Can any Employment Recruiter Explain the Benefits of a Fake Job Posting?

On a daily basis I see numerous postings all from agencies claiming to have jobs some temp and many for direct hire positions, I like many others have applied for these jobs thinking they were genuine, when talking face to face with a recruiter it is not even mentioned the so called job that I applied to and you called me in for. When I bring it up, you just brush it off as oh that job has been already filled. It was just posted a few days ago and is still posted for others to apply to. Well why didn't you tell me that so I didn't have to make arrangements for baby sitting, change an appointment for an interview that could overlap with our meeting, miss an appointment to have my car repaired? In the normal world you are paid when you make a sale, and in this case would be placing someone in a job. You don't make money placeing someone for a job that no company will pay for if it does not exist. I know that you recruiters are all over the boards, why don't you take the time while the volumne of jobs coming in is next to nothing to explain this to the millions of viewers out here? If you did your job right, all these people would have nothing to gripe about, but we all can't be wrong.....its you. Explanation please?

I'm not a recruiter, but I'll take a stab. Mind you, I'm speculating, but I doubt I'm very far off.

I see Robert Half run a dozen ads a day on this site and the others for my specific field and job. Believe me, this job sector and particular job have been decimated over the last four years, yet Half still continuously runs ads proclaiming they have jobs.

I believe what happens is that recruiters allow their people a certain budget to run ads on sites like this one, regardless of whether there is an actual job available. The reason I believe they do this is because they have to get people in and signed up. Their pay is somehow connected to it, as in a quota system.

So you will see the same ads for the same "jobs" posted by individual recruiters at recruiting agencies. I've seen one posted by Kelly every single week for the last nine months that has the same misspelled word (position) right in the link. That can't possibly be legitimate.

So, I would say they post fake ads to get you signed up to meet their quotas. They're hoping having more people signed up will make them look good to a potential employer and that they'll get the ultimate candidate.

It's nonsense. Avoid them all.