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Ghost Jobs: the economy built on positions that don't exist

Ghost Jobs: the economy built on positions that don't exist

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Every month, 2.2 million job postings in the United States result in zero hires. Four in ten companies admit their listings are fake. Seven in ten call it morally acceptable. 85 percent still bring candidates in for interviews.

These are not figures from a conspiracy blog. They come from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, from surveys of 650 hiring managers published by ResumeBuilder, and from Revelio Labs analytics. The ghost job economy is a documented, quantified phenomenon, and apparently a perfectly tolerated one.