3 in 10 Companies Currently Have Fake Job Postings Listed

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by gscott • 2 years ago

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kassner• 2 years ago

The people lying to the weak end of the market are the same ones that don’t see a problem with it. No surprises here.

gsky• 2 years ago

As if there are not enough ways humans are wasting their time

roshankhan28• 2 years ago

i know the reason. they sometimes want to show the investors that we are hiring and we need money. they show the money being spent but they save for themselves. i have a friend who is an HR and he is my source on it.

xpl• 2 years ago

Isn't the number of job postings a key metric for the job market? Because if yes, it must've been really misleading.

lotsofpulp• 2 years ago

No, the change in the lower bound of the pay range of a job posting is a key metric.

yellowapple• 2 years ago

This is one of those situations where naming and shaming is not only acceptable, but a moral obligation. I especially would want to know which hiring managers are among those 7 out of 10 who believe fake listings to be morally acceptable, such that I and others can save myself the time and effort of going through a pointless application process.

sirspacey• 2 years ago

Having seen this up close & personal at a Fortune 500

The “fake postings” were real requests from hiring managers, but by preserving an incompetent recruiting process leadership could say “help is coming” even though no one was responding to applicants.

Got so bad entire teams were actually just one hiring manager trying to do it all.

toomuchtodo• 2 years ago

Don't be a hero. Let broken systems fail.

vr-wannabe• 2 years ago

I've had a negative experience with company called 'MSAB' where they had a C++ software engineer job posted for 6 months, they weren't hiring anyone.

After politely reaching out to someone working for them, who confirmed that the role was closed many months ago.

LucidLynx• 2 years ago

I suspect Canonical is one of those.

I regularly see positions near to my position (France, sometimes in villages!), and when I apply I receive from 8 to 12 minutes after an email that says "Sorry but your resume is not relevant"... except that my resume has *exactly* all the requirements.

When I talked to my friends about this they tries to apply too and... same thing: 8 to 12 minutes for certain positions, they have been rejected with the exact same response.

Atreiden• 2 years ago

You probably don't want to work there anyway. Any company using High School GPA and extracurriculars as a hiring criterion for senior roles, is, in my opinion, not a serious organization.

darnir• 2 years ago

I applied to one of those positions at Canonical. Their hiring process is so bad, I noped out. No wonder they have open positions all the time, since serious engineers are not going to put up with those shenanigans.

What does my high school GPA and traits have to do with my work as a senior kernel engineer? It reeks of cliques and I want nothing to do with it.

phendrenad2• 2 years ago

If you want to go work on Linux, go work for a real Linux company, like Microsoft.

fasa99• 2 years ago

It happens. A major landmark, let's say leap forward in my career - I applied to a job at (to keep it anonymous) let's say a research center in a scientific field that is maybe top #1 or #2 depending on whom you ask in that area. Swiftly rejected. Randomly, maybe 6 months later, a very exasperated PI from the same institution contacted me directly. She'd fished through the HR system, nobody good was sent through, she'd found me, went in for an interview. It all played out beautifully. Great team, one of the best jobs I've ever had, lifelong mentor & supporter & vice versa.

I think the question is who is the guy calling out irrelevant resumes, and are they qualified for it.

paulkrush• 2 years ago

In 2008, while working for a staffing company during the economic downturn, I observed a controversial practice. The company posted job listings that were known to be highly unlikely to result in actual placements. The primary objective was to engage candidate references, turning these interactions into sales opportunities. While I viewed this as potentially wasting candidates' time and straining their professional relationships, the company justified it as a way to maintain a network for future hiring needs. They believed that keeping the system active at full capacity would ensure readiness when the job market rebounded, transforming these difficult-to-fill positions into real opportunities. This experience has led me to always insist on providing references only after a technical interview, a practice that has served me well.

ulfw• 2 years ago

Way more than 3 out of 10 in my personal experience of unsuccessfully looking for a job for two full years now

CM30• 2 years ago

This is one of those things I suspect should probably be made illegal, just like fake reviews are. There is no benefit to society for companies being allowed to post fake job listings, and an awful lot of downsides to both jobseekers (wasted time and effort for a job they'll never get) and services hosting the jobs (makes their listings useless for users).

And while I hear that sometimes it's for 'compliance' reasons (can't hire an internal candidate without listing the job publicly), there should be better laws there too. It's blatantly exploiting a loophole that just about everyone would say goes against the spirit of the law/guidelines and simply shouldn't be allowed. Either jobs can't be listed if a candidate has already been chosen internally, or that companies are required to show equal consideration to both internal and external candidates.

BobaFloutist• 2 years ago

It's also probably technically securities fraud.

3 in 10 Companies Currently Have Fake Job Postings Listed

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