How to make yourself safe from online job searches?
The first thing that you need to know after steeping out from the safe shelter of academic environment is that people can do anything to rip money off you.
With today globalized economy, there is a good chance that one is going to change jobs in double digits range during the whole course of his working life. In other words, one is going to search for jobs online every now and then. Whatever applying through recruitment agencies or directly at the company websites, you need to be aware of many job scams available. These people never think twice about making quick buck from unsuspecting job seekers, who usually just been retrenched recently and not much money already.
Job scams in job advertisements usually falls under these 5 categories.
1. Request your money before employing you
I only heard of need to pay money first when enrolling at universities or learning something at some educational institutions. My university is damn good at collecting bills, quick to collect student tuition fees and slow in reimbursing payments for projects.
No legitimate company seeking employees will require them to pay them first. Please take note of that even if you are desperate for a job now.
2. Going for job interviews only to find out that it is a multi-level marketing or pyramid selling schemes.
This scenario most probably occurs to each of us at least once. Multi-level marketing and pyramid selling schemes often occur together but they are different. Nevertheless, both involve telling you to sell something which usually is selling some vitamin C that worth $20 for $200 to your friends and relatives. (For network marketing)
They got no basic pay, if got, I don’t mind joining them and do nothing, and get the basic pay at the end of the day. That’s why; Multi-level marketing and pyramid selling schemes are not usually but will always invite any Tom, Dick and Harry for “job interviews”. This is not Citibank only inviting First Class Honors to interviews for the post of investment banking.
If you are damn good at talking, you can still sell oil to Arabs and ice to Eskimos. If you are not, you better sell water in a desert.
3. Get your resume to sell you insurance
In very offline career fairs, not only online, there will always be people asking you to deposit your resumes. Getting contacts from job seekers in career fairs or even from legitimate online recruitment agencies is one standard way that every insurance companies and insurance agents do to expand their clients’ base.
While I agree that everyone needs some forms and amount of insurance coverage, one does not need more than is necessary as this will reduce current consumption and funds for investing in other instruments that will bring higher returns.
Getting insurance offers instead of job offers when you are worry about next month living expenses is really irritating.
4. Email addresses used are not company-owned email addresses but are those free web-based public email addresses.
This is one sure sign of sending your personal information to data mining companies, resulting in identity theft and a host of other problems.
Be sure that your email address is going to receive so many spams that you feel like deleting the account and apply for a new one if you do so.
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