I see a good number of what are obviously copied reqs and some that are just so ridiculous that they can't be real (lottery winning salary etc, remote work, C-l

I see a good number of what are obviously copied reqs and some that are just so ridiculous that they can't be real (lottery winning salary etc, remote work, C-level title, etc). 2 basic explanations here, maybe 3. If you wanted to start a recruiting operation you'd start with no job reqs and no customer firms most likely. You're going to need some of those. One way to get them would be to source a pool of resumes, talk to some candidates, sell them on your fake portfolio of reqs etc. NOW you got a pool of quality resumes and some candidates you can pump and you start making calls and sending emails to companies requesting they sign your payment agreement for access to all the awesome candidates in your pool. Alternatively, if you work a W2 job in HR/corporate recruiting, you have metrics and a schedule of work like anyone else. The metaphorical left arm of corporate and the equivalent right arm are not aware of each others existence and operation in this setting. You get job reqs in a system and you post them. Are they approved for hire? Are they Hopes and Dreams from department managers? Are they vetted internally to be real at all? Who knows. All the person positing knows is that they're getting paid to be at work, be a recruiter, and source people. They post these reqs and keep cashing paychecks. This is normal. Still yet, there are advertised govt. positions for state agencies. Recruiters often just take these reqs unaltered from the state entity and post them as if they're repping them. They're not most likely but they may have some broader agreement with a state organization for payment so they post them anyhow. This is free inventory for recruiters and any add they place, anyone they talk to, any resume they get .. thats a fish in the boat for free. Of course this happens. In my own pursuits I have a set of rules I rate reqs by. Being able to get someone on the phone is important. If you're real, you can hop on a call and you in fact want to. When I do talk to someone they shouldn't be asking me for SSN or other IDs either, because they want to "submit" you right away, thus binding the company they submit your info to for payment in the event of your hire. This is a game in itself because you are forever burned to come into this company again either on your own or via a higher quality recruiter. DO NOT EVER FALL FOR THIS. Another one is you'd better speak English as well as I do (I'm in the US) and if you don't you're an offshore resume mill and I want none of what you're doing. All sorts of dirty recruiting tricks once you really get into this.