Job hunting: ghosting and fake job postings

Job hunting today often feels less like a fair selection process and more like playing against the system. You upload your CV, fill in the same information again, go through several rounds of interviews — and then the company does not even tell you the result. According to Greenhouse, 61% of candidates were “ghosted” after a job interview, meaning that the company simply stopped communicating with them. And a job posting online does not necessarily mean that a company is actually hiring. Greenhouse says that in one quarter, 18–22% of postings on its platform were classified as ghost jobs. A ResumeBuilder survey found that 40% of companies had posted a fake job listing during the year, and 3 in 10 companies had such listings active. To make it look as if they were growing. To collect CVs in a database. To test the market. And sometimes to make existing employees feel that the company was looking for reinforcements. So when someone says that young people do not want to work, they may simply have no idea what job hunting looks like today.

Podle Greenhouse bylo 61 % uchazečů po pracovním pohovoru „ghostnuto“, tedy firma s nimi prostě přestala komunikovat.

A pracovní nabídka na internetu ještě neznamená, že firma opravdu někoho hledá. Greenhouse uvádí, že v jednom čtvrtletí bylo 18–22 % nabídek na jejich platformě klasifikováno jako ghost jobs. Podle průzkumu ResumeBuilder dokonce 40 % firem zveřejnilo během roku falešnou pracovní nabídku a 3 z 10 firem měly takové nabídky aktivní.

Aby vypadaly, že rostou. Aby si sbíraly životopisy do databáze. Aby testovaly trh. A někdy i proto, aby vlastní zaměstnanci měli pocit, že firma hledá posily. Takže když někdo říká, že mladí nechtějí pracovat, možná jen netuší, jak dnes hledání práce opravdu vypadá.