The frightening part of the IDT report is that most roles posted are already filled. You won’t even be considered. There are very few jobs without preferred candidates and no real way of figuring those out. How is this legal? It’s all a facade. They want us gone- even if you are a great performer. And I love how some of the worst performers ever are not impacted. It’s all favoritism so how can we ever recover from this reorg? I will never trust anything again
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Preferred candidates have been in place all the time for good/coveted positions...its just now becoming so much more apparent at all levels. The game really is about how to become the preferred candidate: focus less on delivering in the job and more on making friends in high places/mapping out next possible moves and getting less visible work done through others.
Shell is a garbage company. Get out. The truth is that the best always leave.
MOR is a farce all thinking people know that.
They only do this facade because in some countries they are forced to go through such processes (NL for example) and to shield themselves from potential lawsuits. “Oh there was an application process, guess I wasn’t competitive oh well let me sign the severance paperwork and move on.” If they just straight up fired people, there would definitely be more upset people willing to lawyer up and take their as--s to court.
Shell is a garbage company that will fail in the next decade or so. Get out while the gettings good.
The whole "no preferred candidates" and "rank your top 5 jobs in your applications" that HR jams down our throats during these reorgs is 100% BS. The last few reorgs I've had to fight for a spot in have definitely demonstrated that upper management and the like already have a solid 80/20 idea of where people will end up in these situations, and use it as an excuse to either move people up, around, or out (for better or worse).
Most GMs and Team Lead / Managers at Shell are simply corrupt mofos…