Let's talk about: LinkedIn ghost jobs
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xxvxvx about 3 hours ago 5 comments
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LinkedIn has an obvious problem with ghost job postings.
A good example: received an email of matched jobs. Opened it and followed one specific link only to see they were no longer accepting applications:
https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/4439726696/
The job was reposted 7 hours prior and only received 36 applications total.
I always assumed that ‘not accepting more applications’ meant a specific threshold was met. But 36 apps in 7 hours? No.
Thoughts on what’s going on here?
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They're probably rapidly opening + closing new jobs to increase visibility, as matching models on job boards tend to prioritize new posts.
I have a candidate that I want to hire (say a recommendation, a referral, or someone I just want to give a job to) my internal processes may mandate that the job needs to be “advertised”.
So it gets advertised - and what do you know - the only applicant that fits the bill is this one person…
your company raised a bunch of money during the ZIRP era, your company needs to hire a large amount of H1Bs, you're a founder of 3-5 person startup that's been default dead - but your ego won't allow you to shut down the company or make it a 'lifestyle' company that's not attractive to VCs + many other factors
that's how you end up with endless jobs on LinkedIn.
Indeed has better signals.