Question 1

What is a ghost job?

Accepted Answer

A ghost job is a posting a company publishes with no real intent to fill it right now. Companies post them to build a resume pipeline for later, to look like they are growing, to satisfy internal policy before an internal hire, or simply forget to take stale listings down. Industry reviews and recruiter surveys over the last two years consistently estimate that roughly one in five open listings is not actively being hired for, which is why applying can feel like sending resumes into a void.

Question 2

How does the detector decide the score?

Accepted Answer

It reads the posting text you paste and weighs known ghost-job and scam signals against legitimacy signals: vague versus specific responsibilities, salary transparency, talent-pool wording like always accepting applications, contradictory experience requirements, urgency pressure, recruiter contact channels, and any request for fees or sensitive documents. Fee or document requests weigh heaviest because they are the classic markers of recruitment fraud. The result is a 0 to 100 score where higher means the posting reads like a real, active vacancy.

Question 3

Does a low score mean the company is fake?

Accepted Answer

No. The score evaluates the posting text, not the employer. A legitimate company can publish a vague, stale, or evergreen listing, and a scammer can copy a real company's name into a fake one. Treat a low score as a signal to verify before investing time: check the role on the company's own careers page, confirm the recruiter's email domain matches the company, and never pay any fee at any stage of a hiring process.

Question 4

Is my pasted job posting stored anywhere?

Accepted Answer

No. The posting text is sent to our API only to generate that one report and is not stored. It is processed transiently, used to produce the score and flags you see, and then discarded, not saved to a database or reused for anything else.

Question 5

Is there a daily limit?

Accepted Answer

Yes, a daily free limit exists and resets automatically, tracked per browser. Signing in with a free LastRound AI account raises your limit. There is no charge either way.

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