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I don't know how it works with online postings, but maybe they pay companies like Indeed/Monster for a block of time to post the positions? So they pay for 90 days and if it gets filled in 45 days, it stays up for the remaining 45 days. HR may choose to keep some applicants in the event the new hire doesn't work out.
A friend told me today that HR doesn't always remove job listings in a timely manner even if the job has been filled.
He said he found a job at a large company, so he applied for it online. Days after it, through a friend of a friend who works there, he checked into it to find out who the hiring manager was. Turns out the job was already filled a month before he even applied for it yet the job posting is still there online on the company website even today!
He joked he's waiting for an e-mail from HR to tell him he wasn't selected for the position because they found someone else who was a better match. Which would be a lie, because the job was filled even before he applied for it.
Your post reminds me of this position was posted internally, and someone got it. But a few months later, I saw that same position in the same branch was posted online. I asked somebody in that department "I saw that position posted online yesterday. What happened?" That person said that position was filled a long time ago. Nobody is resigning." And the person who got the job is very good. As far as I learned that the company did not plan to to hire another one. Weird. Why did they do that?
That is just lazyness for not putting an end date or going back in to close it from being public.
I believe you are right. The system should do it for them automatically, but it doesn't or it isn't configured properly to do this for them when the job is filled. Job Posting #1234 is tracked through the HR process, so once the final determination for Job Posting #1234 has been determined, it should be resolved by closing out the listing. Then automatically send out the usual boiler-plate e-mail message telling those who applied the position is no longer being recruited. But since it doesn't do that, it must not be a chore to those in HR. And HR doesn't care because it is evaluated mostly on the number offers accepted. Management never knowledgable about how must it is annoying those who apply for jobs there. This is why it is so important to report your experiences with places like Glassdoor to alert other job seekers. At least if there is enough complaints there, someone in the company such as Public Relations would bring it to the attention of management that the company's reputation is being damaged by how it handles a simple function like this.
Since I posted, I was talking to a friend who works in HR, and said that people applying for jobs in their system it doesn't generate an e-mail message for them to take action. They post a job, and when it becomes important for them to look at those who applied, then they login to their HR system for that job and review what is there. That makes sense, otherwise if you post 100 jobs, and get 100 people applying to each job you'd be getting tons of e-mail messages or alerts to handle. This way, if management decides not to fill the job at all, they can cancel the whole thing with a few keystrokes and be done with it.
Your friend's experience sheds light on a common issue in job searching – outdated listings. It's not unusual for job postings to linger online even after the position has been filled.
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