I am curious about job posting for the same company repeated for months

[Digit]

On Monster, CareerBuilder and others, I have noticed the same companies offering the SAME jobs for months on end. I have put in for these jobs and never contacted.

Since these same jobs never appear in my Sunday Classifieds, I wonder if they are bogus to make it appear there ARE jobs out there.

These jobs are from companies and NOT from employment agencies.

Oh, and one I now realize is trying to recruit people to SELL insurance, and he will rent you desk space to do so. His ad is for a Customer Service Rep and Insurance Sales. He has no intention of hiring any "employees", he is hiring independent contractors who pay him rental space to work on commission only. Talk about bait and switch. I interviewed for a CSR with him and traveled 20+ miles each way to do so. He kept pitching the sales side. This was six months ago and his ad is STILL running.

Other jobs I see reappearing week after week, and month after month are major firms. I have a difficult time believing that it takes so long to find someone who is adept at customer service/administrative functions for six months ongoing when they are offering benefits.

GET REAL

[Lavender Brown]

1. I noticed that too

I did apply for one job that according to CareerBuilder had been posted that day, when it was really several months old and had been been filled for a while. (This is what I was told when I made a follow-up call on my resume.) I think the employers have to update the listing status with the job site, otherwise it keeps putting it back up as a new listing when it isn't.

[liberalhistorian]

4. That's the case with most

job sites, the employers themselves are responsible for updating their listings. And ignore ones from those damned employment agencies-you'll never, ever get anything from them, no matter what your credentials are.

[Nikia]

2. I've wondered about this too

See my thread about reapplying to jobs http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=362x193.
There have been a few positions on state job boards though in which I believe there really was a job because I was contacted and interviewed. In some of these circumstances, they seem to have relatively high turn over. In one of these cases, it makes me wonder why they don't want to hire me when I really want to work there (although maybe there is a reason that I don't, 10 positions and 3-4 openings every year, hmmm...). Other comapnies seem to be ridiculously picky. In one case, I was contacted two months after applying to a posted position for which I met every single requirement. I went for the interview. Even before the interview started, the interviewer told me that myself and another qualified candidate would be interviewed that week but they were looking for more candidates. After I interviewed, the position was posted again. I contacted them a month later and they said that I was still in the running but they were still considering other candidates. A few weeks later, I received a rejection notice.
As for other jobs, they may or may not have jobs availible at the moment. I think some large firms build an applicant pool for positions they might need in the future. You might not be contacted because you are actually competing against college recruited candidates and networked candidates too, not just the ones who responded to the website as these positions open up.

[2Design]

3. consider these bogus jobs - posted and posted even after you

there are some in the paper that post regularly - I have decided they must be bad companies to work for and have high turn over - the ones who post after you interview are the worse - they are fishing for the perfect fit - and you are not it -

so count your blessings and move on - they are not a very good place to work - they have no manners or respect for others

if you see a notice on a bulletin board - do everyone a favor and pull it - they are not ethical or respectful of others if they don't contact you or say it is filled - just pull their notice -

when people say there are plenty of jobs - they see these ads and think there are - but there are not - they are bogus

or you have the sales jobs or others where they say if someone was willing to work hard - it is a commission or other job where you could put in 50 60 hours and get nothing -

some places flood the boards and it makes it hard to find anything - health care floods the board - but are they paying a living wage - no - that is why there is large turn over and shortage

there are way too many companies offereing 'competitive wages' that are 6 and 7 dollars an hour without benefits - all bogus jobs

[bliss_eternal]

6. Agreed--

--more often than not, a company that runs frequent ads for the same positions suffer from one of the following issues (what I've noticed in classified employment ads):

1. High turn-over. This can be attributed to a poor working environment, lack of commitment to training staff and/or new employees, or a psycho in the position that supervises the vacant position.

2. The position is actually being listed by an employment/temp agency as opposed to the actual company, stated in the ad. In this case, they make money based on constantly providing recruits for jobs. They are not generally all that interested in helping you seek work that is a good fit for you. Their job is to find placements for the corporations and there is sometimes a tendency for them to be dishonest with potential employees. They may say they are still seeking applicants for a particular position, but in reality that job no longer exists. They want to get you in their office to increase their pool of applicants, which may or may not be advantageous to you.

3. Companies that have frequent openings, they maintain ads--so that they may maintain a constant pool of applicants to choose from. This is usually not a positive thing--as they will call you weeks or even months after you expressed interest and/or applied for the job. When they call it may be for a different (less desirable, difficult to staff) location.

[liberalhistorian]

5. Consider yourself lucky; you

do NOT want to work for a company that is so picky, or that has continually high turnover. Trust me on that. It's worse than having no job.

[DaveJ]

7. I don't trust the big name job sites at all...

I know many legitimate employers use them, but they appear to be inundated with so many "spam" job ads as to be almost useless. I think Monster.com claims that posting your resume there gives you "twice" the chance of finding a job? Well my wife and I both posted our resumes there, and we both got jobs, but neither through a Monster ad or an ad from any other big name site we used. So I guess that makes us exceptions to Monster's claims. (I really despise false advertising) The way we got our jobs -- my wife noticed a store opening and applied there, and I used an online job finding site at a local community college. Not high level jobs of course but they are very stable.