Ghosted in the Job Search: Why Employers Go Silent, How to Spot Ghost Jobs and Fake Postings, and What to Do When Your Applications Disappear (The Career Search) by Byron Veasey
English | June 12, 2026 | ASIN: B0H4X2W1YS | 174 pages | EPUB | 2.30 Mb
You applied. You followed up. You waited.
Then the company disappeared.
No rejection. No explanation. No closure.
And after enough silence, even a professional with twenty years of results starts asking the one question the system was never going to answer: what is wrong with me?
Nothing is wrong with you. Something is wrong with the posting.
A significant share of the jobs advertised online right now are not real openings. They are pipeline collection, budget placeholders, roles already promised to an internal candidate, requisitions frozen three months ago that nobody took down, and postings kept live to make a company look like it is growing. You are not failing to get hired. You are applying into vacancies that were never going to be filled.
Ghosted in the Job Search separates what the hiring system is doing from what the silence is making you believe.
This is not a book about applying harder. It is a diagnostic and a system: how to tell a real opening from a ghost job before you spend a week on it, how to get seen before a role is ever posted, and how to protect your confidence while the market stays quiet.
Inside, you will learn how to:
Read a job posting for the six signals that it may not represent an active, funded opening
Stop measuring your professional worth by an employer's response rate
Cut your dependence on crowded application portals without cutting your volume of opportunities
Build visibility with decision-makers before a position is publicly advertised
Use direct outreach and professional credibility in place of the apply button
Hold your confidence steady through a stretch of silence that has nothing to do with you
Rebuild the search around evidence instead of hope
Decide, on a rule rather than a mood, when to follow up, move on, or redirect
Turn thirty years of experience into a signal the current market can actually read
Written for experienced professionals-the people this market ghosts most often and explains itself to least.
Byron K. Veasey spent more than thirty-five years inside large organizations, including Deloitte, AT&T, KPMG, Arthur Andersen, and Morgan Stanley, and was laid off more than once along the way. He writes without hustle, without toxic positivity, and without the suggestion that the right attitude will fix a broken process.
You are not invisible. You are applying into a system built to keep its reasons to itself.
It is time to stop chasing every posting, start identifying the real ones, and take back the confidence this market tried to charge you for.
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