The Phantom Market: Why Performative Hiring Is a Recruiter's Problem, Not Just a Candidate's

Published byEnhancv R&D12 Aug 2026|News archiveThe Phantom Market: Why Performative Hiring Is a Recruiter's Problem, Not Just a Candidate'sGhost jobs used to be filed under candidate gripes: an annoyance for job seekers, nothing recruiters needed to track. That's no longer true. A new dataset pairs a 1,000-person US job seeker survey with Bureau of Labor Statistics hiring records, Enhancv's 2026 Ghost Jobs Survey, (both drawn from the same window: January 2026, the most recent BLS data avail