Ghosted in the Job Search: The Invisible Hiring Crisis, Corporate Phantom Postings, and How to Win Back Your Worth - Softcover

Veasey, Byron K.

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798181212695

Verlag: Independently published, 2026

Inhaltsangabe

What if the job you applied for was never really there?

You spent two hours tailoring your resume. You rewrote the cover letter. You matched the language. You submitted the application with care.

Then nothing.

No recruiter call.
No rejection.
No update.
No explanation.

Just silence.

For experienced professionals, that silence can start to feel like a verdict. You begin questioning your age, your value, your skills, your resume, your career story, and even your worth.

But what if the silence was not proof that you failed?

What if the posting itself was the problem?

Ghosted in the Job Search exposes the invisible hiring crisis behind modern job search silence: phantom job postings, stale listings, recycled roles, resume-harvesting pipelines, internal-candidate theater, AI-matching illusions, and corporate hiring signals that make the market look more active than it really is.

This volume is not another book telling you to rewrite your resume for the tenth time.

It is a verification system for job seekers who are tired of pouring time, hope, and emotional energy into roles that may never have been real opportunities.

Inside, you will learn how to:

• Recognize phantom job postings before you waste hours applying
• Use a five-minute red flag scorecard to evaluate whether a role deserves your effort
• Understand why companies post jobs they do not intend to fill
• Separate real hiring demand from corporate stagecraft
• Stop blaming yourself for silence that was never about your qualifications
• Use AI as a research assistant without letting algorithms mislead your search
• Shift from job-board dependence to a company-first search strategy
• Use referrals and human confirmation to bypass ghost postings
• Protect your confidence, time, and identity in a dishonest market
• Rebuild your search around verified opportunities, not false hope

This book is written for experienced professionals, mid-career job seekers, laid-off workers, senior candidates, and anyone who has applied to roles that seemed perfect, only to be met with silence.

The old advice says: apply more, tailor harder, fix your resume, and stay positive.

This book says, "Verify the market before you fix yourself."

Because your experience may not be the problem.

Your resume may not be the problem.

Your worth was never the problem.

The problem may be that you were applying to ghosts.

Ghosted in the Job Search gives you the language, tools, and structure to stop auditioning for phantom roles and start directing your energy toward opportunities that can actually respond.

The silence was never a verdict on your value.

It was a signal to change the way you search.

Verify first. Apply smarter. Win back your worth.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Independently published
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2026
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 13: 9798181212695
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 196
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Manufactured by Amazon on behalf of the author; https://www.amazon.de/hz/contact-us; ; c/o Amazon Media EU S.à.r.l., 38 Avenue John F. Kennedy; Luxembourg; L-1855; Luxemburg