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BBT #15 Snippet | Ghost Jobs Are Stealing Your Time
You spent three hours tailoring your resume. You wrote a cover letter. You tracked the application. And then nothing — not a rejection, not an acknowledgment, just silence. Because the job was never real. Ghost jobs — postings companies leave up for roles they have no intention of filling anytime soon — have become one of the most quietly damaging features of the modern job market. Estimates suggest 20 to 40 percent of all open listings at any given time are not actively being filled. Sixty-eight percent of hiring managers have admitted to posting jobs they weren't actively trying to fill…
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