Fake Job Listings Are Proliferating
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#3What people fail to understand is that fake job postings pollute the pool and make real hiring impossible. We’re back to a referrals only job market.
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#4Nothing new, just amplified by AI.
Companies inflate open roles to make themselves look more legit. A bonus is they can trawl for candidates and keep resumes in the back pocket. AI makes this easier so it can be done for less effort so more companies can do it.
If you want a real job that really exists, aim for intros to hiring managers.
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#5That’s why tools like Jobs Applier AI Agent are proliferating as well. Fight fire with fire, I guess?
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#6It should be illegal.
Fake job postings are used to harvest data, to give fake signals like the company is growing.
One is a privacy problem, the other one is fraud.
If you get a response saying the position was filled, you should be able to request for the job posting to be removed, or they should do it within a reasonable period of time.
If the position remains open after they tell you it is closed just apply again.
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#7Fake jobs, fake candidates, fake/useless work, and fake/inflationary money! All for what? It'll all go to zero. Meanwhile, if you want to get a job, a good recruiter still works, although there are many fake recruiters too.
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#8What people fail to understand is that fake job postings pollute the pool and make real hiring impossible. We’re back to a referrals only job market.
I was never able to get a job through applications on LinkedIn, Indeed, etc. Every job I got was through a referral, and the same is true for my friends who are also programmers.
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#10That’s why tools like Jobs Applier AI Agent are proliferating as well. Fight fire with fire, I guess?
We need a snappy word for everything in life becoming a shitty escalating cat and mouse game. I’m hearing the word enshittification a lot these days but unsure if it’s right here