LinkedIn, the Bay Area’s maligned job search giant, purged about 900 misleading job postings from its site last month following a damning investigation by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the outlet reported.
According to the Nov. 12 article, many of these jobs, which were listed as remote and required no experience, were actually multilevel marketing schemes asking participants to funnel money into online programs that asked for hundreds of dollars upfront. Some of the companies named in the CBC investigation include Evolution Travel, Destination Knot, Aisle and Abroad, Professional Travel Hub, and Wanderwell Collective.
In an era of mass layoffs, these fake and misleading postings — also known as ghost jobs — are wreaking psychological havoc on unemployed people seeking out legitimate work. After conducting a survey among employers, career experts were also surprised to discover just how many companies engaged in this deceptive practice…