“This Is Psychotic”: Man Claims Companies Are Deceiving People With Made-Up Job Listings

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Job hunting is stressful enough, especially with so many people competing online, all trying to stand out among a sea of applicants. But there’s an unexpected hurdle making it even harder for many—‘ghost jobs.’ Recently, digital creator Ceros Whaley took to TikTok to shed light on this issue.

You're on the list! Expect to receive your first email very soon!is stressful enough, especially with so many people competing online, all trying to stand out among a sea of applicants. But there’s an unexpected hurdle making it even harder for many—‘ghost jobs.’to shed light on this issue. ‘Ghost jobs’ are fake postings that companies put up, misleading countless hopeful job seekers who are simply trying to land a position.

I used to post ghost jobs, which are fake jobs to encourage our current employees to work harder. These jobs will be fake jobs, so you could apply for the listing but not actually get hired. They’re called ghost jobs.You might have applied for a ghost job, which isn’t a real job, it’s just put there to show that we’re looking for new hires at higher rates to get our current employees to work harder, as an incentive to make them work hard as opposed to increasing the base pay or the base rate.

So I’m thinking I can take it to HR, and he says, ‘You know we’re probably gonna have to talk about this later, but you should clock out for the day.’ I said, ‘I don’t wanna clock out for today, because we’re not done talking about the specific issue.’ This is insane, this is psychotic. So I go cool off. I talk to my friends on Discord, we’re cooling off, we’re talking about it.”“Then one of my friends does the same job as I do. He also posts ghost jobs. And it’s disgusting.

 

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