> applying to 60 jobs and only hearing back from two
Really makes you wonder what “service” these job platforms are providing if a significant amount of their jobs are fake.
But they are usually open to hiring you. That's not a ghost job.
(Or better, it only becomes a ghost job from a handful of weeks prior to a couple of weeks after a layoff.)
I wonder what the other side looks like. Do people using Indeed and other services to find employees get real applicants? Or is it mostly auto-generated garbage?
I'm imagining a world where nobody human actually uses these sites, it's all bots applying to scraped and auto-posted jobs.
It looks like recruiters filter the mass of fake applications, and only send real people to the companies. From those real people almost everybody is comically unprepared, and most attempts at filling a job fail.