Ghost jobs are wreaking havoc on tech workers
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#2I’m not shocked at all. Another issue is recruiters posting fake jobs and asking for references as step one. Soon as I say “I don’t provide references until the last step, and only to the company hiring” they hang up on me
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#3Employees look for new jobs they aren't seriously interested in. Why shouldn't employers do the same?
Filtering through a 1000 unemployed people spamming every job listing isn't going to give them useful intel.
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#4I’m not shocked at all. Another issue is recruiters posting fake jobs and asking for references as step one. Soon as I say “I don’t provide references until the last step, and only to the company hiring” they hang up on me
Not only fake job postings, it's also companies posting fake jobs when they already have an internal or external candidate all but signed.
The amount of spam and fake jobs on LI + other major sites is just disgusting and is ripe for government to come in and crack some heads.
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#5Employees look for new jobs they aren't seriously interested in. Why shouldn't employers do the same? Filtering through a 1000 unemployed people spamming every job listing isn't going to give them useful intel.
I mean the reason I can think of off the top of my head is that one is wasting the time of people who are looking for a job so they can continue to live, and the other is wasting the time of a person who's job is reviewing resumes?
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#6Don’t use LinkedIn or Monster or Indeed. You’re better off searching on Google with “ inurl:careers” and finding positions these companies are directly hiring for.
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#7On this topic, do y'all think the HN Who's Hiring thread has ghost jobs? I know I've applied to one and never had back (a few years ago).
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#8Of the obvious fake job postings I've seen, I always assumed they were attempts at Russian or Chinese espionage. Example: for a very brief time I was a US DoD contractor.
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#9This should be prosecuted. Section 5 of the Federal Trade Commission Act prohibits “unfair or
deceptive acts or practices in or affecting commerce.”
Posting ghost jobs is a deceptive act.
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#10Don’t use LinkedIn or Monster or Indeed. You’re better off searching on Google with “ inurl:careers” and finding positions these companies are directly hiring for.
Or Dice. Dice is just a spam magnet for "I know you're a PM in Washington looking for remote roles, but we have this two month onsite Kubernetes contract in Indiana, can we talk?"