This chapter examines the alarming rise of ghost jobs in the labor market—advertised positions that are rarely filled or may not exist at all. Through research and interviews, it reveals the frustrations faced by job seekers and the underlying reasons companies engage in this misleading practice.
If you’ve applied to a job and never heard back, you may have fallen prey to a ghost job — an online listing for a role that never actually existed.
Ghost jobs aren’t just leaving job seekers frustrated. They’re also muddying the waters of the labor market when it comes to assessing the strength of the economy.
On today’s Big Take podcast, Sarah Holder digs into the ghost job phenomenon with Molly Smith, an editor on Bloomberg’s US economy team.
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