> But the most common type of ghost job is talent hoarding. > “You keep postings out there. You collect a large pool of resumes. You may, in fact, make contact

> But the most common type of ghost job is talent hoarding. > “You keep postings out there. You collect a large pool of resumes. You may, in fact, make contact with candidates and interview them, just so you have a large pool of talent,” said Kaplan. “But you don’t plan on actually filling the job anytime soon or hiring.” [...] > “It gives you a pool that you can very quickly ramp back up,” said Kaplan. In my opinion this talent hoarding does not make any sense: if you reject a (talented) candidate, he will in all likelihood look for a job somewhere else. Thus when the economy grows again, the respective candidate will likely not available anymore for hiring, because he surely has a job elsewhere (except you are willing to pay an insane salary that is much larger than the candidate's current salary).