Why Is Everyone ‘Hiring’ but No One Can Get Hired? I Built a Free Ghost-Job and Salary Transparency Tool

The job market has been pretty rough, especially when you’re spending hours applying through SEEK without knowing the salary range or whether a role is genuinely being filled. While I was job hunting, I built a small Python tool for myself and a few friends to help us sift through ads, estimate salary ranges when they weren’t shown, and flag signs that a listing might be a ghost job. It wasn’t meant to become anything serious, but we found it useful for deciding which applications were actually worth the time.

We’re now in jobs that we genuinely enjoy, so I rebuilt the tool as a free website called Salary Insider in case it helps other people in a similar position. The main tool checks job ads for advertised or estimated salary information and possible ghost job signals, and I’ve also added free resume/ATS and take home pay, and HECS pay off calculator tools. Hopefully they give you guys a bit more information before putting hours into applications and being ghosted like what my friends and I went through.

Here it is: Salaryinsider.com.au

TLDR: Built a tool to figure out whether a job is actually hiring and uncover Seek Salary Ranges