According to recent research, companies are increasingly using fake online job openings to create an illusion of growth, motivate existing employees, and build a future candidate pool without any real intention of hiring. It is dubbed as “ghost posting”., involving over 1,000 hiring managers, revealed that beyond boosting artificial growth metrics and productivity, one-third of professionals admitted to using ghost posts to appease overworked employees.
Job seekers can avoid falling into the ghost posting trap by ensuring listings are recent. Joe Mercurio, project manager for Clarify Capital, advises, “A job that was posted 48 hours ago is more likely to be actively hiring than a job posted three months ago.”
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