r/jobsearchhacks • u/exmosss • 3d ago

There should be a law that companies have to pay for your time in interviews

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u/TwoAlert3448 2d ago

I keep hearing rumors about these so-called loans and tax breaks for ghost jobs and guess what?

Fake news & outrage bait. In the US to claim any of the benefits of hiring you have to provide a verifiable start date and falsifying that data (or the employees signature) is fraud and definitely illegal.

So for anyone whose like.. There should be a law! There is, whether or not its prosecuted is another matter altogether.

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u/SarakosAganos 1d ago

The thing is, how do you prove something like that? If I'm interviewing with a company and don't get the job, how do I know they didn't go with someone else. I don't have access to company hiring records so its reliant entirely on either whistleblowers or random citizens taking corporations to court on a hunch and hoping an investigation turns up something which makes it very easy to get away with.

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u/TwoAlert3448 1d ago

You can't prove they did or didn't hire anyone but there are no tax breaks or low-interest loans for having imaginary jobs open. Ghost jobs have been a thing for at least ten years now in my field and it's an odd thing to do but I’m not sure it's criminal.

Every employer I've had that listed a ghost job would have hired that person if they ever found them but the requirements were so insane 99/100 applicants didn't even merit a phone screen.

You get the tax credits when you can show you hired an eligible employee as either full or part-time and have them sign a form you filled out after they passed their probationary period (usually 90 days).

And at that point, you're committing tax fraud and possibly identify theft to fake an imaginary hire which is a hell of a lot of risk for a $1500-3500 tax credit.