Has anyone ever noticed a decrease in the number of applicants on a LinkedIn job posting after a role closes? For example if it showed 100+ applicants at the time the job posting closed but then later that number has decreased to under 100? I've never noticed this before, is it safe to assume this is just the hiring manager whittling down the number of applicants, or is it because people withdraw their applications?

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I believe part of it is LinkedIn counts clicks on "apply". People may click on it to go to the company page but not actually submit an application at all.

So when the employer adjusts, I assume they take these folks out of that number.

I agree with C1 there's also a high number of folks not qualified. My last job said there were 300 applicants but I was approached by a recruiter, so either there were a lot of folks not qualified, or a ton of people didn't really apply. Likely a bit of both, I'd guess.

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3 things are happening:

Linkedin numbers are lies.
Most applicants are unqualified.
There are many stale job postings on LinkedIn.

*Job posts that stay up for months are signals that the company's hiring practices are terrible--examine promoted posts.

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