When it says company name is "Confidential"- what does this mean?
A "Confidential" posting means that the company chooses to remain anonymous. This typically happens for one of a few reasons.
- Someone is about to get fired and the company is looking to find a replacement without tipping them off
- The company doesn't want to deal with the sea of people wanting to follow up via the phone. Yes when it says, "No phone calls" they are serious. It is not a test to see if you really want the job and so you will call. Keep in mind that the average posting gets about 1000 people looking at it and so they would have to hire someone full time just to field the phone calls about the job or the calls of "I just want to make sure you got my resume"
- We post a lot of jobs from a lot of "big shots" and what Employers want is normal professionals applying to jobs, what they don't want is a Jennifer Lopez/Brad Pitt/Jennifer Lawrence fan applying to a job that they don't have any business going after.
**UPDATE**We just fielded a support question about the concern of applying to the confidential postings. We manually screen each posting and we run a check on all new employers using the site so the reality is that a confidential posting can really be one of the "better" jobs that we have on the site.
Unfortunately, we cannot reveal to anyone who the company is. We realize that for some job seekers who are currently employed you don't want to apply to a confidential job at your own company (this has happened) or otherwise get outed to your employer that you are looking.
This industry is filled with go-getters, if you are looking and you get "caught" congratulations, you are just like everyone else.
Article ID: 18, Created: 8/22/2007 at 2:42 PM, Modified: 11/18/2017 at 4:18 AM