of time.

[sct202]

The worst is when the hiring managers have to go thru with interviewing N people who applied to comply with policy.