What percentage of advertised jobs exist?

[MrMark]

Any ideas?

[AtW]

You'll need to be more specific: exist in this Universe or in others? And how do you define "existance" anyway?

[xoggoth]

27.458914 %

Roughly.

[TimberWolf]

0%?

[Clippy]

% of advertised jobs that exist = pi

HTH

[BolshieBastard]

Many of the jobs do exist, at some point. For example, I've been contacted by agents regarding a specific roles before its been advertised on jobswerve (who hasnt?).

4 or 5 days later, the job is on jobswerve by the same agent who has contacted me. Is that job real or not?

The real question is, is the job opportunity still there when the role appears on js?

I'd say 50% of roles advertised on jobswerve, agents have submitted their 3 candidates to the client. Of the other 50%, I'd say 15 - 20% are other agents who arent on the PSL for those roles doing a fishing exercise.

[HairyArsedBloke]

They all have the potentiality to exist, but the probability that any one of them will go from potentially or really existing varies. For the vast majority of cases that probability is vanishingly small.

[RichardCranium]

They exist and they don't exist, until you apply. Then the causality wave collapses and you f*** it up for everyone.

HTH

[NickFitz]

It's a quantum effect: for as long as you don't submit your CV, the advertised gig exists in a superposition of states, both existing and not existing. At the moment the CV is submitted, it collapses into one specific state. So what you're really looking for is the probability of any given advertised gig collapsing into a state of existence.

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Edit: Ah, RC had the same idea...

[threaded]

It is quite variable depending totally on the agency & agent.

Some agents and agencies only ever advertise fake jobs.

A small number of agents only ever advertise real jobs.

Some agents have real jobs but never advertise them themselves.