How the Ghost Job Check works

Simon reads only the job title, company, and description you paste. It does not browse the web, contact the employer, or use any data beyond the text you provide. It scores the posting from 0 to 100 for ghost-job risk across five dimensions: posting quality and specificity, vague or template language, missing hiring context, generic or contradictory language, and verifiable positive signals.

Every check gives you one of five plain-language results, from "Looks like a real opening" to "Likely a ghost job — we'd skip it." Each comes with one sentence telling you what to do next. There is also a risk score from 0 to 100 — a higher number means the posting has more warning signs. The score is a reading of the words in the posting, not a measurement of the employer. A high score means the posting looks stale or generic; a low score means it reads like a real, specific job.

Simon cannot verify whether an employer has approved headcount, whether an internal candidate already exists, whether a requisition is frozen, or whether the employer intends to hire. A Ghost Job Check is a prompt to investigate, not a verdict. Always confirm a role on the employer's official careers page before you rely on it.

We do not store the job description text. We keep a one-way fingerprint of your input for 14 days so an identical check returns the same answer without re-running the analysis, and a de-identified aggregate record (score, risk level, category tags — no free text) for research. Full detail is in our Privacy Policy. We never sell this data.

The score and the signal explanations are generated by a large language model. Every result is advisory. You decide whether a posting is worth your time.