Ghost jobs: Job hunters say companies are posting listings for jobs that don’t exist – By Braden Bjella (Daily Dot) / July 15, 2023
What is a ‘ghost job’ and how do you spot one?
When Allie began applying for jobs about four months ago, she noticed a peculiar trend.
An employer would post a job listing. Then, thousands of people would apply, including Allie herself. She would not receive an answer, but the job listing would remain active—sometimes for months at a time.
If a job listing was removed, it would occasionally reappear a short time later—the same pay, the same location, the same responsibilities. It’s almost as though it were a newly available position.
“I’m trying to understand why employers are doing this, since it seems to me like it’s almost every company/job posting I find on LinkedIn,” she told the Daily Dot in an email. “It feels like there is some larger, hidden agenda—like they’re personally benefiting in some way from continuously acting as if they’re actively recruiting/hiring for these roles but never filling them.”
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