You customized your resume. Next, you wrote a passionate cover letter. Finally, you hit “submit” on fifty different applications this month. And what do you hear back? Silence. Maybe a generic rejection email arrives three months later, but mostly, you face a void. You start to spiral. “Is it me? Am I unqualified? Is my age showing?”
I am here to tell you to stop beating yourself up. The game is rigged. A new trend has taken over the corporate world, and it is called the “Ghost Job.” Recent data suggests that up to 40% of the job listings you see on major platforms are not real. They are phantoms designed to trick you, the investors, and the current employees.
