Ghost Jobs Are Wasting Your Time — I Built a Chrome Extension to Detect Them
The article discusses the prevalence of ghost jobs, which are job listings that are not actively hiring. A new Chrome extension called GhostJob has been developed to help users identify these listings by analyzing specific signals. The extension uses a scoring model based on posting age, description vagueness, and duplicate postings to determine the likelihood of a job being a ghost job.
- ▪Ghost jobs make up an estimated 20% to 40% of job listings on platforms like LinkedIn and Indeed.
- ▪The GhostJob extension analyzes job postings based on three main signals: posting age, description vagueness, and duplicate postings.
- ▪The scoring model categorizes jobs into three tiers: Likely Real, Caution, and Likely Ghost.
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try { if(localStorage) { let currentUser = localStorage.getItem('current_user'); if (currentUser) { currentUser = JSON.parse(currentUser); if (currentUser.id === 3680827) { document.getElementById('article-show-container').classList.add('current-user-is-article-author'); } } } } catch (e) { console.error(e); } SHOTA Posted on May 19 Ghost Jobs Are Wasting Your Time — I Built a Chrome Extension to Detect Them #chromeextension #javascript #career #buildinpublic A ghost job is a job listing that exists but isn't actively hiring. The company posted it months ago, probably isn't reviewing applications, and might not even have a live opening. Estimates put ghost job listings at anywhere from 20% to 40% of what you see on LinkedIn and Indeed on any given day.
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