'Ghost jobs' are on the rise – and so are calls to ban them

Re:'Ghost jobs' are on the rise – and so are calls to ban them by malikolivier on Thursday December 18, 2025 @02:13AM (#46309755)

I know companies that are posting vacancies that currently don't exist in order to keep good candidates on the hook. They tell the candidate that we should keep in touch for when the company is ready to hire them.

I am not sure if it's bad or not. It's true that it kinda wastes the candidate's time. In some cases though, the candidate is so good that the company will create a position just for them.

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Re:'Ghost jobs' are on the rise – and so are calls to ban them by VerifiedReports on Thursday December 18, 2025 @02:24AM (#46309838)

Let's resolve this right now: It's bad.

No... it's worse than that; it's THEFT, and monumentally offensive. It's time that everyone, EVERYONE stop giving entities a free pass on stealing from us by deliberately wasting our time.

In every aspect of life, every hour of our day, we're being ripped off. From the assholes blocking the passing lane, to "ghost jobs," to non-functioning subscription-cancellation phone numbers and Web forms... people should be going apeshit about the despicable and unpunished theft of our time.

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Re:'Ghost jobs' are on the rise – and so are calls to ban them by jagoff on Thursday December 18, 2025 @08:42AM (#46312512)

It's funny, one of two things in this world you cannot replace once gone and we are so open to just giving it away.

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Re:'Ghost jobs' are on the rise – and so are calls to ban them by VerifiedReports on Friday December 19, 2025 @02:36AM (#46323214)

Some are; I'm not.

I should say way too many are; and they act shocked when you take issue with being stolen from... as if YOU'RE the one with the problem. Pathetic.

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Re:'Ghost jobs' are on the rise – and so are calls to ban them by josefrichter on Thursday December 18, 2025 @02:26AM (#46309854)

Oh I am pretty sure it’s bad. I am actually quite shocked someone would ruminate wherever or not it’s bad.

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Re:'Ghost jobs' are on the rise – and so are calls to ban them by colechristensen on Thursday December 18, 2025 @02:14AM (#46309767)

Fraud. The word you're looking for is fraud.

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Re:'Ghost jobs' are on the rise – and so are calls to ban them by pastel8739 on Thursday December 18, 2025 @02:31AM (#46309876)

I feel like if it’s clear from the listing that it’s a catch-all that might not correspond to any real vacancies, it’s fine. Otherwise I think it’s bad, since it’s lying.

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