💥 What The "F" Is A Ghost Job?

Hello there, haunted applicants.

Picture this: You're scrolling through job boards at 2 AM in your pajamas, clutching a cold cup of coffee and the last shreds of your dignity.

You spot the perfect job posting. The salary range looks promising (suspiciously so). The requirements match your skills like a glove.

You craft the perfect cover letter, light a candle to the ATS gods, and hit "submit" with the confidence of someone who definitely hasn't been burned 47 times before.

Plot twist: That job is deader than disco. Deader than the houseplant you promised you'd keep alive this time.

Welcome to the spooky world of ghost jobs, where 4 out of 10 companies are basically running a haunted house attraction, except instead of jump scares, you get the slow, crushing realization that you've been applying to jobs that exist only in the ethereal realm of corporate fantasy.

Ghost jobs are like that friend who keeps saying "we should totally hang out soon!" but never actually makes plans. They're job postings with all the commitment of a politician's campaign promise and about as much substance as a cotton candy breakfast.

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🧨 THE RANT

Now Hiring - Absolutely No One

Listen to this shit…

Companies are out here posting FAKE JOBS, not by accident, not because the Applicant Tracking System is possessed, but as part of some strategic séance to summon the ghost of gainful employment past…or maybe just to torment the living.

We spend hours tailoring resumes, crafting cover letters, pretending to care about their “fast-paced environment”- only to get ghosted by a job that never even existed?

They didn’t just ignore us.
They poltergeisted us.

We got Casper’d by capitalism.

And now we’re all sitting here, refreshing our inboxes like:

“Hello? Is anyone there?”
crackle… static…
“No one ever was.”

If they’re gonna post ghost jobs, they could at least make it fun.

Rattle some chains.
Slam a door.
Whisper “We went with an internal candidate” through the vents in a creepy little HR voice.

But no.

We didn’t apply to a real job, more like we walked into an abandoned office where the lights still flicker and a “Now Hiring” sign floats in blood-red Comic Sans font.

At this point?

We’d probably have better luck getting hired by a ghost.

At least a ghost would show up.
Knock over a lamp.
Moan dramatically.
Communicate.

And then - AND THEN - they have the nerve to complain about "talent shortages" and "nobody wants to work anymore."

📊 DATA THEY HOPE YOU IGNORE

We made small talk. We answered “Tell me about a time...”
We thought we were moving forward.
But all we did was document our own professional ghosting.

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💬 Real Talk

What you shared reeks of ghost job energy.

Sometimes companies post them to look like they’re growing, a little corporate peacocking for investors or competitors.

Sometimes it’s for compliance, to prove they’re “technically” hiring even when they already have someone internal lined up.

Sometimes it’s just laziness, they forgot to take it down.

But the worst reason?

That one’s in the You Can’t Make This Sht*t Up section, and once you see it, you won’t look at job boards the same way again.

Ghost jobs waste everyone's time, erode trust, and turn the hiring process into a bad escape room no one asked to be in.

The good news?

Once you know the signs, you can spot them before they eat up your energy, hope, or perfectly customized cover letter.

That’s why we built this week’s Power Move, a dead-simple framework for spotting ghost jobs before you ever hit apply.

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