I discovered that in the 1980s and 1990s.
A company would do a proposal for a major contract, government or big business. Part of the requirement was to determine the ‘pool’ of potential area employees with specified qualification. To do that, the company would run job ads in the local papers.
The jobs did not really exist, but they were potential should the proposing company get the contract.
It was/is a common practice. Deceptive, yes.
I’ve been doing job requests on Zip Recruiter for years. A few phone calls, and an occasional interview , otherwise ZIP. Nada. Nothing. Great for generating the paperwork needed for unemployment insurance but otherwise worthless to me. Since most jobs offered only require one click I pursue it anyways.
No surprise, I see job openings on LinkedIn with 20 or 30 applications and the job is still looking...
Some degree of this has been going on a long time. I remember this from @1991-92, the days of the “peace dividend”.
The best response is not to hold out for the perfect fit, but take a lower level position of any sort and either try for promotion, get hired by a vendor or business partner, or just keep looking all the while.
I think recruiters are bad about running ghost ads, so that they maintain a database of people who are looking.
I can see where a company might do that to get a feel for the labor market. A tight market could lead to higher raises. And an oversupply of labor could lead to none.
And of course the ad company themselves might run fake ads for many of the same reasons that twitter and facebook have fake bots.
Call your friends.
Ask them to try to get you in.
Perhaps some companies with stock price growth have applicable openings.
Not hearing back became common almost 40 years ago.
If you want a job, follow up with a letter tailored for that job.
Don’t know how it works in Brandon’s USSA, but in True-dolt’s Canaduh, employers get tax breaks from FedGouvCan for hiring immigrants, be they professionals or be they labourers at Lowe’s or Home Depot. If you are a white, Christian male, you are SOL for employment in PRC (Politically Repressive Canada). IF you have enough equity in your house, you might get a business loan to become self-employed. Again, if you are ‘old stock English Canadian’, expect FedGouvCan to maximize the hurdles you have to vault, just to get your business started.
True-dolt borrowing from Auric Goldfinger, “No, Mr. ‘Old Stock Canadian’, I don’t expect you to succeed, I expect you to die!”
I think its all in the plan....make it seem like nobody is willing to work and wallaaa...usher in more illegals to fill the “need”....
Years ago I long suspected that a lot of these job postings were legit jobs but the employer had no intention of considering resumes they might get from these ads because they already had in mind who they wanted to hire. I suspect those jobs were posted only to cover their butts with EEO.
I used to submit my resume to job after job, week aftwr week, for a couple of years and hardly got any responses.
I had to eventually rely on recruiting firms but atleast I finally got my foot in the door and I would have to temp for a while but it eventually worked.
I remember someone at a job I worked at nearly 20 years ago tell me about ghost jobs after I told them about a job I saw in a newspaper and was near where I lived. I drove by the site but did not see what was advertised and that is when he explained.
Maybe it’s just a matter of you thinking you’re qualified for those jobs but aren’t.
Somebody has a masters degree in women’s studies.
And there you have it. Companies want workers. I post for a technician and get 50 resumes talking all about their management experience. I can train a worker to manage. I can't train a manager to work.
Probably just being overlooked because he’s white (and male).
I’m retired so don’t really care anymore but I’ve got friends in business mainly DoD and they say the quality of candidates they get for job interviews is pathetic. Most don’t want to work at work they want to work from home. Others they look at and don’t even want to interview them and their degrees are impressive but their knowledge doesn’t match what the degree states.
I get at least three calls per week from recruiters and double that in emails. I have no idea what this guy is talking about.
Remember Margaret Thatcher had an expression..”get on your bike” that is go look for a job..n
knock on doors..press the flesh..be pro active.