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Ghost jobs made every listing a guess.
We made it provable.

A real employer discloses the facts that actually matter: when a posting went live, whether AI is filtering or interviewing you, whether a recruiter's involved, and — once verified — the one real place to apply. Two very different problems, one honest registry.

I'm a candidate

Know before you spend the evening.

A one-time, free email verification is all it takes to search and comment. See every fact an employer disclosed — and if they've added a destination link (a paid option on their end), your verification is what lets you reach it. Nothing scored, nothing hidden.

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I'm an employer

Prove your posting is real. Cut the noise.

Register in minutes alongside your existing workflow. Toggle what you disclose any time. Upgrade only when you want more.

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Why this exists right now

Trust in job postings has broken down on both sides of the desk.

Every number below is a real, published survey finding, cited at the bottom of this page — nothing invented.

60%1
of job seekers say they've run into a ghost job
1 in 52
postings on a major hiring platform aren't real openings
95%3
of job seekers have hit a suspicious job listing or offer
56%4
of employers call "too many unqualified applicants" their top hiring problem — 4 years running
Not another way to apply faster

Mass-applying and mass-filtering got us here. We're not adding a faster gun to that arms race.

A real application takes real time — on average 31 minutes, and a full job search adds up to roughly 51 hours of it5. Spray-and-pray spends that time on postings that were never real; AI-filtering spends it screening out people a person never saw. FightGhostJobs bets on the alternative: candidates who apply with intention to postings that are verified, and employers who'd rather be found by the right five people than buried under five hundred.

47%6
of candidates have applied to a job that turned out not to exist
8%7
of candidates believe AI makes the hiring process more fair
Not a mockup — the registry itself

What a candidate actually sees when they search.

A real, live result from the FightGhostJobs pilot registry — every field on this card is something the employer disclosed, not something we inferred.

Real FightGhostJobs search result showing a verified posting card
One real link, not five guesses

Bogus sites borrow real company names. We give everyone one place to check the real one.

Scam and copycat postings are common enough that 95% of job seekers have hit a suspicious listing or offer3. FightGhostJobs gives both sides a single, plain directive: this is the listing, this is the real place to apply, confirmed by the actual employer.

✓
Candidates: check here first
Before you click an unfamiliar apply link, confirm it's the employer's real, current listing.
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Employers: point people here
Your FightGhostJobs listing becomes the one link you can tell candidates and recruiters is the source of truth.

Pick your path.

Free to register. Free to disclose. Free, always, for every candidate who checks.

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Sources
1, 2 — Greenhouse, 2024 State of Job Hunting Report (2,500 workers, US/UK/Germany) and Greenhouse platform-data analysis, reported by Fox.
3 — Monster, 2026 Job Scam Report (884 U.S. full-time workers, March 2026).
4 — iHire, 2026 State of Online Recruiting Report.
5 — Zippia, Job Hunters Can Expect To Spend 51 Hours Just Filling Out Applications (average application time × average applications to land a role).
6 — Enhancv, 2026 ghost jobs survey (1,000 U.S. professionals, March 2026).
7 — Greenhouse, 2025 AI in Hiring Report (4,136 respondents — 2,900 job seekers, 1,236 recruiters/hiring managers, November 2025).
Figures current as of publication; we'll update this page if newer data supersedes them.
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