Ghost Jobs

During the Covid-19 lockdown, I listened to old Art Bell content to entertain myself.
The current job market shares at least one important characteristic with Art Bell content:
Much of the content of both is fiction.
With respect to the job market, many advertisements fall into one of the 2 categories below:

Ghost jobs and scam jobs are similar in that neither will lead to actual legitimate employment.
This web page will focus ghost jobs.
My definition of ghost jobs is: advertisements from actual organizations who do employ people, but who will not be employing anyone from the resumes collected from a given advertisement.
In addtion, there may be third-party recruiters gathering resumes who may not know that a position is a ghost job.

Ghost jobs are far more frightening than any of the paranormal themes discussed by Art Bell.
You may have been with a friend or relative who observed a ghost job ad and he or she thought that the advertiser was sincerely searching for employees.

In the cases above, the advertisement will usually be short, and direct listeners or readers to a post office box.

Ghost Jobs Versus Ghosting

Ghosting means that you had a faith expectation to receive feedback in some situation, but you did not.
If a man messages a woman on a dating website and she does not message him back, that is not ghosting.
The man had no basis for expecting a reply.
With a ghost job, ideally you will not be invited to an interview.
A properly prepared applicant shoud assume that most jobs are ghost jobs until proven otherwise.
Unfortunately, with some ghost jobs there may be one or more interviews.
If you go on one or more interviews, you are told that you will receive an answer by such and such date, but on such and such date there is no communication, then you have been ghosted.