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.

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.

The company I work for (under 10,000 employees) hires an outside company to conduct audits for this every two years. I have no idea how it works.