You're totally missing the point(s), so I must be communicating it badly. I'm sorry.
There are two points here.
First: if you are an employer:
Don't hire often. Hire only when you absolutely need to. That way, the people you hire are assured to be critical to your business. Roles where people can be business-critical are inherently more attractive to strong candidates. Strong candidates + business-critical roles = organic hiring, where you simply don't have to put out a req and take the best of the results.
You also need to be a successful business (not "supercool") and you also need to be a good place to work (again, not "supercool"). But lots of successful businesses with good work environments run a recruiting system that forces them to select the best candidate out of a pile of resumes after posting a req, and that sucks.
More importantly:
If you are a prospective employee:
Consider a career-style where you don't ever look at job reqs. Don't look to see who's hiring. You don't care. Instead, you think about what you do best, and where you could be most effective doing it. Are you an animator? Pixar!
Then, beat down their doors and get a job there.
You are going through more effort than normal job seekers do. But at the same time, you are getting more degrees of freedom with your own career, and an assurance that you are really going to fit wherever you land.
Lots of companies won't be able to hire you if you approach them this way. Good. Those companies are assuredly not staffed with people who beat down the doors to get in. You don't want to work there.
There are two points here.
First: if you are an employer:
Don't hire often. Hire only when you absolutely need to. That way, the people you hire are assured to be critical to your business. Roles where people can be business-critical are inherently more attractive to strong candidates. Strong candidates + business-critical roles = organic hiring, where you simply don't have to put out a req and take the best of the results.
You also need to be a successful business (not "supercool") and you also need to be a good place to work (again, not "supercool"). But lots of successful businesses with good work environments run a recruiting system that forces them to select the best candidate out of a pile of resumes after posting a req, and that sucks.
More importantly:
If you are a prospective employee:
Consider a career-style where you don't ever look at job reqs. Don't look to see who's hiring. You don't care. Instead, you think about what you do best, and where you could be most effective doing it. Are you an animator? Pixar!
Then, beat down their doors and get a job there.
You are going through more effort than normal job seekers do. But at the same time, you are getting more degrees of freedom with your own career, and an assurance that you are really going to fit wherever you land.
Lots of companies won't be able to hire you if you approach them this way. Good. Those companies are assuredly not staffed with people who beat down the doors to get in. You don't want to work there.