One of the most diabolical trends I’ve heard about in the job market is that about a third of job postings are “ghost jobs” — where there is no intent of hiring someone for the position posted.
A survey of 1,641 hiring managers had 40% of respondents admitted to posting ghost job listings with the reasons shown in the image.
This trend feels unnecessarily cruel and disheartening for job seekers navigating the market.
@carnage4life Once Upon A Tim I went for an interview for a contract job. They asked me how I would undertake the task they had, and I told them, and that was the end of that - no job materialized. So I deduced that the interview process was simply an scam to obtain free consultancy from applicants.
A couple of years later I got a request from an agency to attend another interview with the same customer. So I told them what happened last time, and said that my terms for attending the interview would be £500 paid up front, refundable against my first invoice when I'd started the contract job.
Not surprisingly the customer changed their minds about wanting to interview me.
This was a branch of Xerox.
Back when photomanipulation was a seriously dark art graphic designers would get us (photographic studio) to do manipulations as "proof of concepts" then say "we have people in house who will do the work, sorry" and then run the proof of concept and claim they did it themselves. I started having to leave "tells" in all my work to stop it happening and the local graphic designers complained.
Dare Obasanjo
Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE
Charnock