A new survey found that almost 40% of companies posted a fake job listing this year — and 85% of those companies interviewed candidates for fake jobs
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Companies said they are posting fake jobs for a laundry list of reasons, including to deceive their own employees.
More than 60% of those surveyed said they posted fake jobs “to make employees believe their workload would be alleviated by new workers.”
Sixty-two percent of companies said another reason for the shady practice is to “have employees feel replaceable.”
Two-thirds of companies cited a desire to “appear the company is open to external talent” and 59% said it was an effort to “collect resumes and keep them on file for a later date.”
What’s even more concerning about the results: 85% of companies engaging in the practice said they interviewed candidates for the fake jobs.
Yeah I observed something similar.
Applied to a job position, got “sorry we already filled that position” back, three weeks later the job position was still listed as open.
(Yes I did fulfill the formal requirements. No I don’t think they were just nicely saying “nope”)
I’ve had so many of these, or they just send a cancellation email 5 minutes before the meeting and never contact again
I’ve been promoted and the company still had to post the job publicly for a couple weeks to satisfy internal protocol. It’s insanity.
I’m wondering if it’s why I don’t get so much as a rejection email for many of the jobs I’ve applied for. It always feels like submitting an application is just tossing it into the void but this study seems to corroborate that.