A new analysis of postings pulled directly from applicant tracking system APIs found that 28% of jobs listed on employer career sites remain open for more than 90 days after publication. The data covers postings verified as live on employer sites, tracked at the board level every few hours rather than scraped or estimated. The report also tracks 'reposts' — listings that close and reappear within 30 days for the same role — but does not label any individual posting a 'ghost job'.
unlisted.careers
· 2026-09-23
Jay Jones, laid off from advertising in 2023, says he has helped get almost 60,000 fraudulent job postings removed from the internet, mostly on LinkedIn, and has flagged roughly 7,000 suspicious profiles. He found scammers using stolen photos, hijacked dormant verified accounts, and fake postings on real company pages, some powered by AI to personalize pitches and harvest fees or personal data like Social Security numbers.
techspot.com
· 2026-09-23
Google recently pulled the Pixel Tablet and its entire tablet section from its online store, and reports indicated a follow-up model had been scrapped. Yet multiple current Google Careers postings, including roles for Pixel Core USB and Pixel Display engineering, explicitly mention work spanning Pixel phones, foldables, and tablets, including references to 'upcoming' tablet hardware.
androidauthority.com
· 2026-09-22
A jobseeker was contacted on LinkedIn by someone posing as a recruiter and asked to complete an interview process that involved downloading a document. The file was actually malicious software, and within hours the attackers used it to drain £18,000 from his cryptocurrency accounts before disappearing.
bbc.co.uk
· 2026-09-03
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