Posted on 03/19/2024 9:12:12 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Employers are posting seemingly open roles that were never meant to be filled at all.
The labour market is tightening – and it's getting harder to find a job. In the wake of the Great Resignation, which drove more job vacancies than employers could fill, workers often had their pick of open roles. Now, they have largely lost their leverage among layoffs and budget cuts, and those open positions are increasingly rare.
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".
While the listings may be old, job seekers generally still assume companies are actively hiring for the roles. The truth is more complicated. Some of these are simply not-yet-removed adverts for jobs that have been filled – but some were never meant to be filled at all. These are 'ghost jobs', and they're becoming an increasingly common – and problematic – obstacle for job seekers.
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Another trick I’ve seen in banking is the bank has regular ole accountant or auditor type roles. They’ll add in some tech requirement like the use of a particular information system or platform. They don’t really care if the person has experience with it they just want the job to sound tech-like or technical.
They’ll then claim Americans aren’t trained and don’t have the expertise they need so they “need” to hire an H1b Indian who are generally at least 1/3rd cheaper than an American.
Again, these aren’t even tech jobs. These are just regular accounting and audit roles. Even they are being colonized by cheap labor from India now.
Collecting resumes.
Guaging availability
The jobs you see on linkedin and other job boards are put there to select moonshot candidates who will receive an interview so HR can say the job was posted externally before they hired the internal resource. I have been on both ends of this and it is a common and required practice. Took me four months, several hundred customized resumes and cover letters before I got a sniff. And turns out I was hired because of my age (I’m 63). The company needed a resource with knowledge and wisdom over technical skills to lead a young development team.
Most aren’t as lucky.
Yessir. A smart haircut and a firm handshake will get you everywhere you need to go in life. You just walk right in that door, ask to fill out an application and demand to speak to Mr. General Electric. You tell them you're the man who is going to make his next great light bulb machine. /sarc
Whether you like it, or you don't like it, if you can actually find a phone number for a company, and that phone number actually eventually connects you to a human, nobody who answers it is going to know squat about job postings. Chances of you even finding an email address that gets answered by a human are minimal these days.
You're either going to talk to a salesman who wants to sell you something or a customer service rep who is willing to talk to you because you already bought something from them.
Over the years you undoubtedly worked with all sorts of decent people, some of whom are still in the field.
Best chance is to ping them for ops or leads. The people blasting ads are mostly phishing, Indians who will never hire us, or wokoids who will never hire us. The people who know you will know the value.
“Indians” are thought to be of the Braiman caste. Arrogance is bred in. They are the superior caste.
Someone's still living in the 20th century and out of touch with modern reality.
Many of the job postings are step one in claiming there are no qualified Americans so they need to hire H-1Bs.
I was hired for a job with the state but the office got a call from HQ that I wasn’t diverse enough. They had to fill the position with a black. For years and years, that position was never filled and finally taken down. This was in the 1980s so nothing has changed but maybe an increase in the scam.
At our All Hands Meeting last week where I work they acknowledged and recognized about a dozen new employees. They stood up for applause. Not one white guy in the group.
I hear you. The old-white-man effect is real. I know ‘American’ engineering companies that only have the C-suite in the USA now, everything else is outsourced to India or Mexico.
The only advise I have - target USA staffing companies, let them do the matching work. You’ll probably get something, even if it isn’t your idea of permanent.
“Gettysburg Address”
Clever.
I remember looking for a job demanding that the person had to have more years of experience in a certain CAE software that had even been in existence that long.
Someone has gotten a new job just before covidiocy, and called and spoke to humans. Someone works with millennials and a few Gen Z’ers. Someone knows something about the modern world. Someone is pretty far away from retirement.
I suggest you try looking for a job elsewhere if that’s all the responses you’re getting.
This reminds me of the old Hollywood trick.
They would interview screen-writers and ask them to show how clever they were by sharing some ideas for future movies/tv shows.
They would not hire the candidate—and then years later the best ideas would be used for real movies/shows.
My LinkedIndia feed is a stream of unemployed Tech recruiters, having trouble paying for food & rent.
The jobs aren’t there. Try again in 2025.
Good new term—that is it.
The job of the customer service representative is to get you off the phone.
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