More companies are posting fake job listings. Here's how to spot them.

As many as 4 in 10 companies say they have posted a job listing this year that doesn't exist, while 3 in 10 say they're currently advertising for a role that isn't real, according to a May survey of over 600 hiring managers from the career site Resume Builder. Tim Paradis, future-of-work correspondent for Business Insider, joins CBS News to explain why some companies are doing this, and how you can spot the fake postings.
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[@ChrisCastro-to5vb]

This should be illegal

[@antoniobabb1938]

Very Illegal it’s misinformation

[@JebusHypocristosX]

Yes this. How is this even legal?

[@ryancruze5396]

Exactly

[@johnnguyen4152]

As long as it makes this current adminstration look good, it's legal. 😂

[@John-J-Preston]

The reality is with so many educated people flooding the job market year after year, it’s the highly skilled ones that get jobs. I work in a niche industry and my level is extremely specialized. We have an evergreen job posting that we put out there for the sole purpose of testing the waters. If a perfect candidate came along we’d hire them in a heartbeat but so far that hasn’t happened and we’ve hired from internally other departments and trained them up. If you’re a new graduate you better have a STEM, economics or finance degree and graduated in the top 10% of your class otherwise employers aren’t gonna give you a chance….

[@philoctetes_wordsworth]

This should be illegal. How is this not fraud?

[@Karlswebb]

Because it is done by companies who are part of the ruling class. The administrative state tends to not mobilize against members of the ruling class as they are the ones with capital (power in a capitalistic society)

[@theroaringshadows]

It is fraud, they are WASTING YOUR TIME, MY TIME AND DESPERATE AMERICANS TIME!!!

[@danielzhang1916]

it's all rigged, they like making people go through 8 interviews and hoops, no wonder people stop applying

[@Novastar.SaberCombat]

Ultimate power, wealth, popularity, and global influence will always corrupt those who possess them. Always. No exceptions.

[@ragingjaguarknight86]

OP is onto something. If they're knowingly placing fake job ads, than maybe they should be sued for fraud.

[@torrisali2082]

They should be facing lawsuits for wasting people's time.

[@Novastar.SaberCombat]

Nope. The ruling class gives itself a free pass on every occasion. And when things are too egregious, they simply pay a fine and continue forward. #ProfitsOverPeople #CoinOverCommunities

[@SgtJoeSmith]

same with applicants that submit fake applications and dont show up to interviews or 1st day.

[@Timbrock1000]

Wasting time? It takes all of 60 seconds to fill out a brief application and send in a resume` on Indeed.

[@bobshanery5152]

@@Timbrock1000 Not been in a job market for awhile but they clearly take more time then that. Interviews for jobs that are not actually hiring can waste hours. Many companies also have you fill out their own application which can take an hour or so. Then there is tests, phone calls etc that could all be for nothing and take few hours more.

[@Timbrock1000]

@@bobshanery5152 Companies are not going to waste their time on interviews unless they anticipate hiring someone. Yes, filling out their online application might take take some time, but usually, they start with the basic pre filled application provided by Indeed before asking to go forward from that. At the very least, an applicant is able to get their name into HR. Maybe in the future, the HR will call them back for a real position.

[@fjm1235]

This should be illegal.

[@Novastar.SaberCombat]

Only the wealthy and powerful could make that decision. And seeing as doing so would harm them, they'd never permit it.

[@elliottharris9015]

We are in a second gilded age.

[@jazzman7167]

People need jobs, not fake hope!

[@AdeleiTeillana]

How is it fake hope if they're actually using the practice to recruit and hire for real jobs? People are still getting jobs, maybe even jobs they wouldn't have thought to apply for, and they can always say no if the job they're offered isn't what they're looking for.

[@danielzhang1916]

it's all a game to them, they don't care about giving hope, it's all rigged from the beginning

[@danielzhang1916]

@@AdeleiTeillana why are they allowed to have fake listings, that doesn't make it okay to do stuff like this

[@AdeleiTeillana]

@@danielzhang1916 Why is it not OK if they actually do use the resumes to fill positions?

[@danielzhang1916]

@@AdeleiTeillana just because they hire people, doesn't excuse fake listings, then I could say I'm hiring 10 people but only 2 actually get in, I guess that's okay for you

[@Charlie-phlezk]

And they complain they can't hire anyone? 😂

[@libramoon9968]

Exactly!!!

[@danielzhang1916]

they don't even look at 95% of people, just want the "perfect" person

[@NYRyder1983]

And have the audacity to claim that "nobody wants to work anymore".

[@yanasosnovskaya864]

@@danielzhang1916 exactly, I feel like I'm holding a glass in glass room when I'm going thru interview process. Any wrong slight move, all glass shutters.

[@danielzhang1916]

@@yanasosnovskaya864 and the glass already has cracks in it when you walk in

[@domspeakslife]

I’ve been saying this for months……. “ghost jobs” should be illegal!!

[@docfabz]

So how to spot them: 1.if they've been posted for too long and 2) if it's not listed on the company website. Cool.

[@Xenon-4300]

Or if it just looks suspicuous, he guesses.

[@ginacleveland7995]

​@@Xenon-4300....he really wasn't much help, was he?🙄

[@ValenciaRose.]

There are fake jobs on the company websites too

[@hakeemsd70m]

These companies are notorious for posting ghost jobs, those 30+ day old applications that linger on their official website.

[@clean_rene]

They still be fake even when listed on the company website!!

[@julieboolie1946]

Sickening, wasting people's valuable time....

[@Novastar.SaberCombat]

Humanity excels at doing just that.

[@ST-rj8iu]

@@Novastar.SaberCombat so true. We have created many of our biggest problems.

[@slowbro1337]

This is why I dont care that I use Ai to crank out resumes and job applications.

[@Novastar.SaberCombat]

That's the ultimate goal: A.I. job postings attracting A.I. "responses" from people who don't exist for jobs which aren't there. Utopia, for certain.

[@ashleyshim2078]

😂😂😂😂​@@Novastar.SaberCombat

[@anuragchakraborty8766]

Joke’s still on you …. at the end of the day AI isn’t gonna pay your bills nor help you keep a roof over your head

[@therowgawd]

@@anuragchakraborty8766oh yes it will

[@jasonzhu9742]

Depends on how you use AI though. Money can definitely be made with the help of AI

[@raviv4100]

Ppl getting calls and landing interviews applying to fake job postings ? Srsly, that’s some real bullcrap.

[@charlesarnette6472]

They're saying that they might get a callback but not for the job they applied for, but for a real role that actually exists.

[@lisab.6714]

good old bait and switch

[@danielzhang1916]

most people don't even get calls or emails back, it's all rigged from the beginning, this is their game

[@Novastar.SaberCombat]

This has been a thing for decades if not a century.

[@Crismodin]

Yeah, did he say something like 85% of resumes got a callback? That logic doesn't check out. That survey is fake.

[@MoriartySan]

"Make employees feel replaceable" what did workers ever do so bad to make these companies treat us like this. This is genuinely amoral behavior. This can't keep going on like this

[@anuragchakraborty8766]

Workers shot themselves in the foot by mass procreating and driving down their own value. Simple concept of supply and demand. Guess what happens when there’s a hundred desperate starving workers for every available job position? They lose all their leverage and bargaining power!

[@JebusHypocristosX]

#EatTheRich is going to be a way of life, real soon.

[@aavvcc]

Employees cost companies money. Companies don’t like to spend money.

[@JebusHypocristosX]

@@aavvcc Employees are hired when there is demand for the product or service the company is offering, not for sh!ts and giggles.

[@noseboop4354]

​@@JebusHypocristosXStill waiting. It's been EatThePoor for over 40 years now.

[@theroaringshadows]

It's true I have applied for over 100 jobs. I have only had 5 or 6 call backs. I have wasted 30-45 minutes on each application. time thieves!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@thewolfofswingthat2035]

use an AI to fill in the applications for you lol

[@theroaringshadows]

@@thewolfofswingthat2035 Thank you... i will check that out!

[@danielzhang1916]

same here, 5 or 6 calls if you're even lucky, they don't even reply to 99% of people, it's all rigged

[@smrk2452]

This was me 10 years ago

[@sayitaintso7544]

Wow companies have reached a new low. Then they wonder why theres no loyalty to them.

[@joshjosh575]

Data mining. They take that data and sell it.

[@RantRantJoe]

Yeah. Fishing info like how much you are getting paid at your previous/current job.

[@EdwardM919]

Probably exactly what it is, definitely need to be taxed harder if they pull this crap.

[@TastemyAtrocity]

Bingo. Everyone is on the business of data. Your grocer, your phone company, your potential employer.

[@joshjosh575]

@@TastemyAtrocity now they know your income, your SS number, previous work history, Age, birthday, education, emergency contacts. They pay nothing for this data, and sell it for a large profit. They didn’t do anything but post imaginary jobs to the desperate Americans.

[@annat6249]

Exactly. Closer to the door, employees need to prove very private info like ssn

[@therowgawd]

this is why u should have zero loyalty to a company you don’t own. It’s never personal. Just business

[@andrewmayham7388]

This is false advertisement. It is illegal to mislead people like this.

[@Novastar.SaberCombat]

Only for the non-elites.

[@andrewmayham7388]

@@Novastar.SaberCombat you can advocate for the removal or report false advertisement. I'm not lying, when I see an 'obvious' A.I deepfake of Mr.beast or some high profile individual promoting some products or applications of any kind on fb or other platforms- that I report them. I actually did this more than 5 times with advertisements displaying obvious deep fakes of Mr.beast proclaiming nonsense 😤 In all aspects of false advertisement, awareness is key. Desperation is being taken advantage of by the higher class whether it's gambling, monopolizing or just using the gullible.

[@Odiee99]

You would have to prove that the particular company is lying.

[@Ezero8]

Those companies should be sued by job seekers.

[@NadiaZoe1111]

My exact thoughts

[@KA9DSL]

Your are correct! Being a laid off TV Radio Broadcast Engineer, it's happen me several times, this should be illegal.

[@MelaniaRose]

Totally agree

[@djhero0071]

Hearing about stuff like this makes me wonder if the job economy is actually much worse than companies are willing to admit. This really should be illegal.

[@ValenciaRose.]

It is worse for sure!! Unemployment is a lot higher than what they are admitting to. Inflation is up. The car industry is slowly crashing and hopefully housing will too as well as rent prices.

[@advocacynaccountablity]

More likely that the economy is actually much better than companies would have you believe. So we can say, poor companies, guess we should bail you out so you'll create more jobs (this has always been a BS idea).

[@purplesprigs]

Just as bad: Many actual positions are created for the sole purpose of giving the job to a specific person (friend, neighbor, etc.). When you do get an actual interview for a real job, it is highly likely that you have ZERO chance of getting the job. The companies just require hiring managers to interview 3 candidates.

[@iamhereblossom1588]

100% true. People get their friends and family in and the poor stay poor because they don’t know the wealthy.

[@L32C-yg9hm]

I mean that's just common sense. Friends help friends. You'd do the same.

[@usetheforce9836]

I've actually gone through this crap at least once. I did the whole interview with a guy who seemed nice enough. Went through my experience and learned about the skills they were needing, which, as far as I could tell, seemed like a pretty good match to what they were needing. Really, everything seemed to be going really well, as I had a solid answer for most every question & provable examples of my work experience. It wasn't until about the end of the interview, when, with some expectation, I asked a question regarding when they would make a decision. Without getting too specific, his answer indicated to me that they very likely had an 'inside' candidate in mind for the role. It wasn't until I left their office & got in my car that I realized it was likely a complete waste of my time and effort, not to mention having to take time off from my job at the time.

[@monicarenee7949]

I went through this. Got through like 4 rounds of interviews, to finally interview with the presidents of the businesses I would work with. Final decision was made for the person they already had in mind. Hiring manager said they all wanted me on the team and would try to find a way to get me on in another position. Like why even waste my time!

[@paddyoak1]

This happened to me. It’s the crappiest feeling.

[@Vektor-Gaming-and-Design]

This is disgusting.

[@stephanieyvonne9436]

Wow! Companies being dishonest! What a shocker! They have no shame.

[@Novastar.SaberCombat]

And amazingly enough, companies are supposedly run by people. Humans. Or, at least, "those who once were". 🙄

[@costylezz]

Corporate citizens at their finest...

[@dianaoscar8896]

Haha 🤣 why are people surprised that they are living up to their name.

[@bargdaffy1535]

Oh Hell, this has been going on for at least 4 years now. Posting jobs for Master Degree Level work at $15 an hour, C'mon.

[@UmmYeahOk]

But people don’t apply for those jobs for that very reason. Then employers claim laziness, stating “people just don’t want to work these days.”

[@danielzhang1916]

it's gotten completely out of control, you shouldn't need a PhD to get an entry job, they don't want to train anyone

[@djayjp]

No, instead it's advertised as high pay with low qualifications.

[@billleeee]

I graduated college in 1991 and got an on campus interview with a very well known MAJOR corporation during one of the university’s job fairs for graduating seniors. At the end of the interview when I asked about next steps, the interviewer said, “well, we don’t have any positions open right now, but we’re trying to see what’s out there.” A year later, at my first job after college, my boss’s boss came into the office furious because someone on the team had responded to a blind job ad that had ostensibly been placed to see if anyone was unhappy and looking for a new job (and clearly they were).

[@aliannarodriguez1581]

@@danielzhang1916Yeah there’s another video of Dimon complaining that companies have to do some training of new employees, they should pop out of college already knowing all the systems for his company.

[@SullyAfgarshe]

Yet another sign that this country has lost its way

[@Novastar.SaberCombat]

The global population. Humanity has long, looonnng lost its way. The signs and data points are many, and the copium is strong.

[@AX-sq5vm]

Hire more Indian No scam 😂

[@Adam-nw1vy]

Wow. Ina af qarshe weeyaan 😂

[@SullyAfgarshe]

@@Adam-nw1vy guilty as charged 💪🏾

[@larrybroadwater2759]

And people wonder why the younger generation doesnt want to give their lives away working for companies that pull this crap!

[@Nagroddy]

We live in a society where corporations are treated better than citizens because lawmakers are their some of their shareholders. That allows corporations to pretty much get away with all kinds of unethical actions and behaviors.

[@SeerSeekingTruth]

Yet most people shop corporate every single day and have their 401k’s and retirement in the same stock market. People in general are the reasons for this.

[@Jack74u2]

At my previous company, if a manager wanted to promote someone, HR had a policy that the manager must post a job opening externally. This was to see if there were any better candidates. The hiring manager would have no intention of hiring anyone as the manager already had an employee identified for the promotion.

[@BK-qp8zp]

Same in Federal hiring.

[@medusagorgon8432]

"Sneaky"???!!! It should be illegal. Call this crap out live. wtf

[@_ata_3]

Most of the time you never know they were fake because even for real job posts companies don't get back to you ever

[@Bradimoose]

i went to an interview with several executives which I thought was wierd and and all kept asking what software I was currently using. A fishing expedition to find out info from competitors.

[@googleusergp]

I had the same thing years back. They kept asking me about how my current company did certain things, and my response was to constantly steer it back to the position at hand. They got the point. Plot twist: They went out of business the same day I got my current job 20 years ago.

[@m.n.tarrint9187]

Honestly this video was useless regarding advice. Most of us watching this have already been watching more detailed videos of the fake jobs issue and know that companies are trying to project an illusion of more company expansion that is legit and that they do tell their employees they are "hiring" and just to hang in there, all the while squeezing as much as they can out of existing employees so the company doesn't have to pay out salary, benefits, training costs, etc. Training depts have really downsized and so have HR departments. There has been a move in the last few years to outsource HR work. We know the causes. We need to take moves to get out of this stupid mess. Labor boards should step in and squash this crap.

[@bearswithglasses]

If a post seems fishy, *REPORT IT* to the job search site. If it's older than 30 days, automatically report it. If we report *everything* that seems remotely fishy, job sites will be inundated and have to take a more proactive stance. Putting pressure on them will ultimately put pressure back on the companies posting. *Just. Report. It.* Fraud should be illegal across the board.

[@Gregory-o6v]

Any job listing should be automatically removed after 15 days by job listing websites such as Indeed. Companies reposting the same jobs over and over should be banned by these websites.

[@MelaniaRose]

The government should have a department that monitors these types of incidents

[@DiaryofaBasicBW]

No offense to this lady, but when he said "85% end up in an interview process," my next question would have been, "And what percentage of those interviewed actually land the job that didn't exist?" Because people are spending time and money they don't have being strung along in interview processes that have four or five or six or nine interviews, can take MONTHS and then being ghosted. The job market "looks good" because these companies are falsely reporting job openings so they can benefit from tax breaks. It's cruel.

[@arizonanative7409]

Spot on.... Job searching is horrible anyway, now we have to figure out if a posting is "real." It is hard to trust corporate America, and getting worse!

[@hugodaniel8975]

They make waste their time applying and wait for response calls and emails

[@danielzhang1916]

and 99% of people don't even get calls or emails, it's all a game to them, rigged from the beginning

[@BadStructuralEngineeringFirms]

I started naming and shaming these companies. They are getting angry because I have outed them on my KZbin channel. Because of my KZbin channel, people have decided not to waste their time applying to those jobs because the recruiter admitted the posting was fake. One such person is Stacy Griffith of IMEG. www.youtube.com/@BadStructuralEngineeringFirms

[@danielzhang1916]

they post the job on several sites, and no one seems to actually get hired, it's all rigged and I've seen it before

[@BadStructuralEngineeringFirms]

@@danielzhang1916 This is why I out these employers for doing that. The city of Glendale CA told me they needed assistance reviewing building plans. When I asked the recruiter about the previous position last year, he got really nervous. I discovered that interview was fake.

[@danielzhang1916]

@@BadStructuralEngineeringFirms yeah there should be a blacklist of employers, even the "interview" can be fake, I probably got a few of those, it's all a game to them

[@shavinmccrotch9435]

How typical of companies today, to use people shamelessly, regardless of how it affects the hungry people hopefully applying for work.

[@OU81TWO]

It's due to the mindset of the younger generation who are now in leadership roles within these companies. Their ethics are not the same as the people who were running companies 15-20 years ago. I'm not saying shady business practices didn't happen back then but it's on a whole other level these days. Everything is about money these days. Everyone is scamming one way or another.

[@danielzhang1916]

they don't care about people wanting work, it's all a game to them, making you go through all these hoops

[@Novastar.SaberCombat]

Rich gotta rich.

[@floatpoint1050]

The information contained in your resume is most likely been used by marketing companies as leads (telemarketers, robots, etc).

[@MrStumpson]

Love how "make employees feel replaceable" was on the list, like we truly all just work for evil places don't we?

[@johnvillanueva1240]

avoid applying through indeed and zip recruiter apply through the company websites

[@maryjaneshoe-fm4yr]

Those are the sites I use!

[@danielzhang1916]

indeed and zip are basically useless, they just post on there to get a lot of people

[@deew1390]

Indeed has a lot of fake jobs on its website! I found that out by going directly to the company website and finding out that the job does not exist. Also if you report or flag the job, indeed does not take it down. I completely agree with going directly to the company website.

[@Greenair777]

I feel like even if they are the website it also could be fake as well.

[@adamheuer8502]

You can do that but it doesn’t mean it’s real either. I tried doing this along with going into the actual business to talk to them in person and many told me that they weren’t actually hiring and their website was wrong. It makes sense though. It takes effort to delist jobs from the company website so once they get filled many of these postings just get forgotten about forever until someone decides to clean them out.

[@EdwardM919]

WTF? Fake listings? Great more time wasted! Definitely shouldnt be allowed.

[@the0ne809]

I knew about the fake job listings but I thought it was actually done by some fake companies or something like that, not actual companies posting fake jobs.

[@EdwardM919]

@the0ne809 Yeah, wasting everyone's time using AI to judge who's the best candidates even when AI can't even write a complete sentence. It has a hard time recognizing a resume unless it's in a specific formating as well, and they complain turn overs high and no one wants to work, it probably because the AI picked the worse candidates instead of the best.

[@the0ne809]

@@EdwardM919 pretty much. also, way too many requirements for simpler jobs with low pay. They do not want to teach anything, they just want the worker to have like 5 years of experience at minimum, for some not even good pay job.

[@madge2114]

@Theone809, It has always been that way. In their best interest to get someone willing to jump the bar they set. Why not try for the impossible?

[@madge2114]

Good reason to lie on your resume.

[@bmorezoo]

... He said a lot of nothing. Of course if the job posting is old it might not be available. Of course if a posting looks suspicious it might be fake ... How 'bout giving me new information.

[@Tamar-sz8ox]

Stop wasting peoples time ! That is infuriating!

[@LesserMe]

It's not research, it's fraud. Companies should be held accountable.

[@ajparsons4947]

Imma start putting in fake applications

[@herbertc1114]

Why waste your time?

[@JebusHypocristosX]

@@herbertc1114 AI does it for you.

[@_ata_3]

Next most probable post: "My startup went bankrupt"

[@everythingisfine9988]

@@herbertc1114 can use an AI job resume bot. Small effort F-u's for bs employers. Not a bad use of time

[@RonnieMyers777]

😅

[@vinucini4341]

A genuine question asked by the anchor and a stupid answer given by the correspondent ❤

[@SheLoveSports]

Someone's spirit can be broken by applying to these fake jobs. You never know what someone's breaking point is, how they are struggling, or how they may be losing hope, and any company that does this is cruel.

[@djayjp]

FRAUD. FINE THEM.

[@danielzhang1916]

they could care less about a few thousand dollars, it's all a game to them

[@djayjp]

@@danielzhang1916 The fine should be a percentage of their revenues then (in an ideal world).

[@tech-bore8839]

Really puts a huge dent in the whole "nobody wants to work" argument. Plus, I wonder how much of that personal data they collect on the application is then re-sold.

[@jeffreyradick6486]

Companies doing this to intimidate employees aren't going to pay attention to employees saying "don't do it, it's not nice". They won't say so, but their attitude will be: "you don't like it? There are plenty of people out there to take your place."

[@cuteness51308]

They shouldn’t be allowed to do this! That’s wrong. So many people are looking for jobs and yall are posting fake job ads? While someone is stressing and waiting to hear back on a position they will never get because it’s fake. That’s wrong on so many levels. Def not an employer I wouldn’t want to be employed by. 😅

[@Here4TheHeckOfIt]

This is kinda malicious and sadistic 😳

[@Novastar.SaberCombat]

What gave it away

[@Here4TheHeckOfIt]

@@Novastar.SaberCombat It's obvious to us, but sadly, not to a lot of people. Especially the idiots who thought of posting fake jobs ☹️

[@Reptar4000]

This is why you should get 10 remote jobs. Do what’s best for you not the company

[@xcaliberVirus]

Job interviews and applications are a different form of data collection.

[@isaacstrade9358]

Sounds like false advertising

[@Novastar.SaberCombat]

What gave it away

[@xayapenn]

Often times they plan on hiring internally but still post the job to everyone. They’re wasting everyone’s time and effort. It’s a big show to say they’ve made an effort to look for the best candidate.

[@AHobbistChannel]

That's a huge red flag to avoid that company at all costs. Never accept a position with any company that pulls this.

[@Skoora]

Problem is they create apathy on finding a job to where you stop looking. You almost can’t afford the expenses any more of looking and being ready for work, interviews etc. I’ve applied for so many jobs that are black holes of data mining I haven’t bothered looking for a few months now (luckily I have some savings). I’ll get back into it but it gets very disheartening and yes, it should be illegal to post a ghost job. It should be considered fraud as the objective is to mine and sell your data. It also should be illegal for 3rd party sites to not have a listing link directly to the real position and application, instead of constant re-routing to other sites and jobs to just gather data.

[@xavierjackson2712]

This is infuriating.

[@roythousand13]

Posting fake job postings should be illegal. Especially, in this job market and economy!

[@JohnSmith-qe6fb]

They want to waste your time.

[@danielzhang1916]

no wonder people have given up, they don't want to deal with all this nonsense

[@exeterline1930]

Wasting the time and energy of a struggling population. It should be illegal.

[@everythingisfine9988]

Everyone being interviewed should receive a check for time spent

[@francisko338]

So, lying on the job app should be no issue then? Seems fair.

[@ryanreedgibson]

I don't use these sites and never respond to a job listing. My time is more valuable when the company is so lazy.

[@WeylandLabs]

Mainstream media finding out ghost jobs are real ? 😂 You think that would be illegal !

[@noobsaibot299]

This reminds me of the time I applied for a job… and didn’t get a notification saying they reviewed my application until 2 years later. Like bro I’m literally in a different country now lmao

[@tobarstep]

Corporations: we created 100k jobs last quarter! also corporations: 40k of those jobs were fake though! Love us!

[@Adonna2424]

It's terrible trying to find remote only work. I've been searching for two years and most posts are poverty wage or fake. I'm high-risk for Covid so working in person isn't an option. It's a desperate situation. I'm a wonderful hard worker but I can't find a decent remote job. As the person said, you can get contacted but the jobs are poorly paid, no benefits, etc.

[@rezlogan4787]

I think a lot of it is simple laziness. One of the small companies I used to work for went out of business and still has open positions posted after four years. As they were processing severance pay and closing up shop, it was probably the last thing on their mind to delete the job postings. I wonder how many newbies are still sending applications to a long closed company. The postings I found that were real were all managed by robots that would autoreject if you had any arbitrary checkbox missing. I only got hired after sending emails to actual managers who forwarded me to human HR managers. Job hiring is basically broken. HR is permanently out to lunch and has allowed robots to take over every application review. And the bots are even worse at their job than HR, which should be impossible.

[@scott2228]

So much for ethics.

[@Novastar.SaberCombat]

Mankind has always maintained the illusion that they care about ethics. Only the IMPOVERISHED classes are taught to feel guilty over unethical behavior. However, the ruling classes *thrive* on breaking nearly every law in existence. That's how wealth and resources are accrued.

[@frankm7707]

It's cheaper than posting an ad on newspaper. Also it looks good in the stock market and pretending they are doing well.

[@rickazca774]

This has been going for years. Over the years I see an ad for a job in my field. Answer the ad, posy my resume, etc. About a week or two later, I'll get an Email from a "Recruiter" who wants to set up a phone interview. I'll ask what about the job posted in my field and they play dumb. All they want is your info for their data bank and 99% chance you'll never hear from them again.

[@theperpendicular326]

This is not a "sneaky" practice, as the anchor woman puts it. It is outright fraudulent. Time theft is still theft. The only solution would be legislation to require the job poster to clearly identify the fake postings as such. The term for it is EOI - Expression of Interest, which means a posting is not intended to fill a currently open position, but rather to collect resumes for a potential future opening. This would still allow the employers to post to their hearts' content, and the job seekers to filter out the EOI postings wholesale.

[@BrownAintBlack]

And another messed up part is that employers are first one's to talk about what ppl shouldn't be doing on company time, treating ppl like time thieves smh America is a sad place

[@NoOne-st7rb]

I would never work with or be a customer of that company again. Sadly, it would not even be the first company to loose my business based on an employment interview.

[@ORO323]

There should be legislation to make this illegal. There’s people who’re legitimately looking for work but are wasting their time due to these fake postings. Seems like fraud to me.

[@frankgrabasse4642]

This is a common tactic with "consultants". They use it to see how many candidates are in an area for different roles. If they report plenty of people for job X then the companies know they can move into a given area. Or that they can pay less.

[@phillynurse9492]

This is common in nursing. Nurses complain about low staffing levels and mandatory overtime. HR posts positions and they are never filled, even when we refer candidates they never get a call from H.R.

[@lothean2099]

I hope workers there just quietly quit them.

[@RaAa-e7r]

It should be illegal, the corporations should be fined and boycotted

[@igoldenknight2169]

Not only that but there are SO many scams

[@KA9DSL]

Being a laid off TV Radio Broadcast Engineer, it's happen me several times, this should be illegal, you hear that Linkedin?

[@ExpatSpot]

Oh but wait "you as the employee" produce a fake result to them "YOU'RE FIRED" for Fraud but when they do it to you it's "OK" ??????

[@justins2536]

That is ok, I’m a fake job applicant. I apply to jobs that I don’t want with fake resumes. Let’s just call it even.

[@mcmans.]

HIRED. When Can You Start ?

[@dirtymike1274]

This is evil.

[@nadiknit5806]

My daughter just went through this… almost every “part time” job she applied for ended up being full time when she showed up at the interview and a completely different job than she applied for. Its terrible.

[@rcas350pilot8]

How would these damn companies feel if someone got into a car accident on the way to an interview for one of these fake jobs. Think I can answer my own question.

[@MarkSeve]

Serious time killer for those of us looking for work.

[@jeffd72703]

It’s VERY frustrating to job seekers! 😡

[@THall-vi8cp]

It increases competition for jobs that _are_ there. When businesses compete to hire workers, applicants can negotiate higher wages. When applicants compete for jobs, employers can negotiate wages down.

[@cameronf3343]

This is why we should never have outlawed public gallows. This right here.

[@PhoenixAngel429]

This is evil. This is rather sick. People need job and companies do this.

[@damham5689]

So fraud.

[@tammiebroggins]

Just plain wrong!

[@larryarrington9395]

Fraud and lack of integrity. What a waste.

[@SusanM.]

They will go so far as to interview, say you have the job and ghost you ! They’re playing with peoples time and emotions!

[@kyenneyazmine23]

This economy is currently putting us through hell for companies to be playing with us like this

[@betenu1]

"Bait and Switch" in advertising is illegal. Doesn't matter what they are advertising. If they offer one thing and give you something else it's a crime.

[@fremontpathfinder8463]

This is why I am glad I am a unionized worker in a specific field who has to apply on a specific site where the jobs are vetted. Always go to the company's website

[@TastemyAtrocity]

This was actually the first actual news story I’ve heard in a while. Like not one of those stories where they say it’s hot outside and how to prevent heat stroke. But an actual relevant economy related issue that most people do not know about and what to do about it. 👍 great segment, CBS.

[@audraarndt1824]

Lol re heat stroke

[@aliannarodriguez1581]

Not everyone does know how to avoid heat stroke, and a lot of older people need to be reminded that it’s a risk for them in particular.

[@sjbubbly]

This segment did not present a viable solution. Those tips do nothing to prevent this.

[@seismojones]

That guy's shaky laptop/phone camera is so annoying.

[@audraarndt1824]

This is so stupid by companies - must stop.