Call the company. Ask. On a phone. Like a human. Then you’ll know.
Huh? You think someone is going to say, “That’s a fake job posting?”
You might get told the job is filled, or they might pretend to interview you.
Collecting resumes.
Guaging availability
Yessir. A smart haircut and a firm handshake will get you everywhere you need to go in life. You just walk right in that door, ask to fill out an application and demand to speak to Mr. General Electric. You tell them you're the man who is going to make his next great light bulb machine. /sarc
Whether you like it, or you don't like it, if you can actually find a phone number for a company, and that phone number actually eventually connects you to a human, nobody who answers it is going to know squat about job postings. Chances of you even finding an email address that gets answered by a human are minimal these days.
You're either going to talk to a salesman who wants to sell you something or a customer service rep who is willing to talk to you because you already bought something from them.
Someone's still living in the 20th century and out of touch with modern reality.
I was hired for a job with the state but the office got a call from HQ that I wasn’t diverse enough. They had to fill the position with a black. For years and years, that position was never filled and finally taken down. This was in the 1980s so nothing has changed but maybe an increase in the scam.