[iamflimflam1]

This can still happen a lot for normal job roles.

I have a candidate that I want to hire (say a recommendation, a referral, or someone I just want to give a job to) my internal processes may mandate that the job needs to be “advertised”.

So it gets advertised - and what do you know - the only applicant that fits the bill is this one person…

[fsuts]

Some companies state that there is a strong internal candidate on the job ad. I think that’s a better way to do it