Are companies posting jobs they do not intend to fill? I keep seeing roles stay open for 3 to 6 months with constant reposting. Interviews move slowly or pause entirely. Is this real hiring or optics?

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Do your research because I was offered a position years ago at Hughes and so I went there and the lady told me that they were not hiring and it was a scam. If they provide a phone number with his name google it on the website

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Are these the positions that are hired by contract? I don’t see this when it’s a legit company’s positing

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That’s a good question! Actually it doesn’t make any sense but be aware of scammers out there who still your identity and personal information. I recently found out that there were 80 crooks who had my personal information.

No. I've been in stem for 25 years, its always been like this. Things are just hard. It takes 4 months to find and get work putting in 40 hours at it. And its been that way since 2001.

Companies will definitely post jobs they have no intention of filling, they're known as ghost jobs. There have been some good articles about that, you can find them by searching at Google News. Often it's a PR strategy, companies think it looks better to appear that they're always hiring, even if the opposite is true.

I believe many roles are placeholders for optics or pipeline building. Real hiring moves decisively. Long reposting without progression usually signals internal uncertainty, not candidate shortage.

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