According to us Bureau of Labor Statistics Statistics Published on Wednesday, the start of the job in July reached the lowest level in 10 months – 7.36 million to 7.18 million in June. Now, a new report of the carrier’s website Restart It suggests that even a whole group of these holes cannot be real.
Analysis has shown that 27.4 % of all US job lists on LinkedIn are probably past jobs that have no plans to hire. According to Report of Congress Research Service On the jobs of the past, this term is “described as an online job posting for positions that are not available, or that employers do not plan to fill it immediately.”
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Although past jobs are no new trends – there are “ghost jobs” documents on the Internet as far as 2003In recent years, this work has been a cause for stress for job seekers. And it’s not just LinkedIn. Earlier this year, the Hiring Platform Green House reported that it had 18 to 22 % jobs on its site.
At 27.4 %, the report found that the United States has the most past jobs in Canada (24.9 %), the UK (14.2 %), and Australia (10.9 %).
Why do companies post past jobs?
The Congress research service report on past jobs states that employers work for several reasons: as a sign of development to attract potential investors. To make current employees feel changing; They are open to external applications but are really in mind. Or just cast a wide net to find extraordinary abilities.
According to Society of Human Resources ManagementThe average time to fill the open roles was 41 days in 2024.
US cities have high percentage of past jobs
Resume Up Dot I analyzed the posting posting on LinkedIn over the past 30, 60, 90, 120, and 233 days – more than 30 days before the beginning of 2025, jobs were generally considered to be a “past job” based on renting timelines. Analysts divided the number of jobs posted more than 30 days before the total number of jobs posted this year.
Los Angeles took the list in the list with 30.5 %, which suggests that one in every three job postings are fake.
Philadelphia was number 2 with 30.1 %, and Indiana Paul is third with 27.8 %.
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Although New York had the highest number of Ghost jobs (23,000), the Big Apple came to number 4 with 26.7 %.
Finally, San Francisco finished the top 5 with 26.0 %.
US cities have the lowest percentage of past jobs
Seattle had the lowest percentage of past jobs, 16.6 %.
In the meantime, Boston had the second lowest percentage of past jobs with 18.7 %, and Dallas came with a third low at 20.1 %.
The report found that Chicago (21.6 %) was the lowest, and Atlanta was fifth with 21.9 %.
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