My question would be how do you know the position was a ghost position? Some companies genuinely leave roles open on their hiring pages for a while until they find a good fit some times. How do you differentiate between companies that are being picky and companies that are being obviously bad faith to the job market? This feels like it would just turn into crowdsourcing negative resentment from rejected candidates regardless of how real the position being offered actually is.

Sour grapes.

I had a position open for more than 6 months. Nobody qualified was applying. But plenty of extremely unqualified people were. We eventually did find a qualified engineer to fill that position. But it was a struggle. Until that happened, that position fit all definitions of ghost positions people complain about.

Best way to know if job post is a ghost post is to monitor the board for a few weeks, months then see how many of the same posts repeat themselves. That's how I verified jobs posted on LinkedIn and Indeed. LinkedIn jobs are easy to tell, as they have a number of people applied attached to the post. Indeed.com ads tend repeat often, some day after day or week after week. I would say what is needed an application that looks at these boards, daily, and indexes the job posts, keeping track the frequency of these job posts.

Some job listings really are data harvesting scams. Most of the complaints I've seen about "ghost jobs" or "fake job listings" were from people who were rejected or ghosted. Being ghosted sucks, but it doesn't mean the job posting wasn't real.

This site looks like half-baked AI slop output with "perpetual posting" tags for common big companies. The evidence they cite is that these companies have open positions but are also doing layoffs, which is not an indicator of "ghost jobs".

EDIT: Oh, this account exists purely to spam this link over and over again. Flagged