Almost everything about it doesn’t seem to benefit anyone: the teacher, the school, HR…
We all know that the vast majority of teaching job posts (especially this time of year) end up being ghost posts as what happens almost every time is that the principal is happy with their hire from the year before (or a current sub) and it is already set in stone that they’re going to get the job again.
But, they have to post the job publicly anyway and interview a bunch of people just to tick a nonsensical box. Even to the point where interview scores will be fudged or ignored to give the job to the person already there.
I think I understand why it happens (fixed term employment law?), but the way it plays out feels very disconnected from common sense. If the teacher earned the initial job through fair & open competition, and the school has the same (or very similar) opening the following year, then surely no employment laws are broken by just keeping them without needing any of the needless red tape? The current system feels like it's breaking the fair competition law more when the job is almost certainly going to someone else! Haha
Publicly posting the same job again for the following year only makes sense to me in the rare instances where the principal was perhaps not happy with the initial hire and wants to play the field again. But in the 90% of cases, I have absolutely no idea why the principal isn’t allowed to just say “i’m happy with the teacher that we hired through fair competition last year, so we’re just going to reward them with the job again” without all the song and dance of posting the job again for it to inevitably go to that same person.
The 'ghost post' system fucks everyone: External applicants waste time & stress on applications & interviews that basically never existed, schools/HR/BoMs have to go through a bunch of admin that they don’t need to, and the teacher already in the job needs to go through the stress of an interview and "competition" again for little reason
When a job gets posted, it should be an actual opening that currently doesn't have anyone lined up. That makes so much more sense to everyone involved. How did it even end up like this?