Doki wrote:

I've just spent the afternoon for preparing a job application, which has the
closing date specified as today. Which usually means applications can be
submitted until midnight. But of course, in this case, means that they
actually closed last night...

A friend of my eldest os a recruitment consultant. She told me recently
that there are very few real job on the books of the recruiters. They
advertise non-existent jobs to harvest CVs and to get lists of refereees
that they will use as sales contacts. They pretend to callers that jobs
exist, set impossible deadlines, ask candidates when they are free for
interview then set interviews when the candidate can't attend and they
simply lie through their teeth and say the job was taken.

Nice people, not.