They’re called position descriptions and just about every job in fed gov has one, probably a third of them are standardized, and other third are just lightly modified standard PDs.
Companies in a private sector do similar things in Europe just to demonstrate that there was some hiring process even though they already knew who they wanted to hire.
in government positions, search is sometimes mandated.
i once competed for a job for which i was the current temporary contractor, and they asked me to write the job description.
somehow i got the job. does that count?
I can see how thst’s kind of productive assuming they needed a template for the job description so they could use it in future if you quit
They’re called position descriptions and just about every job in fed gov has one, probably a third of them are standardized, and other third are just lightly modified standard PDs.
Companies in a private sector do similar things in Europe just to demonstrate that there was some hiring process even though they already knew who they wanted to hire.
I think mandating search is good but they should have a clause for a case like yours