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Ask HN: Recruiters, why do you repost jobs with 1000 applications a month later?

28 points charliebwrites | 1 comments | 18 Nov 24 22:56 UTC | HN request time: 1.304s | source

The majority of jobs on LinkedIn right now seem to be reposts of jobs from a month or two ago.

You can see from the application data that each role that's been reposted already has hundreds of applicants, which implies that it did last month as well.

Why would you repost a role vs just going through the 1000 applications you received last time?

What is the reasoning there?

1. phendrenad2 ◴[19 Nov 24 02:48 UTC] No.42179650[source]▶
I think these are ghost jobs based on institutional optimism. The toxic positivity culture in modern corporations ensures that companies always want to be hiring, but the purse-string-holders and bean-counters block the hire when it comes to actually signing on the dotted line.

This is why I don't look for jobs on LinkedIn, it's the garbage heap of false optimism.