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There's something broken about the job market that nobody with the power to fix it has the incentive to fix. Job boards make money per listing. Real or fake, they get paid either way. Companies face zero consequences for posting roles they never plan to fill. And the entire cost of this system falls on the person spending 45 minutes tailoring their resume for a position that was dead before they opened it. These are called ghost jobs. Listings that companies keep active to look like they're growing, to collect resumes for later, to satisfy internal HR metrics, or to make current employees feel replaceable. This is not a fringe problem. A January 2025 Clarify Capital study found that 1 in 3 employers have posted listings with no intention of hiring. ResumeBuilder surveyed 650+ hiring managers and found that 40% of companies posted at least one fake job in the past year. In tech, 79% of those fake listings were still active when researchers checked. A LiveCareer survey of 918 HR professionals found that 93% post ghost jobs either regularly or occasionally. I kept seeing people I know burn weeks applying to listings that had been up for months with hundreds of applicants and zero movement. The frustration wasn't about rejection. Rejection is fine. It was about silence. About spending real time and emotional energy on something that was never real to begin with. So I built Verity. It's a free Chrome extension that scores job listings before you apply. Open any listing on LinkedIn, Indeed, or Glassdoor. Verity analyzes it in seconds and gives you a verdict: likely real, uncertain, or probably a ghost. Every verdict is transparent. You see exactly why. Posting age. Repost history. Whether a recruiter is attached. How specific the description is. Whether salary is disclosed. How many applicants are piling up with no sign of hiring activity. No black box. No subscription. No data collection. I didn't build this because I think I can fix the hiring system. I built it because the least we can do is give people the information to stop wasting their time on listings that were never meant for them.