You applied to forty jobs last month and heard back from three. You're starting to wonder if anyone is actually reading your applications — or if some of those jobs were ever real in the first place. Here's the uncomfortable truth: some of them weren't. "Ghost jobs" — postings for roles a company isn't actively filling, or already filled, or never intended to fill — are real, they're common, and lawmakers have finally noticed. What just changed New York is about to become the

You've seen the posting: "Entry-level position. 2-3 years of experience required." And you've wondered how you're supposed to get experience for a job that requires experience you can't get without a job. You're not imagining the trap — and new data this month proves it's real. What actually changed An analysis released this month by the hiring platform Cadient, covered in Forbes on August 2, tracked 7,984 salaried job openings across the same panel of employers from 2022 to

You saw the headline Friday. The U.S. economy shed 23,000 jobs in July. And if you're in the middle of a job search, your first thought wasn't about the economy — it was about you. Am I wasting my time? Should I even bother applying right now? Let's take a breath and look at what the numbers actually say. Because a slow market doesn't mean a closed market. It means the rules changed, and most people haven't read the new rules yet. You're about to. What actually happened On Au

As AI takes over more of the rote work, employers are paying a premium for what it can't do. PwC's 2026 Global AI Jobs Barometer found that entry-level roles are now 7x more likely to demand senior human skills — judgment, communication, leadership — than they were a few years ago. In plain terms: the human layer used to be a bonus. Now it's the job. Here's the catch most people miss. It's not enough to have these skills — you have to prove them, on your resume and in the roo