A ghost job is a listing that was never going to hire you — already filled, quietly frozen, or posted only to collect resumes. This page explains the signals Reunitor's detector uses and shows illustrative sector shares based on heuristic scoring — not a census or a monthly data product.
Over time, the Index will also aggregate anonymous “Report ghost” signals from signed-in users inside Jobs. Until that corpus is large enough, we do not invent live percentages — the figures below stay illustrative heuristics.
On Naukri, watch for the same role code reposted every few weeks with identical JD text and no salary band — common in services “bench planning.” On LinkedIn Easy Apply, evergreen “Hiring!” posts from pages that never name a hiring manager or team are often résumé magnets. Neither signal alone proves a ghost; stacked with age and vagueness, they earn a flag inside Reunitor Matches so you can skip or verify before you apply.
Signed-in users can flag suspicious matches from Jobs; those anonymous signals will feed a future Index update once the corpus is large enough. Until then, email support@reunitor.com with the listing URL — we use reports to tune heuristics, not to publish unverified company scorecards.
No single signal condemns a listing. The detector weighs them together and assigns a risk level — and inside the product, every flag shows its reasoning so you can overrule it.
The same role re-listed again and again without a hire is a pipeline, not a vacancy.
Serious openings in the Indian market close in weeks. A listing gathering dust usually already has.
Salary transparency correlates strongly with real intent to hire at a known budget.
No team, no stack, no scope — descriptions written to collect resumes, not to fill a seat.
Companies that list the same evergreen role year-round are building a database, not a team.
Real roles belong to someone. Ghost roles belong to a folder.
The Index is the monthly public summary. Inside Reunitor, the same detector runs on every role we match you to — high-risk listings are flagged and set aside before you waste an application on them.
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