First of all ask your current good employees if they can refer anyone.

Not permitted, depending on location and industry.

That kind of thought is how you end up with entire departments of 20-year-old single white guys wearing the same polo shirts and khaki pants.

A company with any size legal department is going to require you to consider applications from the general public.

Well they will ask you to "formally" consider applications from the general public. How this often works is you already chose your ideal candidate before the job ad lands, you have their resume in front of you, you tailor the job ad perfectly to fit this resume. And then you put out the job ad for the obligatory 2 week period while you informally onboard them. Maybe you even let them crank overtime for the first month to "pay" for those first two weeks when they weren't enrolled in payroll.

Seen it play out at a company with over 40k employees so I figure its common everywhere to operate like this with these legal fig leafs.

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