Posted on 07/07/2024 4:14:58 PM PDT by grundle
As many as 4 in 10 companies say they have posted a job listing this year that doesn't exist, while 3 in 10 say they're currently advertising for a role that isn't real, according to a May survey of over 600 hiring managers from the career site Resume Builder. Tim Paradis, future-of-work correspondent for Business Insider, joins CBS News to explain why some companies are doing this, and how you can spot the fake postings.
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"While seven in 10 hiring managers say that they believe the practice is morally acceptable and beneficial for business, it complicates job seekers' searches for work, and can also erode their trust in companies."
I can't imagine why trust would erode....
At the university level I think it is an attempt to disguise sexual harassment or maybe it’s to pad the department’s budget.
Do they get more money if they say they’re going to hire a student, and then they interview, and then they say no one was qualified; we need to buy equipment instead?
I’ve said I had to forfeit a couple of work-study grants...there were a couple of jobs I called up about...there was maybe a month or so left in the school year. I thought if I got the job, maybe I could stay on for the summer at no subsidy.
Of course they were looking for someone with more experience. I’m reasonably sure the jobs were never filled.
They’ve been doing this for at least 10 years. For kicks, Hubby visits HR sites at companies he’s worked for — high tech, defense, science. It’s a joke. We think it’s to make investors, etc., think they’re hot commodities.
It is real problem. I recently had a recruiter from 1 cut me confide debt three out of four of her company is John postings were fake, just to collect resumes, And gage the market.
I give up! I do not know what Siri and AutoCorrect are doing to my post. The initial typing is accurate, then if I don’t wait, it gets changed into that gibberish like what just posted.
Wait til Bots start chatting with each other - they’re going to creat their own language
They are giving the HR busy work to keep them from crashing the company with stupid policies.
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When we were running smoothly, we had to keep the boss busy with something or he would get bored and want to move or reorganize us.
Just leave some paper in the Xerox machine. Something bogus about some other company invading out specialty or whatever to get him running to his bosses and leave us alone.
That has been done since I started job hunting.
1968.
They won't turn away a very good candidate, but they're not looking for an average job seeker.
-PJ
I know a younger guy who lost his manual labor job a couple weeks ago and he's desperate to find a job.
He's been responding to help wanted ads (don't know where) and he gets no response.
There are two big manufacturing companies within 5 miles from me, both have huge signs on their building that they are hiring and list their phone number.
I called one earlier this summer and was referred to another phone number that I suspect was a professional staffing company that they are using for their hourly recruiting.
In the late 1990's of my plant in Detroit, we relied on one such agency to recruit, interview and test all potential hourly workers who came from the dregs of society on Detroit's near east side........but that's another story.
But you're right Laz, that is horrible what these companies are doing.
Data collection.
Also to fool current and prospective shareholders into thinking the company is going strong and hiring.
I ran into this too. After my first 40 applications, I started looking deeper into the company and tracking down current employees and their contacts to see if there was a common connection. Then I only applied to companies I knew were looking. People were using bots to dump resumes using keyword searches and it was difficult to get a resume read when there were 90+ applicants in less than 15 minutes.
I wouldn’t want to work for a company that is dishonest as to post fake job.
Posting a fictional job is S O P for recruiters. Get someone into the web and then shop them around to a company that will take a peek and see if that seed terminated into a commission.
They have done this for years to get around “tried to hire an American first” requirements for H1B hires.
I spent my life in HR for a tier I manufacturing plant in Detroit.
If our plants or corporate headquarters needed management level personnel, we relied on recruiters.
At the plant level, during the 70', 80's and early 90's, we could easily fill the occasional non skilled production jobs with friends and family of existing employees without having to report any job openings to the Michigan Employment Security Commission (MESC).
Enter the 90's, we were required to notify the MESC of job openings and during those years, we required tons of employees to work part time on weekends starting Friday night thru Sunday to cover the required manpower of employees who chose not to work the weekends.
That opened the flood gates and the local MESC was sending every gutter rat on Detroit's east side to our plant to apply for jobs.
We had to hire an outside contractor to deal with all these people who were flooding to our plant.
We set them up with their own office and their job was to accept the applications, choose potential candidates, call them in for interviews and testing and refer the potentials to us in HR to complete the hiring process.
Based on the lack of quality of employees we hired, it was a constant revolving door. Workers would work their first weekend and never return..........
Our main lobby was filled with these degenerates who were causing a disturbance, so our HR manager went out into the lobby to ask them to quiet down and one of the "potential workers' got into an argument with the HR manager and punched him out.
On another occasion, one of the "potential workers" was caught upstairs in the bathroom shooting up.......
Bkmrk
Well paid industrial jobs have used this strategy since at least the 1990s.
A temp agency - like Manpower or Kelly - hires you for a time restricted sub-contract job to the manufacturer.
The temp agency drug tests you, performs skill and language tests, monitors your attendance and on time record, checks all your references, etc.
If the employer likes what they see, you get hired. If not, you get laid off when the sub-contract ends. The temp agency has no liability because of the time restriction. The manufacturer has no liability because the temp agency did all the recruiting and testing.
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