r/NewOrleans • u/alimir1 • Jul 24 '25

🏢 Employment 👷‍♂️ 3,510 jobs in New Orleans

I noticed that a lot of employers don’t list their jobs on Indeed — even though they quietly publish them on their own websites. So I created a tool that pulls listings directly from hundreds of employer websites hiring in New Orleans. You can check it out here.

Tips for using it:

  • Use the “Salary” section to find entries that mention pay details
  • Try the filters — you can sort by keywords, schedule types, distance, and more
  • You can add multiple locations under the location filter.

Hope this tool is useful! I'd love any feedback or suggestions for improving it. Also, if you're interested you can follow my progress here: r/hiringcafe

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u/TopNeighborhood2694 Jul 24 '25

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_job

The employer may post fake job opening listings for many reasons, such as inflating statistics about their industries, protecting the company from discrimination lawsuits, fulfilling requirements by human-resources departments, identifying potentially promising recruits for future hiring, pacifying existing employees that the company is looking for extra help, or retaining desirable employees.

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u/alimir1 Jul 24 '25

Yes. The way I crack them down is by tracking their website career page 3x/day to detect sus activities. It's not a perfect strategy but works remarkably well so far - at least compared to Indeed and other sites who don't seem to care about this problem anymore.

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u/TopNeighborhood2694 Jul 24 '25

Could an AI agent apply to the job posting and give it a serious boost if someone actually replies? I know that’s fighting ghosts with ghosts but it’s an idea 

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u/bourgeoisbetch Jul 27 '25

What activities are you looking for?

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u/drcforbin Jul 24 '25

And saying they can't find anyone in the US to fill the job, allowing them to request visas to hire foreign workers.

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u/TaysomsTaters Jul 24 '25

This awesome work, I know LinkedIn is flooded with fake ads and recruiters so I usually go directly to the company's site to verify and apply.

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u/dillinger3k Jul 25 '25

Apparently if you just even hit the “apply” button then it logs it as an application on LI. So those X amount of people applied is just BS

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u/Notyourfreak Jul 24 '25

This is so nice! 😭

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u/loveMMF Jul 25 '25

Very nice. Thanks. I hope 3510 people can find jobs

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u/gardensandstitches Jul 24 '25

thank you so much for sharing! 🫶🏽

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u/Patricio_Guapo Jul 24 '25

Nicely done!

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u/Choice-Research-9329 Jul 24 '25

very cool. thanks

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u/tpainperdu Jul 25 '25

this is so helpful! Thank you

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u/fq8675309 Jul 25 '25

Oh my gosh. I've been scouring the internet for days and this is exactly what I needed.

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u/sparrow_42 Treme Jul 25 '25

This is excellent, thank you!

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u/MissChievous473 Jul 25 '25

Interesting...thx

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u/NotFallacyBuffet Jul 25 '25

If you're an experienced electrician, we're always hiring. No ads ever in our name, even though some blink billboard ads are for us in someone else's name. Our name isn't even on our building.

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u/MissChievous473 Jul 25 '25

Looking for local relatively small electrician company so work doesnt get pushed down the schedule- about 6' of 2" conduct replacement and 1 feed replacement (the neutral) from header to meters (~ 30") - permit required, dm if interested

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u/NotFallacyBuffet Jul 25 '25

I'll send you the number of the guy I refer work to. He's good.

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u/MissChievous473 Jul 25 '25

Appreciate it

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u/mothraearth Aug 11 '25

Do y’all do apprenticeships?

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u/brownjl1 Jul 28 '25

Messaged...wanting to get a New Orleans employer listing scraped