Is the end of the year a good time to job search? Here’s why the next two months may beat waiting for January, and how to plan for it.

Jay Jones has tracked down nearly 60,000 fake job postings and flagged roughly 7,000 scam profiles on LinkedIn, work detailed in a recent Wall Street Journal profile that calls him The Profiler. His story is not just compelling, but it also reveals how sophisticated this problem has gotten, even for people who consider themselves careful.

There's a small industry built around a simple pitch: pay a fee, upload your resume, and let AI apply to hundreds or even thousands of jobs while you focus elsewhere. Tools like LoopCV, Perplexity, and Jobright promise exactly that, auto-submitting applications across dozens of job boards with no manual effort. It sounds like what an exhausted job seeker needs. According to Greenhouse CEO Daniel Chait, it's making the problem worse.

Job offer ghosting and rescinded offers are rising fast. Here's what the shift really reveals about today's hiring market, and what it means if you're a senior professional job searching right now.

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