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I feel line linkedin is also full of fake job listings. At least I’ve seen ones that are there since forever

• giantg2 3y ago
  Pretty much all of them have those "evergreen" listing by the bigger companies. I'm not sure how it's not fraud to advertise a job that isn't actually vacant at the time. I guess there's no incentive to stop it since it would make the jobs numbers for the economy look like worse.
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  • JohnFen 3y ago
    I think that it's not legally fraud (in the US) because an important component of fraud is that the lie is used to steal something of value from the victims. Advertising a job that doesn't exist doesn't do this unless you're charging an application fee or using the data collected from applicants for a purpose other than what was represented. The practice is lying, though, and I'll join in the chorus of voices saying that it's terrible behavior.
    • giantg2 3y ago
      False advertising is considered a type of fraud because you used false facts to extract, or try to extract, value from someone. If there was no job open, you just cost someone paper, ink, transportation, and time. It's a stetch, but in my book it fits.