27% of all job postings are fake — verified 2025

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ACME TECHNOLOGIES · LINKEDIN
Senior Software Engineer
84%
Ghost Probability
How it works

Six signals.
One honest score.

01 / POSTING AGE
Days Without Closing
Real jobs fill in 30–45 days on average. Postings open for 60+ days signal no active search is underway.
02 / LAYOFF CROSS-CHECK
Recent Headcount Cuts
We cross-reference Layoffs.fyi, WARN Act filings, and news. Companies hiring while firing are a major red flag.
03 / DUPLICATE DETECTION
Multi-Board Presence
Ghost jobs get re-posted endlessly across boards. The same listing on 5+ sites, unchanged, for months = ghost.
04 / SALARY TRANSPARENCY
Vague Compensation
Legitimate roles in CA, NY, CO, IL are legally required to list salary ranges. No range = likely not compliant or not real.
05 / HIRE VELOCITY
Company's Historical Rate
We track how many open roles a company converts to hires. A company with 400 open roles and 12 hires last quarter is suspicious.
06 / COMMUNITY REPORTS
User-Submitted Data
When verified GhostCheck users report "no response after 8 weeks" on a specific job ID, that signal propagates to everyone.
Under the hood

Your data, made
readable.

Every score is fully transparent. You see exactly which signals triggered the warning and how much each one contributed to the final score. No black box, no vibes — just data.

Our algorithm is calibrated against 40,000+ job postings where we tracked actual hiring outcomes. A Ghost Score above 70 means you have less than a 15% chance of ever receiving a response.

→ Browser extension auto-scores every listing as you browse

$ ghostcheck analyze --url
  "linkedin.com/jobs/view/38291..."

posting_age: 67 days ⚠ HIGH
salary_disclosed: false ⚠ FLAG
layoffs_6mo: 1,200 ⚠ HIGH
board_duplicates: 7 ⚠ FLAG
hire_velocity: 0.03 ↓ LOW
community_reports: 14 ⚠ HIGH

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GHOST_SCORE: 84 / 100
verdict: likely ghost job
response_probability: 8%
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"The job I spent 8 hours tailoring my application for was reposted 6 days later. Identical. That company has posted the same role 11 times this year."
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