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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That is evil!
It is done primarily to survey the job market and see what kind of responses they get to different salary levels.
For higher level salaried positions, at least 50 percent of advertised jobs are never filled. They are not real job openings and were never intended to be filled. This practice has been going along for decades.
It is cheaper to pay for fake job ads and tally the responses than it is to purchase real salary studies from consulting firms. And, as others have noted, it makes a company look better if they appear to be hiring new employees.
Collected resumes are usually discarded after being tallied. Some companies do keep applications for years, mostly so they can prove "non-discrimination" in accepting applications for consideration. Companies almost never hire from those collections.
In real hiring situations, managers want fresh resumes obtained from current advertising. They prefer younger people, within ten years of their own age, and they prefer people who are currently employed but looking to move to a better position. They have a desperate need to fill a position and they usually do that within 60 days of advertising with the first or second plausible applicant that HR presents to them. HR rarely presents more than five or six applications.
Outside of those parameters, the chances of hiring are lower. Still, it is better than the odds of a lottery ticket. There are always exceptions to the average as well. I have experienced several of them in my own career.
They want to put or promote existing people to positions but have to say they looked for a DEI candidate.
Loving ALL of the replies, to my post!
Thx.
This is false-advertising and should be illegal. In this case, they’re advertising a job. It’s no different than selling a product that doesn’t exist. It’s still illegal if no money is changing hands. The company is getting something out of it, otherwise they wouldn’t be doing it.
If Siri and AutoCorrect are doing that to you, the answer is obvious: turn them off.
IF the job listing makes unreasonable demands like asking for references and experience, checking resume claims, evaluating on merit rather than skin color, and not allowing you to sit in your jammies and claim you’re working from home, it’s obviously fake.
A good many job postings are phishing scams. You believe you’re applying for a job, and they get your information for identity theft.
Lying to investors to make them think the company is healthier than it is is illegal, how is the SEC not onto this? This is no different than what Jack Welch was doing to General Electric. He was shuffling money around the company so that accounting systems would see the transactions as gains, which would fool the accounting systems into “thinking” that company earnings were higher than they really were, which would artificially drive up the stock price. That practice is now illegal. It caused General Electric to go into a 15-year spiral into bankruptcy. When he left, new management could only slow down the inevitable crash, they couldn’t stop it.
It kills me how Jack Welch is still a celebrity in a lot of business and investing circles when he’s actually the worst kind of scumbag around. That’s how it is in big-business: if you’re not cheating, you’re not trying and going to jail isn’t a bad thing, it means that you did everything you could to succeed.
Off-topic.
Yep. The fabled American worker. I had one hauled out of our plant handcuffed to a gurney. If an employee didn’t return from break they were probably OD’d in the restroom. That was 30% of our head count. Constant turnover. These are white young males and females. Couldn’t get anyone to pass basic math or reading comprehension. Had to adopt digital tape measures so they could look see copy the numbers. Gave up on that and just used two lines on a stick.
No lectures on pay, please. It was good and had great benefits.
Most of the Mexicans who stayed after picking tomatoes and got on with us were fantastic. They reminded me of the truly fabled Appalachian Mountains workers of yore. You hired family members and if Jr stepped out of line one of the parents or uncles busted his butt. Mostly catholic or Pentecostal and very conservative and anti open borders. As I now understand it, this demographic are Trump voters.
So they can import a foreign national on a H-1b visa thus fulfilling the need to “post a job” and they couldn’t find an American to do it.
No BS please. Post the salary and benfits or STHU.
I hope YOU or one of your family doesn’t get run over by a drunk Mexican illegal or raped by an illegal alien. I’d hate for that to happen.
This has been true for years. Remember how businesses claimed they were begging for employees, but no one wanted to work? People looking for work knew it was a lie.
I heard another reason businesses post fake help wanted ads is to qualify for pandemic-era (Paycheck Protection Program?) loan forgiveness from the federal government.
There are also activist players that post fake job postings knowing it will attract conservative applicants and they then use your resume info to cancel you.
I know a business owner who does that whenever he starts an LLC.
They were doing this back in the 80’s. However back then it was more costly to the applicant. There were no online applications since it was pre internet, so you had the vost of stationary, printing, envelopes, and postage and in some cases college transcripts. The biggest offender of this was the Federal government. They would post job listings that were already filled before the job was posted.
This is a practice that has been going on since the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was enacted and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission was established as the “enforcer” of Affirmative Action policies. If a company wanted to sidestep the possibility of being accused of discrimination and they wanted to hire a “specific person” for a position, they would run ads for the job in question and actually go through interviews with a spectrum of applicants so they had “due diligence” protection from accusations of discrimination, knowing full well who they were going to hire, all the while having onboard an employee they wanted to slot into the position. It’s not that the job doesn’t exist, it’s that the company is covering itself for an internal job-creation which could cause it problems under federal law if it is not handled “properly”.
That’s SICK!
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