Oh I've known about it for YEARS, it's a huge problem not talked about enough.

My friend in the UK dealt with that, lost his job due to a merger, had lot of interviews that went no where and decided to be a temp for a awhile and ended up getting a full time position through that.

Ghost jobs are extremely insidious as they both imply a labour shortage which politicians use to justify immigration while discourage and demoralise the native workforce since a lot don't realise they're applying for jobs that don't exist and think it's THEIR fault they aren't employed.