查看完整版本: Does online job-hunting have to be “caveat emptor?”

Does online job-hunting have to be “caveat emptor?”

Whether you’re a recruiter posting jobs, a “quiet working professional,” or an Unserved job seeker, navigating the employment process online can be daunting. Figuring out how to maximize your online exposure is tricky enough, but with an ever-increasing number of fake job sites out there, it’s getting even trickier. Posting your resume (or any other potentially sensitive information) on a job board can open you up to some serious security risks, even if that job board is well-known and considered reputable. Even the pros are subject to job-search scams and phishing.)WM{@
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"XQo.k/?*M1n#t"M In his post over at InfoWorld Daily, Nick Corcodilos, President of North Bridge Group and a 28-year headhunter, tells a story about a recent solicitation that looked like it was from CareerBuilder (but – of course – wasn’t). Similarly, a recent InsideRecruiting post tells of blogger Tabitha Marshall and her fight against job-hunt scams:
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Writer Tabitha Marshall is not actively looking for employment, but she has decided to turn her resume into phish bait as she tests the big job boards.
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s;Sbop After months of blogging about her correspondence from pyramid scheme “opportunities” and other scams, she reports that “after making my Monster resume private, I was actually able to enjoy a scam-free inbox for a couple weeks.”
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1Vn:XtYLXC(Xn On her own blog, Marshall argues that “a lot of big-name companies are using those job boards and haven’t even got a clue what it’s like for the poor schmuck on the seeking end.” Job boards admit that they aren’t in the practice of carefully screening each and every “employer” or “job-seeker” out there, so there’s very little being done to weed out the scammers from the legitimate users. They don’t have much incentive to, either.
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As a PDF invoice attached to Nick Corcodilos’ post shows, the resumes collected by HotJobs.com HotResumes.com earned them over $1,400. He points out that the value for the fake resume he posted with them comes out to $0.33622. Since that’s not much of a margin, job-boards apparently try to compensate with volume, and that’s going to expose job-seekers to a lot of scams.