It may seem counterproductive for recruiters to advertise ghost jobs, theoretically wasting their own time as well as that of applicants—but there are incentives for doing so. About 38% say they post fake positions to maintain a presence on job boards when they aren’t hiring, 36% do so to assess the effectiveness of their job descriptions, 26% want to build a talent pool for the future, 26% hope gain insight into the job market and competitors, and 25% want to assess how difficult it would be to replace certain employees, according to the report. Escalera points out that a big reason for posting these jobs is recruiters wanting to improve their business’ image—nearly a quarter also say that fake jobs help their companies look as if they aren’t experiencing a hiring freeze, and one fifth say they post ghost jobs to improve the reputation of their company.
Way to validate our feelings about you, recruiters.
Edit: I’d like to see legislation that goes after “truth in advertising” in this area. This should be illegal. It wastes peoples’ time.
They’re independent stats. You can both assess the effectiveness of your job descriptions and see how difficult it would be to replace certain employees.
Way to validate our feelings about you, recruiters.
Edit: I’d like to see legislation that goes after “truth in advertising” in this area. This should be illegal. It wastes peoples’ time.
Thanks for excerpting the main points, appreciated.
Recruiters are the equivalent of used car salesperson.
At least used car salespeople will actually sell you the car. Apparently recruiters will just lie about ever even having one.
Lol when a used car salesman is fired for being too dishonest, he becomes a recruiter as a fallback.
Those numbers add up to 151%
They’re independent stats. You can both assess the effectiveness of your job descriptions and see how difficult it would be to replace certain employees.