If you are a hiring manager and you are posting fake jobs just to make you or your firm look better, you are a piece of shit. I know this is harsh words but there is no way to express exactly how...
If you are a hiring manager and you are posting fake jobs just to make you or your firm look better, you are a piece of shit.
I know this is harsh words but there is no way to express exactly how shitty this is. These people are accepting free labor to improve their image. A job listing is a promise to consider job applications, so they are lying to the public about a tiny service which they never intended to render. And they are doing so for people who may or may not be desperate for the job they are dangling.
My husband is going through this nonsense now. It's honestly disgusting how companies are allowed to continue to do things like this and get away with it.
My husband is going through this nonsense now. It's honestly disgusting how companies are allowed to continue to do things like this and get away with it.
I can imagine that the amount of posted jobs may influence the stock price of a publicly traded company at least a little bit. Scraping the job listings is very easy (or they can just be bought at...
I can imagine that the amount of posted jobs may influence the stock price of a publicly traded company at least a little bit. Scraping the job listings is very easy (or they can just be bought at a job listing platform) and the thought that they correlate to stock performance does seem plausible.
To be honest, anyone who is searching for a job should ideally only apply to jobs posted the day they are searching or job listings that are a week old at most. Even if a 30+ day old job listing...
Still, roles do exist – or at least appear to. Job boards like LinkedIn and Indeed continue to advertise open positions, and workers are actively submitting applications. Yet despite an influx of highly qualified candidates, plenty of desirable job adverts have languished on digital platforms with an increasingly common label: "Posted 30+ days ago".
To be honest, anyone who is searching for a job should ideally only apply to jobs posted the day they are searching or job listings that are a week old at most. Even if a 30+ day old job listing is still active, you are much less likely to actually get a response. Being one of the first dozen applicants for a job gives you much better odds of being seen than being applicant 348.
I would argue that it depends. A lot of companies are just shoving applications through a program (AI or not) to filter out most of them. Gov jobs are another exception. They usually have to post...
Being one of the first dozen applicants for a job gives you much better odds of being seen than being applicant 348.
I would argue that it depends. A lot of companies are just shoving applications through a program (AI or not) to filter out most of them.
Gov jobs are another exception. They usually have to post the closing date for the application acceptance window.
If there is an actual factual human looking at the resumes sent in, then yes, it pays to be one of the first 15 or so applicants. BUT many companies now use ATS and give it a week or so to handle...
If there is an actual factual human looking at the resumes sent in, then yes, it pays to be one of the first 15 or so applicants. BUT many companies now use ATS and give it a week or so to handle the applications before contacting anyone the system says is good enough - that is, someone who has the exact right words the filters caught.
Being applicant 753 doesn't matter anymore if everything is going through these ATS bots because as long as you have the keywords on your resume, you will get through, at least the very first round of bots.
If you are a hiring manager and you are posting fake jobs just to make you or your firm look better, you are a piece of shit.
I know this is harsh words but there is no way to express exactly how shitty this is. These people are accepting free labor to improve their image. A job listing is a promise to consider job applications, so they are lying to the public about a tiny service which they never intended to render. And they are doing so for people who may or may not be desperate for the job they are dangling.
My husband is going through this nonsense now. It's honestly disgusting how companies are allowed to continue to do things like this and get away with it.
I can imagine that the amount of posted jobs may influence the stock price of a publicly traded company at least a little bit. Scraping the job listings is very easy (or they can just be bought at a job listing platform) and the thought that they correlate to stock performance does seem plausible.
To be honest, anyone who is searching for a job should ideally only apply to jobs posted the day they are searching or job listings that are a week old at most. Even if a 30+ day old job listing is still active, you are much less likely to actually get a response. Being one of the first dozen applicants for a job gives you much better odds of being seen than being applicant 348.
I would argue that it depends. A lot of companies are just shoving applications through a program (AI or not) to filter out most of them.
Gov jobs are another exception. They usually have to post the closing date for the application acceptance window.
If there is an actual factual human looking at the resumes sent in, then yes, it pays to be one of the first 15 or so applicants. BUT many companies now use ATS and give it a week or so to handle the applications before contacting anyone the system says is good enough - that is, someone who has the exact right words the filters caught.
Being applicant 753 doesn't matter anymore if everything is going through these ATS bots because as long as you have the keywords on your resume, you will get through, at least the very first round of bots.