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Replying to @girlypops i know the whole process is nerve wracking but stay positive. Its not over until its over. #interviews #jobinterview #careeradvice #recruitertips
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Hmm. Not gonna lie, this actually worries me, and I'll tell you why. Most companies have policies built around how long they keep jobs open online for advertisement, so that way internals and externals have a fair chance on applying to the position. Now, there isn't like, a set amount of days or anything like that, but most companies that I've worked for, we try to keep it open for maybe like five days. Right. And then after that, we can close it, because by then we know we have enough internals and externals that we need. Especially if it's an easy to fill position, we can go ahead and close it now if it's not such an easy to fill position, but we do have a great candidate pool. You wanna go ahead and close that position or not close the position, but take down the advertisement, because you don't want a bunch of applicants to keep applying because eventually you have to reject all those applicants. So if you're really close to filling the position as a recruiter, I don't wanna keep that job open for too long, because I'm gonna either have to go through all those applications and reject them. And, like, what's the point? I've already found the person. I found the one, essentially, so there's no need to do that. If you made it to a final round interview and you still see that posting live, that doesn't feel good. That wouldn't feel good. To me. Um. And so there's something going on. They're either fishing for backups or, you know, they just. They. They don't have their policies and procedures in place in a way that I would feel comfortable recruiting for this company. That doesn't really make sense. If you're in a final, you still see it being posted and reposted. I hope that helps.
Hook analysis
brand_fit: with_changes“Not gonna lie, this actually worries me, and I'll tell you why.”
Pattern
warning
Format
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Topic
interview-performance
Sub-topic
job still posted after final interview
Content angle
recruiter posting behaviour is a readable signal about your candidacy
CTA
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Narrative structure
viewer question -> insider policy explanation -> two possible readings -> soft verdict
AU transplant
yes
Transplant note
Carries over intact. The internal-versus-external fair-advertising window, the five-day-ish posting minimum, and the recruiter's reluctance to keep a req live once they've picked someone all operate the same way in Australian corporates and government. No US visa law, no US salary bands, no US-only platforms are cited. The only adjustment: Australian public sector and large enterprise often have mandated minimum advertising periods, which strengthens rather than weakens the point and should be stated as a specific number rather than 'maybe like five days'.
Brand fit note
Structurally strong and close to the brand: it opens cold, refuses to soften a claim, and delivers a genuine insider mechanism (companies advertise for a fair-access window, then pull the post to avoid rejecting a queue of applicants) — that is exactly the 'nobody tells you this' register. Three fixes required. First, it is saturated with hedges the voice doc says to delete on sight: 'maybe like five days', 'there isn't like a set amount', 'it is possible that', 'sort of'. Replace with one hard number. Second, it leaves the viewer worse off with no lever — 'they're either fishing for backups' is fatalism, and the brand's line is that demonstrated value is the thing you control; it needs a mechanism for what to do next (the follow-up message, the question to ask the recruiter). Third, no CTA and no cost accounting. It does not name any employer as a villain, so no 'Never ships' trip.
Why it performed
Not written yet.