Recruiters say that ghost jobs — listings companies aren’t actually recruiting for — have become more common as the economy and labor market shifts.

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    one in five managers said they don’t plan to fill their current open job positions until 2023

    It’s worth noting that this article is a year old.

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      They’ve been doing it way longer than that. Other common reasons for this nonsense are gaming the H1-B system and maliciously complying with corporate policy that requires them to advertise externally for positions even when they want to promote an internal candidate.

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    Sometimes I think academics and journalists are mostly paid to make up new names for things and then describe them 50 times.

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    just to make job seeking people grow more desperate, so corporates could act as if they have more leverage (albeit fake) over the working class

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      the entire thing is a joke. neither the USD or Yuan are backed by anything but lies and “believe me gang”