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 I fell for this, a lot, and it wasted a lot of my time and money. I really started to doubt myself and grew sort of paranoid.
Then I discovered that serious jobs were still being posted to Craigslist. The national job boards was where most of the "ghost" fishing for candidates was taking place.
So I can really strongly recommend Craigslist, which got me 3 serious offers in a week and finally ended my traumatic job search.
@Urban_Hermit @carnage4life good tip and likely because Craigslist charges to post jobs. So even though it isn’t a huge amount it almost certainly reduces the incentives to post ghost jobs (as it becomes a real expense for the company and likely more meaningfully something the person posting has to justify/expense/request a budget for etc.
Which for real jobs is probably trivially easy to justify.
But makes the ghost job posts have an actual paper trail and budget
Dare Obasanjo
Urban Hermit
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