Why Job Ads Without Salary or Contact Details Are Destroying Trust in Recruitment
- Nov 21
- 2 min read
If you want to see the Talentology AU IT Talent Community fired up, mention job ads with no salary and no contact details. You’ll get a disappointed grimace every time, and honestly, I feel the same.
A post from Kerry Young this week hit the nail on the head…
We’re still seeing job ads in 2025 with:
❌ No salary or rate
❌ No advertiser name
❌ No phone number
❌ No accountability
And we wonder why job seekers feel lost.
Salary secrecy isn’t confusion - it’s strategy.
It keeps the leverage with employers and forces job seekers - especially +45 tech professionals - to guess, hope, undersell themselves, and then deal with silence when expectations don’t align.
And the “no contact details” trend?
That’s convenience dressed up as process.
If you’re hiring humans, a human should be reachable.
Otherwise you get zero transparency, zero accountability and a whole lot of ghosting.
Here’s the part no one likes to say out loud:
🔹 70–80% of roles are filled through networks, not job boards.
🔹 And not every job ad is even real.
Some are duplicates.
Some are market tests.
Some are resume collectors.
Some train AI models.
Some already have an internal hire decided.
Some are just “we must advertise to be fair” theatre.
Meanwhile job seekers spend HOURS applying for roles that were never going anywhere.
It’s hard enough being a job seeker in 2025 without wasting time on jobs that never existed in the first place.
And then candidates are still asked for salary expectations - or worse, past salaries.
Why?
How does a previous salary define someone’s value today?
It doesn’t. It’s just another imbalance labelled “process.”
Talentology’s stance is simple:
Salary ranges and contact names should be mandatory in job ads.
Not optional.
Not “industry dependent.”
Just the minimum standard of respect.
People deserve honesty.
They deserve clarity.
They deserve a human process.
To those doing it right — thank you. Kudos to you!
And to Kerry Young - thanks for sparking the conversation. More voices needed.
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