40% of companies/recruiters freely admit to posting fake job listings.
https://www.fiscalreport.com/40-of-companies-admit-to-posting-fake-job-openings/
Entire economy is a rapidly imploding scam.
I worked for a company where I sometimes tried to refer people to positions posted on our website, only to learn from HR that they weren’t real positions and they were posted to meet some legal requirements I wasn’t given details about.
That same company burned 12 internal employees’ time across 350+ applicants and a countless sea of interviews over a 6 month period. We arrived at consensus. Stated who we’d like to hire and were told the req had been closed the day prior. Was it ever real? We’ll never know. Did we waste well into the six figures of people’s time and energy? 100%.
Same company a few months after laid off entire departments, sunset numerous product lines with paying customers, and last I heard the current owners are just keeping it in hobble along maintenance mode and extracting profits before it crashes. Dumpster fire.
Best case scenario, HR is setting up fake jobs to make it look like an internal transfer or promotion was actually competetive.
Worst case scenario, they’re just doing it to pad the numbers of ‘how many new positions we’re looking to fill = we are growing rapidly!’ Stupid shsreholders might buy that.
Super duper worst case scenario, its all a data mining operation on the pool of potential employees… the company is so fucked it has to essentially contract itself out to market research firms.
Those are my 3 guesses.
Your particular situation makes #1 seem unlikely… thats waaay too much man hours devoted to interviews, when the company itself is bleeding out employees.
In fact your company’s situation is so fucking bad that I’d lean toward #3.
Which would mean the entire company is now essentially a fake/scam company that mostly exists as an ostensibly legit front for data harvesting, presuming it was at one point an actual company that actually did… something.
I would be entirely unsurprised if it turns out that, through a series of shell companies, LinkedIn is behind this, just cannibalizing its own real asset, its userbase, as they already know its curtains for them.
Definitely not a fake company, have made a dent in the administrative side of healthcare spaces, but #3 seems plausible.
Another place I worked would do it semi-related to #1 with regards to sponsoring visas - but I never asked too many questions, just in case.
seems like most companies are doing 1-3, in one form or another. most of them just want your resume,a nd likely the private details on the resume to sell.
They do it for H1B visas too, to “prove” they couldn’t get someone on shore
if those jobs are asking if you need visa helps, you know they dont have intention of hiring anyone but a visha holder. biotech does this ALOT, thats one reason why people trying to get into field cant.(excluding you get that rare 1-2year experience prior to graduation)
I was lucky to get the 1-2 years of experience before graduation. I did my associates, got a call center job as a support agent, then worked my way up to their enterprise IT team before starting my bachelors.
It was fun that I got to use my actual job as my internship, although it pretty much was one since the pay was 50% below market. Then I padded my resume and got a job with a federal contractor for 3x that
Then Musk happened
looks like they were treating it like a PE firm from the start.
and sued glassdoors/indeed to removed thier honest forums from unraveling thier unethical behaviours.
Go to restaurants and bars and give them your resume. If corporate isn’t going to work for, or with, you they can fuck off. I gave one bar my resume and now I have a full time job (after eighth months of dishwashing, I got promoted to food prep which comes with mornings shift and more hours)
The rent and utilities are too damn high for me to do that. The amount these jobs are willing to pay is far below what I make at my shitty (because Trump) job.
Ohh tea abt Trump enshittification? I want the deats if you can give them. I’m making $18.50 but I understand thats not achievable for most because capitalism sucks
I work for a government agency and essentially i don’t have a union anymore, they are forcing me to work a terrible schedule(the hours fall outside of public transportation hours), i haven’t sigbed an nda and 8 dont care. I’m being forced to do the job i got a promotion to get away from bevause people keep quitting. It’s just not good being a federal employee, im trying to hold out I’ve been at this job for 10 yeara.
Hey thanks for you public service. Its hard out there! You obviously know better than I do when to quit or keep going.
Potemkin businesses.
Most recent one I got was a phishing scam for Trump accounts for kids (the $1k you can get if your kid was born in a Trump year). This really is a shit timeline.
I’ve had 10 if Trump considers Biden’s presidency his 1 & 1/2 term… Or at least I can find 10
In ten years or so scam messages will be “cheap food sold directly by the farmer”.
Shouldn’t this be ‘not the Onion’? It doesn’t have an.article but it is true
