Hey Friend ,
Every month our consultants submit 400-500 applications on behalf of our candidates. 8-10 turn into real conversations. The rest? Silence. Auto-rejected. Ghosted. No reason. No feedback. Just.. gone.
So I started asking: why do companies post jobs they don't intend to fill?
Revature. SmoothStack. Mthree. FDM Group. According to legal filings and public reports, these companies operate staffing training models with extended contractual commitments. Job seekers report being locked into 2-year contracts with reported penalties of $30,000+ if they leave, minimum wage pay, and reported structures where the company retains significant portions of earnings. The DOL has filed lawsuits alleging violations of wage and labor standards. Yet they continue posting hundreds of job openings monthly.
Upwork. Toptal. Fiverr. DataAnnotation. These platforms appear to operate as talent marketplaces where the primary business model centers on database collection. Job seekers report submitting resumes and work samples, only to be ghosted within 48 hours. The value appears to be in building and monetizing the talent pool, not filling actual positions.
Then there are the shell companies. Job title. Salary range so random it makes no sense ($45K-$150K for junior? Sure.). Profile pictures that appear across multiple job postings on different platforms. They materialize on Indeed, LinkedIn, Glassdoor for exactly 3 weeks, collect 200-300 resumes, then the posting vanishes. Our team calls them "one-post ghosts."
But here's what really gets me.
Our consultants apply in bulk. It's strategy. They expect some ghosting. They've built systems to absorb it.
But there's a person somewhere right now applying to one job. Just one. They saw the posting, matched the requirements, thought "this could be it." Spent time on the application. Reread their cover letter. Hit send with hope. Real hope.
Then silence.
No feedback. No "not a fit." No "we went another direction." Just.. nothing. They check their inbox every day. Refresh their email. Tell their family "I applied for something good." Days pass. A week. Two weeks. Hope turns into doubt. Doubt turns into "maybe I'm not good enough."
They apply to another. Same silence. And another.
By the tenth application, that hope is gone. Replaced by quiet desperation. Mental peace eroded. Confidence shattered. They're not thinking "maybe next time," they're thinking "maybe never."
That's what ghost jobs do.
They don't just waste time. They damage the human beings on the other side of the screen who applied with genuine belief that the job was real.
Our candidates deserve better than this.
Our consultants deserve better than sifting through 400 fake postings to find 8 real ones.
And every single person applying with hope deserves to know if the job is real before they pour their heart into it.
So yes.. we do blacklist companies too.
Reply and tell me: where are you right now in your job search?
Just one line. I read every reply personally.
Talk soon,
Sachin Rajgire
Founder, Wynisco Inc.
sachin@wynisco.com
