Should all job vacanies be advertised

[shazzer brow]

6 months ago I applied for a job and was unsuccessful in getting the post, I have recently found out that 'the person next in line' has been given the same position, with out the new position being advertised. Is this allowed?

[factor-fiction]

Not sure the question makes sense but I think the answer has got to be no generally although within certain organisations there may be rules about this. Can you be more specific. Where was the job adveritsed, was it advertised outside company or within, which job wasn't advertised? and has that been filled.

[firegirl]

Unfortunately this is rife. I know of someone who was guaranteed a job ( in local government) but to make things "legal" they had to advertise and interview people. None of these people had any chance of getting the job. I think this is plain wrong, giving people false hope and wasting peoples time.

[antiguru]

Of course it is allowed. All that has happened is that the employer has given the role to the person they consider is best for it. That�s recruitment. No one has any rights, sadly including the employer.

In some companies the employer may have had to make a pledge to an employee rep group (ie a Union or Works Council) that they will advertise all jobs even if there is an obvious person, but in my experience this is even more likely to lead to the kind of disappointment that firegirl describes.

Put yourself in the position, for a moment, of the person who feels getting a role is actually promotion as a reward for years or doing a job more junior to their skills for a lower wage in the hope that one day the senior job will become available � only to have it given to someone else.