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There are fake job postings.

IIRC, there was one very recent (mid-2024) study of job ads that strongly suggested that 60-75% of them were never meant to be filled. As in, the company posted them for entirely unrelated reasons.

It’s why these are called “ghost jobs”: they don’t exist.

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Boozilla@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
I haven’t seen the numbers. I have read that they do this for a few evil reasons.

It makes their business look like it’s thriving.

They can gather intel on who’s job hunting.

They can use job application tasks to get free work out of candidates.
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- rekabis@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  Great summary.
  
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- Rekorse@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  You forgot one, test runs. See what works and ehat doesnt.
  
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AA5B@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Recruiters are essentially salesmen. They want to have a full dossier of product (you) when they talk to a potential client. It’s much easier to build that product inventory with ghost jobs than it is to actually work directly with someone looking for a job.

Maybe it’s my limited experience, but I’ve never worked for an employer that did this, as far as I know. Any opening was real at the time it was posted. However we’ve held onto people if we expect another opening or we like them even though they don’t fit …… or maybe we got the ok to hire and started the process but were shut down by bad numbers somewhere but hope that will change again

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