Publishing false information pays off
A survey of more than 1,600 hiring managers conducted by ResumeBuilder this year shed further light on the ghost job phenomenon. According to the survey, more than 80% of recruiters said they posted jobs without intending to fill them, and 41% indicated that more than half of the jobs were fake. Of tech companies, 40% posted fake jobs in the past year, and 79% of those still had active ads.
The fake ads cover all job levels: entry-level (63%), midlevel (68%), senior-level (53%), and executive (45%). The most common outlets for this disinformation are company websites (72%), LinkedIn (70%), ZipRecruiter (58%), Indeed (49%), and Glassdoor (48%). Most of the phantom listings remain active for a month (31%), a few weeks (28%), and in some cases, a year or more (9%).
Recruiters also declared reasons for these actions, and the spectrum is much wider than one might assume:
