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Proposal to Ban Ghost Jobs

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446 points Teever | 1 comments | 26 Aug 25 16:27 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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LorenPechtel ◴[26 Aug 25 17:21 UTC] No.45029568[source]▶
Only 17%??

Last time I was job hunting I found that 80%+ of postings were either dupes or bogus. Very vague description of the job? I'm going to keep seeing it for a long time, clearly they are not actually filling the role. Very specific, odd set of requirements, they're going through the motions but they've already picked the person and the ad is designed to match only that person.

I think they're going about this backwards. Leave the ad up, but they are required to amend it with external hire/internal hire/H-1B when the position is filled. Let people see what has happened in the past. And all jobs must be associated with some entity and indicate how long that entity has existed.

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nickff ◴[26 Aug 25 17:27 UTC] No.45029638[source]▶
Those 'one specific person' ads are usually there to comply with an internal requirement or external regulation/law, so they wouldn't be able to say that it was filled, because that would be an admission that the whole process was a sham.
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dmurray ◴[26 Aug 25 17:29 UTC] No.45029663[source]▶
Why? They'd "find" the one specific person, and then report the job was filled by that person, as an internal hire if that was the case.
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nateglims ◴[26 Aug 25 17:33 UTC] No.45029725[source]▶
I suspect they mean it's for sponsoring a green card for an existing employee.
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1. mschuster91 ◴[26 Aug 25 17:43 UTC] No.45029845{3}[source]▶
At large companies, this kind of stuff is the norm even for internal transfers. They got all sorts of whack policies in place, department leads try to work around the red tape and make very very VERY specific job postings that only the actually desired candidate can fill.