Woman spotted by company after months of application process

It is a well-known fact that the job market is currently in disarray. How bad it is varies from person to person, but the general consensus is that it takes hundreds of applications to even get an initial interview. And if you’re lucky enough to get a second interview, don’t get your hopes up because you could be ghosted.

One woman thought she had finally reached the end of her long job search, but a promising company was ghosting her.

After months of searching, one woman thought she had found the perfect job.

TikTok content creator Morgan Von Feldt shared a video describing her difficult job search and how she thought she had finally found the perfect role.

“I’ve been applying for jobs for about eight months,” she says.

‘I did it the recruitment process but I have never seen it as horrible as it is now,” she explained. “It’s just mind-boggling.”

But there was “one specific experience” that Von Feldt really wanted to discuss with her 26,300 followers.

“So in early May of this year, I applied for a job that I was very, very, very excited about,” she said.

“They sent me an email and asked me to answer a few email questions, um, about the job and my experience and stuff,” she continued. “I did, and I returned the email, and probably a week later I heard from them again and they wanted to interview me. And so my first interview with them was on June 11.”

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Little did the woman know that her first contact with the company would be the start of a long process of back and forth communication that led nowhere.

“And a few days later they asked me to arrange a second interview, which would be on a project basis because it was a graphic design position,” she said. “And that was probably the following week.

Von Feldt said yes another project-based interview after the first. Everything seemed to be going well, but then she went an extended period of time without hearing from the company. After about a month they finally got back in touch.

“They sent me an email and said they were no longer making any progress at all on the position I originally applied for and applied for,” she stated. “No one was hired for that position because it wouldn’t exist.”

However, the company was not done with Von Feldt yet. “They said they wanted to offer me a contract position, which for graphic design would be like a project-based type of thing,” she explained.

Von Feldt was disappointed that the role was not “more consistent” but was still willing to take it.

“I was offered this contract position,” she said. “Um, their HR person was on vacation that week or something, but I was supposed to get a contract for this position the following week.”

“That didn’t happen,” she stated. “That was August 16th. Today was October 24th and I don’t have a contract. In fact, I haven’t received a single message since August 16.”

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It appears the woman was tricked into applying for a “ghost job.”

Several commenters on her video pointed out that Von Feldt appeared to be dealing with a company that has installed a so-called ghost track.

CV Geoffrey Scott, senior content manager and recruitment manager of Genius, explained to CNBC what ghost tracks are.

“Ghost jobs are not actually a scam,” he said. “They come from real companies, but they are vacancies that do not actually exist. That company is not actually hiring for that role at this time. Maybe they are interested in hiring for that role in the future, or maybe they were recruiting for that, but due to budget cuts, those roles were closed or put on hold.”

Ghost orders are complicated because they are not technically fraudulent.

A company can’t really get into trouble by posting it. But they’re still doing a great disservice to applicants who believe these are roles they actually have a shot at.

These false listings also inflate the job market, making it seem better than it is, and in Von Feldt’s case, she wasted months of time on an interview process that could have been spent contacting a company that actually wanted to hire her. .

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Mary-Faith Martinez is a writer with a bachelor’s degree in English and journalism, covering news, psychology, lifestyle and human interest topics.