Nearly All Job Postings Are Fake SAMIT Video
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@scottalanmiller said in Nearly All Job Postings Are Fake SAMIT Video:
One of the most shocking revelations you find once you dig into the IT field is the high percentage of fake or semi-fake job postings and listings that you will find. How can this be? Why would this happen? Is no one overseeing these things and doing something about this?
I remember watching this on YouTube a few months this ago. I've been going through them like a podcast on my way to work. I even listen to some of the beginner stuff to get a different perspective on foundational stuff. Good videos.
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@scottalanmiller said in Nearly All Job Postings Are Fake SAMIT Video:
One of the most shocking revelations you find once you dig into the IT field is the high percentage of fake or semi-fake job postings and listings that you will find. How can this be? Why would this happen? Is no one overseeing these things and doing something about this?
This literally happened to me. However, I had a good job at the time that I was very very hesitate to leave in the first place. I was really looking for something better. I told them to go fly a kite. It shocked them.
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why does anyone waste time posting the job then?
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also, the format for the stie seemns to be off. I can't even see waht I am typing in the reply window. The notification icons are taking up the first half of the page.
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@wrx7m said in Nearly All Job Postings Are Fake SAMIT Video:
also, the format for the stie seemns to be off. I can't even see waht I am typing in the reply window. The notification icons are taking up the first half of the page.
A few people have mentioned that, but most of us can't recreate it and those that have seen it refreshed their browsers and said that it went away.
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@wrx7m said in Nearly All Job Postings Are Fake SAMIT Video:
why does anyone waste time posting the job then?
Posting the job? Because there is a ton of value is using fake job postings to harvest data about job seekers. Compare it to SPAM email or fake Tinder profiles - they are snares to trap the gullible or to just collect general data. It's essentially free and zero effort to do, but an incredibly powerful tool for collecting data or more.
The issue is actually the opposite than you picture. To you it seems like a waste of time. But in reality, it's worth so much money to have fake job postings that it is amazing any real jobs remain at all.
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Sometimes they hide it pretty well but sometimes it makes me wonder how dumb the person is doing the actual fake posting.
Scouring Indeed last week to take a peak. (No specific link) I was for a Windows System Administrator/ Azure Admin and the very first item in the list of Duties to Perform was to Admin Unix Linux and AWS.
I think Windows AD was the only MS related item on the posting too.
My guess was it was totally fake or someone messed up the cut/paste job.
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@pmoncho said in Nearly All Job Postings Are Fake SAMIT Video:
Sometimes they hide it pretty well but sometimes it makes me wonder how dumb the person is doing the actual fake posting.
While sometimes they are just dumb, for sure, I think that's actually intentional much of the time. Posting clever "looks real" jobs gets you totally different results than a "obviously no one can think this is real" posting. One acts like a honeypot to spot blind blasts, desperation, cluelessness, scams, etc.
If I was willing to do this, even if I had real job postings, I'd want obviously BS ones, too. Then you could filter out people who posted to both because you know they are just scatter shotting and not taking their search seriously.
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@pmoncho said in Nearly All Job Postings Are Fake SAMIT Video:
Scouring Indeed last week to take a peak. (No specific link) I was for a Windows System Administrator/ Azure Admin and the very first item in the list of Duties to Perform was to Admin Unix Linux and AWS.
Yeah, either zero effort, or carefully crafted scam.
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@pmoncho said in Nearly All Job Postings Are Fake SAMIT Video:
My guess was it was totally fake or someone messed up the cut/paste job.
Or... both.
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@scottalanmiller said in Nearly All Job Postings Are Fake SAMIT Video:
@pmoncho said in Nearly All Job Postings Are Fake SAMIT Video:
My guess was it was totally fake or someone messed up the cut/paste job.
Or... both.
It was confusing to me and then I laughed because of all the talk of fake job postings.
