HR Besties: Boo! Ghost Job Epidemic
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🗓️ 10 September 2025
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Summary
Today's agenda:
- Really, Ohio?
- Cringe corporate speak: drill down
- Hot topic: all things ghost job epidemic: applying, interviewing and never hearing back
- Have we experienced this or seen it happening IRL?
- The graveyard of forgotten job postings
- Gathering intel on competitors and making an organization seem bigger
- Blue sky recommendations
- Higher volume of applications means visibility on every candidate is unlikely
- Do your own research
- Questions/Comments
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| 0:00.0 | So there is a state in the U.S., and that state is Ohio, where recently a bill was proposed |
| 0:10.8 | to impact those interviewing for jobs. |
| 0:16.4 | And what they proposed it would do is that especially those receiving unemployment benefits, |
| 0:21.9 | that there would be a portal that employers could go if they had a job interview with |
| 0:26.3 | someone and they could go and then report if someone didn't show up for the job interview |
| 0:29.9 | with them. |
| 0:30.9 | And then what? |
| 0:33.4 | Just tattel? |
| 0:35.4 | It's just a tattletail website? |
| 0:37.4 | Well, they have actually. So they had, it just a tattletale website? Well, they have actually. So they |
| 0:39.1 | have, it is a tattletail website because explicitly in the section right below this proposed bill |
| 0:43.4 | is existing language that's about complaints for like the unemployment department. So already |
| 0:47.7 | they have this division that if you think someone's getting unemployment benefits, you know, |
| 0:51.4 | they're $13 and 42 cents a week or whatever, you know, you tend to get. For unemployment benefits, you can make they're $13.42 a week or whatever, you know, |
| 0:54.7 | you tend to get. For unemployment benefits, you can make a complaint if you think someone's like, |
| 0:59.2 | you know, dodge in the system a little bit, like getting money on the side. It's not a W2, |
| 1:03.1 | so it doesn't flow through. So they already have this complaint mechanism. But so now this would |
| 1:06.6 | allow for a portal for employers to register those that don't show up for job interviews. And then |
| 1:13.0 | in the language all it says that this department, like basically the jobs department of Ohio, |
| 1:17.9 | the jobs agency, they shall investigate complaints made under this chapter. So basically, |
| 1:24.3 | what this is saying that, you know, bills tend to get adjusted. But what this would say as written is that if someone didn't show up for a job interview |
| 1:32.5 | and there was a complaint, then this department would have to go and investigate that and be like, |
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