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The Unemployable Life
Linkedin is Infested with Fake Jobs
Have you ever applied for a job that looked great but never heard back? You might have come across a ghost job. Ghost jobs or fake job postings generated by companies for strategic goals, have grown in popularity in recent years. According to CNBC, there has been a 50% reduction in hires relative to job advertising since 2019. What this means is that many job ads are only for show and not for recruiting. According to studies, 40% of organizations had posted ghost jobs by 2024, with 30% currently promoting posts that do not exist. So, why are businesses doing this?i
🤔 What can you learn from this episode?
- The Strategy Behind Fake Job Posts: How Businesses Use Ghost Jobs for Industry Visibility, Resume Gathering, and Assessing Pay Expectations.
- How to identify the characteristics of a fake job posting.
- The Impact on Employment Seekers: The way ghost jobs mislead candidates, waste time, and deceive our perception of the employment market.
- Why firms utilize ghost jobs and their sneaky techniques.
- The Job Market Illusion: Why it's getting tougher to believe job postings and hiring numbers.
- The effects of fake jobs on applicants and the economy.
- What We Can Do About It: Strategies for identifying fake jobs to hold employment organizations accountable.
- Actions you may do for reporting ghost jobs and identifying legitimate ones.
Ghost jobs are more than simply a waste of time, they have an impact on the entire economy, making it impossible to assess genuine employment demands and misleading eager job searchers. Tune in to learn how to avoid these tactics and what efforts we can take for making job hunting more transparent.
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