It’s really hard to find a job right now, and the prevalence of “ghost jobs” is not helping.
According to an internal review of data by hiring platform Greenhouse, 18% to 22% of job posts are ghost listings, or roles that companies aren’t actually trying to fill.
Greenhouse has more than 7,500 clients, including Major League Baseball and HubSpot, and found that nearly 70% of the companies using its platform had posted at least one ghost job in the second quarter of 2024.
Construction, the arts, food, and legal were the industries with the most ghost jobs, according to the internal data.
For about 15% of Greenhouse’s clients, posting ghost jobs was
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