Posted on 11/18/2025 8:59:06 PM PST by RomanSoldier19
The U.S. labor market has long been measured by the number of job openings, but a closer look reveals a troubling truth: Not all postings are real opportunities.
An analysis of the Bureau of Labor Statistics Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS) shows a structural imbalance. Millions of job postings never result in an actual hire, creating what’s become known as the “ghost job economy.”
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“The days of having a career are over, many companies look as workers as resources and cast away at a whim...”
Then we have to do what we have to do: federal laws against worker exploitation, because if not then we get some style of communist revolution
In 2012, I noticed an engineering tech recruiter’s posting on LinkedIn claiming that she had 147 full time positions to fill but 4 months later, the same 147 jobs were still available...WTF!
I probably have the same chance of landing that gig.
Those ghost jobs are cover for hiring an imported H-1B visa slave.
many government and college jobs are still reserved for favored “diversity” candidates
so if you can’t check the desired racial box, the computer will erase/shred your application right at the outset
(or just let you continue working through the application process but with a DNH — do not hire — notation secretly astericked by your name... so you wind up having your time wasted... this can continue for several months...)
we live in an extremely racist, discriminatory society (at least with these “diversity” racist, sexist, etcetera programs so firmly in place in so many places)
Cover for h-1b
Stop importing workers via visas like H-1b . Do that and see how American workers will suddenly be treated with respect. It would be like a light switch.
Indeed is useless
It’s funny. I have real jobs I need to get filled.
200 in fact. Welders, fitters, general labor, engineers, shop foremen, VP marketing, HR. Making pressure vessels.
We pay way high, probably double what you’d make in the Gulf Coast.
But people don’t want to go where the work is.
Ghost jobs are the result of unfair labor practices. Jobs are posted by companies that have already been filled by internal job postings, but due to laws, the job has to be posted externally for five days. And at least one of the candidates has to be DEI. We called it a moonshot hire.
GEE, I really WANT TO BELIEVE JASMINE, BUT.....
One job opening results in many postings by many recruiters.
How much of this is just the nature of modern tech/manager jobs that are asking for extremely specific people and taking forever to fill?
I’ve spots open for several months. These people exist, but I’m not just going to hire somebody “almost good enough” because the wrong person would be fatal.
But people don’t want to go where the work is.
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In todays production lots of jobs are now ruled
by computer/mechanical devices that don’t need
minute by minute onsite control by humans. Yep
the work force is changing rapidly. People will
have to change with it.
They use someone else’s credentials, reputation, and work history to get the job. They are fraudsters.
Think Stolen Valor on a civilian level.
“But people don’t want to go where the work is.”
People simply can’t move anymore. And very few companies will pay relo (certainly not for non executive jobs). This was at one time a great advantage that the US labor force had over the rest of the world.
I believe you, but why can’t they move? Don’t want to lose a low rate mortgage? The spouse has a job?
Well, this is building the things that build things.
It’s (ironically) a lot of one-off or limited production, custom work not suited to automation. Not repetitive, at all, except the giant press brake and robotic seam welder for a 20 yard long weld. Oh, and paint/coating robots.
Most everything is designed, cut, assembled, and installed by hand as a one off solution to a particular problem.
“I believe you, but why can’t they move? Don’t want to lose a low rate mortgage? The spouse has a job?”
1. The workforce is older
2 two income households are normal and often 50/50 on income
3. Moving is increasingly expensive
4. “Unexpected” costs in moving can be shockingly expensive, many people have no real safety net
5. How many jobs are available to the middle non executive class where you can be certain of your employment more than three months from now?
IDK how any of these things can be fixed in less than a generation, never mind, in two years.
SEE POST 9
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