[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.