Resume Builder, which offers résumé templates, surveyed nearly 650 hiring managers in May and found nearly seven in 10 said it was “morally acceptable” to post fake jobs. Hiring managers credited the move with increasing revenue, morale, and how much workers get done.
Here’s the weird part though-
About seven in 10 of the fake jobs were on a company website or LinkedIn, according to the survey. And, yet, despite all the shenanigans, many fake listings often lead to real interviews — and even employment.
Four in 10 hiring managers said they always contacted workers who applied for made-up jobs. Forty-five percent said they sometimes contacted those job seekers. Among companies that contacted applicants, 85% report interviewing the person.
“A lot of them are getting contacted and interviewed at some point, so it’s not necessarily a black box,” Haller said.
Does that part make sense to anyone?
This is near the top of the list of the stupidest ideas I’ve ever heard.
If a talented person applies to your fake job and you ghost them or string them along, they are not going to apply again when you might have needed them.
After all you already told them that you think they suck.
That’s not how this works, though.
These “jobs” are just a way to acquire talent. A larger company can almost always need a few more “good workers”. So if a really good candidate comes along, they’ll snatch that person, if the candidate is just okayish, they tell them someone else got the job.
Of course it is. It’s a job that doesn’t really exists, but gets advertised.
Honestly, this should be actually illegal. It’s a fraudulent job posting designed to waste my limited time, but it’s okay for these companies to do shit like this because of uh, reasons?
It’s weird that there are basically no protections for job seekers. There are so many scams, abuses, and dangers that are so well documented. There is a very messed up power dynamic and a lot of vulnerability.
Some places are starting to require job postings to include pay ranges, bit that’s hardly enough.
