Okay, it’s been a while. We had the holidays, and then I went on my annual Caribbean get-out-of-Michigan trip – but I’m back!

When I came back, I’m immediately hit with the “Ghost Jobs” “Fake Jobs’ thing all over the media, and you guys know I was going to lose my mind! So, KD and I jumped on a pod to discuss.

Enjoy!

BTW – Here’s some early returns on an informal survey I did on LinkedIn:

This actually aligns with the WSJ article. So, what do I have to say about this?

Nope. It’s still a fake concept. We’re just really bad at communicating with candidates, so it’s easy for candidates to believe when they don’t hear anything back, it must be fake!

Also, I did have one brave soul message me privately with a link to show me a fake job! It was a startup technology company that was going through layoffs, but they didn’t want the “street” to think they were doing poorly. But they are, and this friend of the blog said they were 100% not filling these jobs. So, for real, fake jobs do exist, but it’s rare.