I recently applied for an IT Specialist position at Hetherington Group, an OSINT and cyber investigations firm. Seemed like a great fit—until they sent me a rejection email stating the position didn’t actually exist.

Why post a job if it’s not real? Either:

1. They’re so disorganized that they don’t manage their own listings properly, or 2. They intentionally collect resumes without planning to hire. 

Neither is a good look for a company claiming to specialize in intelligence gathering. If they can’t even run a transparent hiring process, how reliable is their OSINT work?

Also, their site focuses on basic OSINT training and surface-level cyber investigations—but there’s no evidence of advanced automation, AI-driven recon, or real security research. If they were serious about OSINT, they’d be hiring people who actually build tools, not rejecting them.

Anyone else run into misleading job postings like this? Let’s talk about it—this seems like a wider problem in cybersecurity & OSINT hiring