• MooseLad@lemmy.world
    381·
    1 year ago

    I’m a graphic designer and I applied to over 100 jobs before a recruiter got back to me and said she loved my portfolio and sent it up the chain.

      • MooseLad@lemmy.world
        291·
        1 year ago

        That was earlier today so I haven’t heard anything yet.

        I also read an article recently that companies are posting “ghost jobs” where they don’t plan to hire anyone at all.

        • KevonLooney@lemm.ee
          271·
          1 year ago

          Yes, the “ghost jobs” are for two reasons:

          • Collect resumes in case finance approves more funding. In that case, they will be read.
          • Appear to be growing to stockholders and analysts. If you say you are growing and have no job openings, they will not believe you.
          • MooseLad@lemmy.world
            131·
            1 year ago

            Yeah I’ve experienced the first one. I accepted a position somewhere else long before, but by the time one of the companies had gotten back to me, it had been 7 months since I applied.

        • Andonno@lemmy.world
          161·
          1 year ago

          I also read an article recently that companies are posting “ghost jobs” where they don’t plan to hire anyone at all.

          Also the whole, “post a job with impossible requirements, back fill with cheap imported workers/my mate when the position is inevitably unfilled”.