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

302 points · 364 comments · rubatrejo

jedberg · 1790186619 · focus · HN ↗
I talked to a hiring manager friend at a big company you've definitely heard of. I was looking for a job so I sent him a link to one of his jobs and said "can I interview for this?"
He said: Oh, I have 23 recs on the job site but none of them are open. They just keep them there to make us look like we're still hiring like crazy.
1. rad_val · 1790192696 · focus · HN ↗
  Yeah, common knowledge sadly. Can get even worse, a friend had recently an interview with a, not-so-well-known, but you heard of them company and they didn't do any face to face interview, just AI driven via email, all steps. When he failed a step: they offered him some credits on the platform, literally a funnel via a job post (it's a dev platform).
2. diego_moita · 1790200336 · focus · HN ↗
  This is called ghost jobs. More than 90% of posted jobs are like this.
  In HN's Who's Hiring it is very close to 100%, so I don't look at that thread anymore.
  The solution: use AI robots for jobs.
  1. bluecheese452 · 1790211026 · focus · HN ↗
    You are being downvoted but hn is really bad about this. One company posted an advert for their “third engineer” for literally years.
    mixmastamyk · 1790358782 · focus · HN ↗
    Correct, and don't complain about it or you will be lightly punished by the mods.
3. [deleted] · 1790202442 · focus · HN ↗
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4. Baljhin · 1790554268 · focus · HN ↗
  My standard procedure when looking at job listings is to search references of the company on HN, to see if there's any chitchat about its services/products.
  Just 2 months ago I found a LI listing for a company that even has a "Show HN" - "...one of the fastest-growing security and compliance platforms in history." Not much chatter about it, but enough I felt assured to apply to the listing.
  It's only after I clicked Submit that I discovered a factoid on the LI listing: it had been open for NINE months. The company's ATS does not show time-of-posting.
  Worse-- just right now, I went to both the company's ATS listing and Linkedin: the posting is still open, 11 months now and counting.
  Oh, and no surprise-- no response to my application, two months later.

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