Ghost or not, I have applied for many jobs in the last few months and when I get a reply (I am not counting canned Thanks for applying but we decided to move with another candidate reply) it is almost always very early stage companies. I wonder if bigger companies actually look into CVs? I understand there are automated systems but I did not get replies several times even when the JD / Skills matched super closely with my CV.
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#102>The trend could be due to the low marginal cost of posting additional job ads and to maintain a pipeline of talents. After adjusting for yearly trends, I find that ghost jobs can explain the recent disconnect in the Beveridge Curve in the past fifteen years. The results show that policy-makers should be aware of such a practice as it causes significant job fatigue and distorts market signals. Very interesting. I cer…
> to maintain a pipeline of talents See, this is the part I don’t understand. If they don’t have real jobs available, what’s the point of building this “pipeline”? Are they genuinely going to plan to use this pipeline for future roles? Because simply posting a real job in the future will still get 1000s of applications which builds _real_ pipeline I don’t see recruiters going back through a bunch of old resumes to fi…
This "pipeline" thing is just an excuse. Companies are ALWAYS in the look for a special talent. This is not a real problem. If they find a very competent person they will offer the job. Otherwise, which is 99% of the time, they'll just say they're building a pipeline. It is the same mindset of a predator, they can justify being always looking for new pray, even though they know they'll only get it very rarely.
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#103I once applied for a job that precisely matched my qualifications. It was crazy - the job description could have been written by someone looking at my CV. I didn't even get an interview. Likely no one did. It wasn't a ghost job, though. It was a position created for a someone they wanted to hire. Being a public institution, they were required to advertise positions. That didn't mean that they actually wanted any of t…
Same, and I've been on the side of being the person they want to hire too. This should also be illegal, but alas
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#104Earlier quoted context omitted.
This isn't ethical. It shouldn't be legal. But it is. Welcome to America.
> It shouldn't be legal. But it is. How is that legal? If you think the local applicant can do the job, you legally can’t hire the H-1B over them, right?
Something is only as illegal as the enforcement put into it.
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#105Recently I have found several things:
- there are some positions that exist only to receive new personal data information. There are companies that scrape user data when you apply for a job
- some job positions are kept to make employees more productive
- some job positions are kept open to show investors "we are still hiring", "we have no problems, etc.
- some HR just want to have more and more data, some times it is just useful to have new CVs at hand
- my wife decided recently to apply to companies directly, not through work sites, to get directly to managers, etc.
- in the end my wife found job by word of mouth, someone knew someone, etc. etc.
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#106Well this one’s easy; there’s less money going around than in say, 2021, and hiring people is harder.
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#107I once applied for a job that precisely matched my qualifications. It was crazy - the job description could have been written by someone looking at my CV. I didn't even get an interview. Likely no one did. It wasn't a ghost job, though. It was a position created for a someone they wanted to hire. Being a public institution, they were required to advertise positions. That didn't mean that they actually wanted any of t…
Sometimes they also need to post the job to meet company policies. The hiring manger knows who they want to hire, but HR has requirements to post for various reasons.
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#108I only made it through 1/4 of the paper before running out of time.
Very interesting though.
Maybe the article mentions it, but is a sustainable countermeasure for job seekers only applying on websites where employer has to pay to post?
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#109Earlier quoted context omitted.
In this example the amazing engineer is a citizen or permanent resident already If my superiors would give me extra unexpected budget I’d be happy to. But if I find a citizen that is just as good as my opt employee, my only path forward is to either fire the opt or let them continue on the team but not submit their GC application (because I have to swear I couldn’t find a citizen that is just as good)
…because if you grant them the green card they will up and get a new job? The incentives here are so screwed up for everyone, it effectively codifies a caste system of immigrant workers.
I took the implication to be that GP already had a good employee who was hired legitimately under the terms of the H1B, but that, to convert to a green card, you have to see whether a US person could do the job. So you have to put out for interviews to see, but you don’t have to act on that information.
If the interview process yields a US person equally qualified, GP can’t (and doesn’t) certify the guest worker’s green card application. But that doesn’t mean they have to fire them and send them home early: they can let the guest worker work out their contract if they want to (which they probably do, it probably pays well compared to other options). And an experienced, already-trained, good employee is probably more valuable to the business than an immediate, unplanned new hire anyway.
So yes, certainly screwed up incentives—but I don’t see how it would be better to require guest workers to put their jobs in immediate jeopardy just to apply for permanent residency.
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#110Earlier quoted context omitted.
> It shouldn't be legal. But it is. How is that legal? If you think the local applicant can do the job, you legally can’t hire the H-1B over them, right?
Something is only as illegal as the enforcement put into it.
So you’re just using your own definition of legal/illegal?