That position you just applied for might be a ghost job that'll never be filled

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Had this happen to me many years ago. Applied for a manager position at a company. It would have been a lateral move for me but closer to home. At the interview I discovered that there was no manager position open. It was for a manager trainee position making half of what I was currently making. I was angry at how they didn’t care a bit about the deception or wasting my time.

Its not the deception that's the problem, its the false advertising and fraud.

In the last two years (shortly after GPT) I've got a list of about 400 of these outfits. Indeed and LinkedIn don't remove them when reported. Many are the same entity with similar naming conventions.

Hint: Run your own web server with resources tied to a uniquely keyed access token per job application, have analytics on the site with various portfolio and other useful information.

You'll see the same companies, and IP blocks (even if they advertised under a false name) show up regularly.

If you can't detect them on the front-end because of bad actors, fingerprint them on the backend when they access the provided resource. (P.S. Ensure you are in a locality where its legal to do so, I am not a lawyer).

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