Or they’re doing what my company does, and holding offerings open to harvest resumes, either to sell the data or to have people they can throw on a list for their recruitment staff. Also just pumping numbers for board meetings - “we had 9k applicants for these 3 positions” sounds impressive and not dystopian to a certain type of investor.
Possibly they were only posting the job at all due to HR regulations but in reality it was already spoken for.
The current job market is… not ideal, many people say.
Or they’re doing what my company does, and holding offerings open to harvest resumes, either to sell the data or to have people they can throw on a list for their recruitment staff. Also just pumping numbers for board meetings - “we had 9k applicants for these 3 positions” sounds impressive and not dystopian to a certain type of investor.