The Job Market Is Fake. And If You’re a Business That Posts Ghost Jobs, You Have a Legal Problem.

You’ve been applying for months. Tailoring the resume. Writing the cover letter. Hitting submit. And hearing nothing. Not even a rejection.

You start thinking something is wrong with you.

There isn’t. Many of those jobs aren’t real.

This isn’t a fringe theory. It’s documented across multiple studies in 2025. A LiveCareer survey of 918 HR professionals foun…