A few months ago, I applied for a Social Media Manager position with a company looking for remote workers. I received a message from them a few weeks later saying they were looking for other candidates at this time. No big deal, I thought, as we're in a job market where that's pretty common. And it's better than being ghosted.
But when I checked the job listing again, I noticed 3300 applicants had applied. Thirty three hundred. The job had been open for 3 months and gained thousands of applicants, all of whom were likely wasting their time.
I went to their site and noticed they weren't even located in the states, but located in Jordan, and this job was listed on their site as well but as a hybrid role. I reported the job listing on Linkedin, on the account that the listing says United States, but they're false advertising the role and location of role. Hours later the listing was removed. Score.
I believe they're doing this to get more page likes and visibility online, since LinkedIn prompts you to like and follow a page once you apply for their job.
Anyway they have continued to repeatedly upload this job post multiple times over the last month, and I report it as soon as I see it. Watching it get removed every day makes me chuckle. Honestly it brings me pure joy. I hope they're having internal meetings on it and are annoyed/don't know what to do. Fuck it, they deserve it for misleading applicants and likely are pushing a fake job for personal gain.
Good luck to everyone out there. Now more than ever, the job applying process is horrible and these companies are using recruiting tools for all the wrong reasons. I hope this made you smile.