Ghost jobs are online employment listings for jobs that either do not exist or are not vacant for which the company has no immediate intention of hiring. About 30% of companies use this tactic to collect resumes for future needs, create a false illusion of growth and to intimidate current employees into thinking their jobs are on the line if they don't improve their performance.
If you haven't heard back about a job you posted for, it's not you. It's them playing head games. Clifton has been doing it for years. Check it out for yourselves. You may find YOUR job listed.
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Posting ghost jobs works because it generates resumes to be used as props for the next Clifton Pep Talk.
You've heard it before; " You don't like your merit increase? Tough sh-t. I've got a pile of applications on my desk from qualified people ready to step into your role right now. And they're all more than happy to accept less money than you're getting."
I know for a fact that if you're here in Clifton you've heard that speech before in slightly different iterations.
If you let those slugs talk to you that way, and you still show up bright-eyed and bushy tailed on Monday morning, I suppose we deserve what we get. At least working cheap guarantees that you probably won't be laid off. You will be there forever and ever and ever until you die.
The company kept a post open for a VSM (value stream manager what ever the fu-k that is) perpetually.
That would explain why I reported to no less than 7 of them over a two-year period.
They all quit within months of getting hired.
We had a running pool to see how long each one would last.
So, yeah, the VSM posting was real.
Yes, it's crummy. L3Harris isn't alone in doing this. Other big defense contractors do the same, my old company did the same. There's no guarantee that any job any where exists just because they created a posting.
It could be to make the company look like it's growing, it could be that they're waiting for the perfect candidate. It's more likely the former, frustratingly, just to keep the stock price high. Executives want to exercise those options after all. They're playing musical chairs and want to stay in as long as they can to pad their overseas accounts.
@a7 "Playing with the emotions of employees and prospective new-hire candidates does not build trust."
But ... but ... but ... I thought they are the "Trusted Dispruptor".
@a1 This tactic may not be illegal, but it is unethical. Think about that. Playing with the emotions of employees and prospective new-hire candidates does not build trust.
Yes! Happened to me too but the job was posted just to give the illusion of equal opportunity for a job that was already promised to someone else like friends and family.
We call it the "Clifton two -step"
Another reason to avoid this company if you're looking for a career.
I learned of this tactic at Clifton years ago after posting for several jobs that were posted internally. I was finally told by a trusted HR person to stop wasting my time. She said the company had been doing it for years and it was NOT illegal. My operations manager at the time told me:
"You're doing fine. It's not personal. It's business."