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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
World
Graig Graziosi

The rise of ‘ghost jobs’: One in five job posts aren’t real, new report shows

The internet is full of lies, and online job boards are no exception.

Trying to find a new job has never been as easy with a vast arry of online postings. But online job boards are making the process even more painful by mixing fake job listings in with the real ones. Greenhouse, a hiring platform akin to LinkedIn, analyzed its clients job postings and hiring practices over the last year, and found that as much as one in five jobs listed are actually fake.

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