Re:'Ghost jobs' are on the rise – and so are calls to ban them
by harvey9 on Thursday December 18, 2025 @06:46AM
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How come temp agencies would only send someone out on one job? They make money based on placements so unless that worker has bad feedback from clients it would make sense to place them again.
Re:'Ghost jobs' are on the rise – and so are calls to ban them
by jagoff on Thursday December 18, 2025 @08:22AM
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You seem to underestimate their pool of applicants
Re:'Ghost jobs' are on the rise – and so are calls to ban them
by WarOnPrivacy on Thursday December 18, 2025 @01:05PM
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> How come temp agencies would only send someone out on one job?
There was a clique of employees who were tight with management and got recurring work. This wouldn't have been a problem if the temp agency stopped advertising open jobs when their docket was over-full.
Re:'Ghost jobs' are on the rise – and so are calls to ban them
by diego_moita on Thursday December 18, 2025 @07:09AM
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Talking about "ghost jobs" is like talking about "fake news": everyone that does assumes that only others do, not them. Everyone will somehow always pretend to be "the real thing", even to themselves. It is like misleading propaganda, it will always find a way.
The biggest irony is that the majority of HN's own "Who's Hiring" are ghost jobs.
I won't disappear, it won't even decrease, even with regulation.
FF to now and hiring portals silently drop viable applicants for a long list of never disclosed reasons. I know temp agencies that hire, send the employee out on 1 job then never again.
I've never know a time when hiring wasn't crap for entire classes of viable applicants.