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Around one in five job postings is never filled. Paste a link or the description and we will check it against the employer's own careers board where we can, show you every signal that fired with the words that triggered it, and tell you plainly what we could not check.
What the research says
18 to 22%
of job postings per quarter are never filled
Greenhouse, 2025
21%
may be ghost postings, worst at employers of 1,001 to 5,000 people
Hunter Ng, arXiv, 2024
4 in 10
postings now lead to a hire, down from 8 in 10 in 2019
Columbia Law Review Forum, 2025
How the check works
The strongest thing we can do is ask the software the employer actually uses. Six of the major systems publish a complete public list of open roles, so if a posting is not on that list, the version you are reading has outlived its source. That is a fact. Everything below it is inference, and we weight it accordingly.
Both are the signals job boards obscure most, and both are hard for an employer to fake. We date a posting from when we first recorded it, never from a date a board reports, because a re-post resets that date and nobody tells you. When a site shows a ceiling like "30+ days ago", we treat it as a floor on the age rather than a value.
Italy, Slovakia, Lithuania and Malta transposed the EU Pay Transparency Directive on time in June 2026, and Ontario has required a pay range since January 2026. In those places a missing salary is a compliance failure. In Germany, France, Spain and the Netherlands it is still ordinary practice, so it says very little. Treating the two the same is the most common mistake in ghost-job advice.
Every result lists the checks that did not run and how to do each one by hand in under a minute. A tool that only reports what it found lets you mistake a thin answer for a clean one, and on a question this consequential that is the failure that costs you a week.
What this will not do
The score counts patterns that unfilled postings tend to share. Real postings share some of them, and there are legitimate reasons: a public body may be required to advertise, and a senior search genuinely can run for months.
Those sites block server-side reading and we do not work around it. Paste the description instead, or use the browser extension, which reads the page from inside your own session.
When a board paginates and we could not finish reading it, absence proves nothing, so we say so instead of scoring it. A refusal you can see beats a number you cannot trust.
Track applications and get told when one dies
Save a job and we re-check the posting for you. If it is taken down or quietly re-listed, you find out.
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