Unemployment is low, but companies are slow to hire: How job seekers faced a Great Frustration in 2025
Job seekers in 2025 face stalled hiring, AI résumé filtering, ghost jobs, and fierce competition, producing prolonged unemployment and severe financial strain.
Ghost jobs, robot gatekeepers and AI interviewers: let me tell you about the bleak new age of job hunting | Eleanor Margolis
Many companies post unclear or nonexistent job adverts, use AI screening, and exploit applicants, causing wasted time, anxiety, and unemployment distress.
AI resume screening, recruiter chatbots, and 'ghost jobs' are causing havoc for struggling entry-level workers
AI threatens many entry-level white-collar roles, increasing application barriers and resume filtering, while some employers still plan to maintain or grow entry-level hiring.
Recruiters dish on 'ghost jobs': Why companies post them, and how to outsmart them
Many job listings are ghost jobs—fake or not genuinely open—causing applicants to waste time while employers build talent pools and attract candidates.
This Recruiter Just Broke Down Why Today's Job Market Is "The Strangest"
Widespread mismatch between employer expectations and candidate qualifications, plus ghost job postings and scams, has made the job market unusually difficult.
Man Applies for Job, Sits for Interview, Then Realizes They're Trying to Peddle "Mock Interviews With an AI Interviewer"
Some startups use AI-driven interview bots and fake job listings to attract users, resulting in impersonal, misleading experiences that waste applicants' time.