No shit and water is wet too. I thought this is common knowledge recruiters did that since there was recruiting. Of course they will, why? Because one of the j

No shit and water is wet too. I thought this is common knowledge recruiters did that since there was recruiting. Of course they will, why? Because one of the jobs recruiters might do is cold calling, or otherwise contacting companies that are not working with them yet. The conversation usually goes something like this "what positions are you having trouble filling? Oh, really? I have 30 high quality candidates on file that are looking for that position today. I can send it to you in an hour if your company signs a contract with me/us." And they do, how? They'll invent jobs and advertise them. Usually they'll not even contact anyone that's applied. Then depending on level of integrity of a given recruiter they might just ring/contact the candidate when they really have a position to apply them to (that's fine in my book) or much worse they'll just "tweak the cv" and apply. They might justify it to themselves as "I'm not expecting these 20 people to get the job, I'm just padding the resume of my star 21st candidate I did talk to" etc. Sadly this practice impacts everyone especially candidates. Imagine you get "ghost" applied like this to a position and you really apply directly or through another honest recruiter. The company will not touch you at all, because they'd have to pay twice the recruitment fees. Or imagine instead of just deleting stuff that's irrelevant the other recruiter decided to "spruce up", your CV? Now it's look like you're lying to your prospective employer... I'm not here to demonise recruiters. A huge majority of these I worked with during my over 2 decades of work have been honest, but dishonesty exists in some industries to such extent many recruiters I worked with in the UK for example wanted me to sign on paper they are my chosen recruiter exclusively for this position (protecting themselves from another recruiter posting my CV without my knowledge and contesting the fees).