Analysis
Job hunting: ghosting and fake job postings
According to Greenhouse, 61% of candidates were ghosted after a job interview, while 18–22% of postings in one quarter were classified as ghost jobs.
Key findings
According to Greenhouse, 61% of candidates were ghosted after a job interview, while 18–22% of postings in one quarter were classified as ghost jobs.
Explanation
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.