Most recent one I got was a phishing scam for Trump accounts for kids (the $1k you can get if your kid was born in a Trump year). This really is a shit timeline.
40% of companies/recruiters freely admit to posting fake job listings.
https://www.fiscalreport.com/40-of-companies-admit-to-posting-fake-job-openings/
Entire economy is a rapidly imploding scam.
I worked for a company where I sometimes tried to refer people to positions posted on our website, only to learn from HR that they weren’t real positions and they were posted to meet some legal requirements I wasn’t given details about.
That same company burned 12 internal employees’ time across 350+ applicants and a countless sea of interviews over a 6 month period. We arrived at consensus. Stated who we’d like to hire and were told the req had been closed the day prior. Was it ever real? We’ll never know. Did we waste well into the six figures of people’s time and energy? 100%.
Same company a few months after laid off entire departments, sunset numerous product lines with paying customers, and last I heard the current owners are just keeping it in hobble along maintenance mode and extracting profits before it crashes. Dumpster fire.
Best case scenario, HR is setting up fake jobs to make it look like an internal transfer or promotion was actually competetive.
Worst case scenario, they’re just doing it to pad the numbers of ‘how many new positions we’re looking to fill = we are growing rapidly!’ Stupid shsreholders might buy that.
Super duper worst case scenario, its all a data mining operation on the pool of potential employees… the company is so fucked it has to essentially contract itself out to market research firms.
Those are my 3 guesses.
Your particular situation makes #1 seem unlikely… thats waaay too much man hours devoted to interviews, when the company itself is bleeding out employees.
In fact your company’s situation is so fucking bad that I’d lean toward #3.
Which would mean the entire company is now essentially a fake/scam company that mostly exists as an ostensibly legit front for data harvesting, presuming it was at one point an actual company that actually did… something.
I would be entirely unsurprised if it turns out that, through a series of shell companies, LinkedIn is behind this, just cannibalizing its own real asset, its userbase, as they already know its curtains for them.
Shouldn’t this be ‘not the Onion’? It doesn’t have an.article but it is true
