Company's Advertising Jobs That Don't Exists?????

My wife has been looking for work for over a year and has submitted better than 700 resumes ONLINE for position she is well qualified for.

In the past two weeks the major grocery stores in our hometown have been advertising for various positions from front end clerk to department managers. My wife has applied for multiple positions advertised at each stores online career page. We shop at each of these weekly so I told my wife to wait a day and then go into the store in see if she could do a followup with the department manager as a way to show interest. 85% of the department managers whom we know through passing in the store when she has approached them have said they were not aware of any department openings much less any other store positions as well...

If corporations are advertising jobs just to be advertising I think that it should stop,it is false advertising. If they are collecting apps for future hiring then they should be required to disclose that.

She has a PT standby job but would like to have something closer to home with a few more hours.

do you understand why they might?

....Individual store management is unaware as to what jobs are being posted by corporate for their location...isn't that kinda strange that local management is unaware???

Explain that.

understand why a company would do that? They do everything to benefit themselves, and I'm not seeing the benefit in this. I'm not a business person so it may be clear to some, but not to me. I was just asking for some enlightenment. I'm always eager to learn. Sheesh.

I was told by an HR person that it's done mainly to gather information on what kind of workforce the competition has and to deduce what the competition might be working on.

My guess is that the chain's career page is linked on each of the franchisees' sites, and that the openings listed there are nationwide, not local.

BUT...with the tight job market, it allows companies to "upgrade" their stable of employees.
They might not be hiring...BUT if someone with an MBA walks in--long term unemployed--they can pick them up for a job working in the "office" for scraps and they get the benefit of their knowledge for free.
It is deplorable, but they are basically exploiting desperate people.

In the hospital (not sure of other industries), they are budgeted for a certain number of jobs.
NO manager will fill all the positions they have and will pretty much keep a few positions "open"...but still in their budget.
When the higher-ups call for budget cuts--they cut these unfilled positions by attrition and then don't have to cut hours or fire people.

someone just as qualified, but at a lower wage, or salary. The person being replaced isn't "fired",but their work hours are reduced substantially until they are forced to quit, and are unable to collect unemployment.

Predatory tactics like this are on the rise, especially in right to work states.

I've worked at a big box office products store for a number of years and they have help wanted signs permanently posted at the entrance to the store. When people inquire, they are told that we are not hiring but they are invited to fill out an application online.

Based on the online applications, the store manager can pick, choose and invite likely prospects in for interviews and possible hirings. The last several hirings have all been recent high school graduates at minimum wage.

Being with this company for almost 15 years, my hourly wage is twice the minimum wage, and over the last month I've seen my hours cut from 40hrs.. to 32hrs... to 24hrs... Over the last two weeks, despite my reduced schedule I singlehandedly completed a difficult Tech 2.0 revision of the entire computer department, earning our store a 90 percent score on our District Managers inspection visit and I was personally rated by one of those infamous secret shoppers, earning a 90 percent rating on the shop... for this I was rewarded with a work schedule this week of a whopping 11 hours.

just like you said... "Predatory tactics like this are on the rise.."