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28% of job postings on company career sites have been open over 90 days

302 points · 364 comments · rubatrejo

  1. legitster · · focus · HN ↗
    There are some browser plugins you can use for job sites like LinkedIn to filter out Ghost Jobs. It's been somewhat helpful, but honestly it feels like 90% of tech jobs right now are Ghost jobs.

    It's happened so many times. Apply for a job, within an hour get an email that says I am not qualified (not true), and then a week later the same job gets posted again.

    I'm normally a pretty free-market guy, but it should be illegal. It's clear-cut fraud - they are advertising something that doesn't exist, specifically to game numbers. And what's more, governments report on these numbers as if they are real job opportunities in the economy.

    1. MarleTangible · · focus · HN ↗
      There are also a lot of reposts coming from recruiting companies.

      I see a position getting posted for a local company, and within hours the same requirements are showing up for 10 new postings with vague company names like "... is wanted for a local manufacturer" etc.

      1. legitster · · focus · HN ↗
        The way I got my current job is that the company I applied for rejected my application and then hired a recruiter who brought me in with the same application.

        The company essentially handed the recruiter $10k because they were too bad at reviewing their own applications.

        1. mattm · · focus · HN ↗
          How do hire a recruiter as a candidate?
          1. legitster · · focus · HN ↗
            In this case the company hired the recruiter because "they couldn't find any candidates".

            Hiring your own recruiter can be kind of a scam - if you do it on your side they'll want ~10% of your first year's salary. But if you're interested in such a thing, all you have to do is so much as wag a finger on LinkedIn and they'll come swarming.

      2. destitude · · focus · HN ↗
        After I scheduled an appointment which I realized was a "recruiter" the zoom link showed the local time zone for the recruiter was from some West African country. I cancelled the appointment.
      3. thepryz · · focus · HN ↗
        This. I can't tell you how many times I've been contacted by a recruiter looking to fill a job that I myself am the hiring manager for or is within my reporting line. When recruiters can't even be bothered to look at the job, company and potentially hiring manager before contacting someone, the system is broken.
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