Ghost Job Postings

Companies frequently put out job postings with no intention of hiring anyone. Is that wrong?

Many positions are not actively hiring. I’ve been applying on linkedin and the same positions are reposted weekly for months on end, never getting taken down and never getting replies.They’re cluttering up job boards because so few roles are available.

If all their job postings are not actually hiring, then they won’t get any applicants for the jobs that actually are, and then they can use that as evidence that they can’t find in-country candidates.So basically the only way to find any real job posting is to spam-apply to everything. Is there a service for that?

Companies dirty secret: Job postings are an invaluable signal generator for companies. Knowing how much demand there is for various positions in your company is super helpful to drive business decisions. And unfortunately the company loses most of the signal when they are candid about just gathering potential applicants (because people will not apply and you know a lot less about their interest and potential)Not defending being uncandid, just a heads-up to be realistic about what's going

Sorry to say this, but everyone in this thread should be aware of ghost job openings.https://www.reuters.com/breakingviews/fake-jobs-hide-cooler-...It's sometimes incompetent HR process and sometimes intentional market signalling, but these companies may just be stockpiling resumes for future use without any intention of

companies would post ghost jobs to collect a fee. it would be widely abused.

Everyone? Applicants are using AI to mass apply for jobs. Not everyone deserves a response.Why not: Please only post jobs if you are committed to interviewing and filling the position in the next 3 months. Accounts posting the same job opening for 6 months may be banned.In this market if it takes 6+ months to find someone there is a fundamental problem with the opening.At the very least it should be: "Please only post a job in this thread if you are committed to responding to all q

Does depend on what you want to do and job adds are a signal with a lot of noise ie not all job adds are current or even real

Wouldn't any company unscrupulous enough to advertise a job opening without a genuine intention to hire simply disregard such a rule?Thinking out loud:* What if there were a bit more restrictions to posting on Who's hiring? Perhaps a counter of how many times a profile has posted, with a max of N posts allowed per M months, or something.* Would also be nice to have some feedback from HN profiles on outcome of the job posting. Add a link to the job posting to your about page:<p

Aren't there enough job sites out there focusing on exactly that? This looks to be someone trying to differentiate.