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1 posted on 03/19/2024 9:12:12 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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Call the company. Ask. On a phone. Like a human. Then you’ll know.


2 posted on 03/19/2024 9:21:19 PM PDT by vpintheak (Sometimes you’re the windshield, sometimes you’re the bug. )
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Speaking of ghost jobs, if anybody living in the Gettysburg PA area wants to make some good money as a part time ghost tour guide, send me a private reply.


3 posted on 03/19/2024 9:22:33 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
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My recent work ended in February, been searching since. It is clear that far too many of the jobs listed on Dice, Indeed, Monster, and LinkedIn are there to collect resumes, keep up appearances, or for phishing, etc. I even exchanged emails with a direct recruiter about jobs on her company's job board and she admitted that many "are 'dummy reqs' to generate a pipeline".

Add to that, 99% of the responses I get are from Indians in India doing the screening.

A month and I have not gotten a single serious interview, no job prospect. Problem is that I am a non-Indian working in IT, a fat old white man.

4 posted on 03/19/2024 9:23:20 PM PDT by Reno89519 (If Biden is mentally unfit to stand trial, he is mentally unfit to be president. He needs to resign.)
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In the 80s and 90s companies that did government contracts and contracts with larger corporations would list ‘ghost jobs’ in the newspapers and trade publications.

The reason was that in order to finish the Requests for Proposals, one section usually wanted to know what kind of pool of prospective job seekers was available.

The bidder basically collected resumes and vitas.

If the company won the contract, many of those jobs became available. If the company lost, layoffs and restructuring ensued.


5 posted on 03/19/2024 9:23:31 PM PDT by TomGuy
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Have to do it like back in the old days. Walk around and ask people if they’re hiring. Too many bots on the web. So you’ll have to know somebody.


6 posted on 03/19/2024 9:27:10 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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Speaking of ghost jobs, if anybody living in the Gettysburg PA area wants to make some good money as a part time ghost tour guide, send me a private reply.


7 posted on 03/19/2024 9:29:35 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
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Indians in the tech industry are playing a game with immigration.

They get laid off and have 60 days to find new job or go back to India.

There are a few very large Indian companies who are giving these people offer letters for work - even though no real job exists and no wage given.

It's just to provide "documentation" that the India has a job in the US so they can continue to use the work Visa - even though the "job" is completely fake.

That culture has no issue with cheating to achieve an end result.

8 posted on 03/19/2024 9:30:08 PM PDT by politicket
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10 posted on 03/19/2024 9:31:26 PM PDT by Pajamajan (Pray for our nation. Never be a slave in a new Socialist America..)
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Over 20 years ago I was told about job postings that were not real and this from newspaper postings. He said they are used to see how many people would be interested.


18 posted on 03/20/2024 12:35:10 AM PDT by minnesota_bound (Need more money to buy everything now)
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It’s a con...companies post job listings, often with ludicrous qualification requirements at ludicrously low pay. Very few apply for the job, which the company never intended to fill in the first place. Company then goes to the government and demands more H1B visas because they tried and couldn’t find qualified employees. Company then imports foreign workers at a fraction of what Americans work for.


20 posted on 03/20/2024 2:52:43 AM PDT by rottndog (What comes after America?)
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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.


23 posted on 03/20/2024 4:22:24 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (If it's Boeing, I ain't going!)
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Many of the job postings are step one in claiming there are no qualified Americans so they need to hire H-1Bs.


28 posted on 03/20/2024 5:50:29 AM PDT by PAR35
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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.


30 posted on 03/20/2024 6:48:37 AM PDT by 38special (I should've said something earlier)
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