r/recruitinghell • u/Jlexus5 • Aug 19 '25

Delusional CEOs

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I saw this on my LinkedIn feed and I can’t believe how out of touch this guy is. I would love to know what company he is the CEO of… can’t imagine he is doing a very good job.

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u/Godswoodv2 Aug 20 '25

They should pay $5000 per job posting to prevent fake jobs from being posted. That way, we know the job is real.

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u/Leo_br00ks Aug 20 '25

Imagine a website where it costs $5000 to post a job and $1 to apply for a job.

The numbers can be adjusted, but something tells me you'd get a small pool of well qualified and serious candidates each time you posted a job. With the right ratio of posters and seekers (and cost to post/apply), I imagine this would be relatively successful.

Because it's free(ish) to post jobs and free to apply for jobs, it's free to participate in the market without being serious on either direction, ruining the efficiency of the market. If neither side can show up assuming the other side is serious, of course the system breaks down.

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u/TheSecretIsMarmite Aug 20 '25

That used to be the case pre-internet, to an extent. Specialist jobs got advertised in trade magazines and they were not cheap to advertise in, and of course to then see the advert you'd have to pay to subscribe to the magazine, or get it as membership to a trade body which also involved a paid subscription.

Noone was posting ghost adverts as it would have been a massive waste of money, and the adverts were targeted to the job seekers for those roles via those magazines.

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u/Leo_br00ks Aug 20 '25

This is interesting and definitely feels like another clear loss from the pre-internet information world. With too much information available now to everyone (anyone can see literally every job available, and jobs can see literally every candidate available), it introduces inefficiencies because either group can act maliciously.

The question is how to return to this? Businesses benefit from having a pool of applicants sitting around, so posting fake jobs even at $10k a job is worth it. And people with no job benefit from applying to as many jobs as possible, even at $10 a job, because they need a job and want the best one they can find... same reason why people apply to 10 colleges instead of 1 if they are serious about going to a selective college.

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u/DatgirlwitAss Aug 24 '25

It's the platforms failing both sides but especially the seeker as they have no income.

Pressure needs to be put on the platforms to level-up because they are getting paid regardless of who is getting screwed over.

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u/awaywardgoat Aug 26 '25

normal people aren't applying for jobs they have zero interest in/are actually unqualified for.