Are you confident that LinkedIn itself is doing that, rather than some recruiter working for or targeting that different company?
Or a recruitment SaaS that recruiter is using?
(Recruitment seems to be numbers game for a lot of people. And I've noticed a few questionable integrations and duct-tape workflows going on around LinkedIn. I wouldn't be surprised if the phenomenon you noticed was an accident of one of those.)
First of all, I believe it is a LinkedIn feature because I came across an article on the LinkedIn knowledge base site about this feature 2 weeks ago. Unfortunately I can't find it anymore... It's very frustrating how searching Google for anything related to LinkedIn reveals dozens of pages of SEO spam but I digress.
I'm hoping someone else can find the article I read. What I remember about it was: It said it was a beta feature gradually being rolled out, but if you wanted access sooner there was a link to contact LinkedIn to enable it for your company. The other thing I remember from the page is that it said it would automatically import 2 jobs per month for free, which is good because this is in addition to the 1 free job you can post per month.
Secondly, if I dreamt about this article or something and this isn't actually a LinkedIn feature, then I apologize as the title and content of my post is misleading. However it is still a problem that somehow other companies are able to post jobs on your company's official LinkedIn that link away from LinkedIn to another page.
I'm sure there's a way to opt-out of all of this (or at least I'd hope so). The problem is that we didn't _opt_in_ which is why I think people need to know.
You're right that the end impact is the same for OP. I don't think GP is arguing that this should necessarily soften consequences. It's pretty important to know who is responsible for this outcome and what consequences can fix the situation, though!
I believe GP's intended direction was that there may be very different conversations there depending on whether this is (1) a platform potentially abusing its users vs. (2) a platform's _user(s)_ potentially abusing other users.
Or a recruitment SaaS that recruiter is using?
(Recruitment seems to be numbers game for a lot of people. And I've noticed a few questionable integrations and duct-tape workflows going on around LinkedIn. I wouldn't be surprised if the phenomenon you noticed was an accident of one of those.)