There are adverts for jobs and interviews rounds done to simply tick the box they have "attempted recruitment outside the company". This happened to me. To st

There are adverts for jobs and interviews rounds done to simply tick the box they have "attempted recruitment outside the company". This happened to me. To start the ball rolling I had to unofficially accept a job which did not yet exist. Once they had interviewed a few external candidates they offered me the role without any interview. Only thing I had to do was "apply" to the job via intranet. Only ever happened to me once though and genuinely felt guilty about the other candidates.