Isn’t it strange how companies that are continuously opening vacancies for the same position seems like so many candidates have applied but it never filled?
What is ghost job?
According to Forbes, ghost jobs are job vacancies that companies post on various job portals or job search sites, but the company does not recruit the candidates who apply. This is why many candidates applied a job vacancy doing so many rounds of interview, test, and follow-up… but the results never came out.
According to a survey conducted by Clarify Capital, 68% of active job postings advertised for 30 days or more and with more than a thousand applicants are confirmed to be ghost jobs or ghost hiring. Why would they do this such thing?
This phenomenon can create a frustration and lost time of jobseekers, especially if they are fresh graduates who are desperate on getting into entry level jobs, most of them probably delaying applying for other and real opportunities out there.
Then why do companies open ghost jobs?
Companies often collecting resumes for future needs or they like to be called talent pooling. In other instances, they just want to test candidates without the intention of hiring quickly. There are many things to consider in the recruitment process. It could be that the company initially looked for candidates but halfway through the position was already filled by an employee who held two positions. That’s what sometimes makes a job vacancy become a ghost job.
How do you know if the company is ghost hiring? What are the signs of ghost job?
Ghost jobs sometimes has a very general job description, since they didn’t actually need to hire people in the near future and if they contacted and had you waiting for months with no follow up and clear recruitment process, there’s a high chance it’s a ghost job.
So.. what do you think? Comment if you have ever experiance ghost job!
