So there’s a business analyst role that was opened on my team, and no one on the team was never told about this opportunity. Leadership decided to hire a random person for this role, without giving anyone else a chance to apply. Is this an HR issue
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@as Dude, not helpful. Clearly, the job was either not posted at all, or the same con game was played to open it for 24h, tell the darling to drop in their name, and close it immediately. Then, say "but no one else applied to it, he was the only one."
Oldest game.
And, I seem to recall there is no legal requirement for posting a job.
Seems OP and his team are on the radar.
Just wait until it becomes clear that the new hire has no clue how to do anything.
Several famous names were shuffled around like this.
First, the leaders should have been transparent about the open role with the rest of the team.
Second, take more control of your career advancement opportunities and set up an alert in workday that will notify you anytime a role is posted with certain parameters that you tell it to look for.
From experience, that "random person" is someone's protegee that needed a job. Or, they were hired for the specific purpose of detecting the 'unaligned' team members for future layoff targets.
Either way, beware. Your leaders are clearly duplicit, so keep your thoughts to yourself on the job for now. Start documenting offline.
HR will not help you, but fire you first, because they too are probably part of this.