Spot the Fake Job Postings, Labor Day 2017
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What's funny is that I pointed out to the recruiter that this was obviously fake. Then they accidentally had some respond to me that they were blocking me. No conversation, nothing. Just blocked me. Which tells me they know exactly what they are doing and felt better to shut off communications than to risk further exposure.
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@scottalanmiller said in Spot the Fake Job Postings, Labor Day 2017:
What's funny is that I pointed out to the recruiter that this was obviously fake. Then they accidentally had some respond to me that they were blocking me. No conversation, nothing. Just blocked me. Which tells me they know exactly what they are doing and felt better to shut off communications than to risk further exposure.
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Scott, are you saying people are putting job adverts online with the intention of not hiring people, just scavenging contact information for $purposes? Is this what you mean by fake, or are you claiming that since SMB hiring people dont know IT their job adverts appear fake?
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@momurda said in Spot the Fake Job Postings, Labor Day 2017:
Scott, are you saying people are putting job adverts online with the intention of not hiring people, just scavenging contact information for $purposes? Is this what you mean by fake, or are you claiming that since SMB hiring people dont know IT their job adverts appear fake?
From what I understood, both.
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@momurda said in Spot the Fake Job Postings, Labor Day 2017:
Scott, are you saying people are putting job adverts online with the intention of not hiring people, just scavenging contact information for $purposes? Is this what you mean by fake, or are you claiming that since SMB hiring people dont know IT their job adverts appear fake?
I mean fake in the broad sense - anything that is intentionally lying to offer one job and not intend to provide it. So could be that the job isn't the one listed, it's a bait and switch or, as you say, a majority is likely collecting information to use in some questionable way.
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@momurda said in Spot the Fake Job Postings, Labor Day 2017:
... or are you claiming that since SMB hiring people dont know IT their job adverts appear fake?
This might be the case, but APPEARING fake and BEING fake isn't the same. In this case, I'm 100% sure the job is fake. Especially after I pointed it out and they blocked me instead of explaining. Running completely fake ads to collect data, get workers on the line or similar is super common, to the point of being the vast majority of postings. We can't prove any specific ad is fake, but there are really handy tell tale signs and this one is over the top.
It's true that many legitimate SMB job postings might appear fake, but make are actually fake, too. Faking SMB jobs are less risky than faking big enterprise ones in many cases.
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@scottalanmiller said in Spot the Fake Job Postings, Labor Day 2017:
@momurda said in Spot the Fake Job Postings, Labor Day 2017:
... or are you claiming that since SMB hiring people dont know IT their job adverts appear fake?
This might be the case, but APPEARING fake and BEING fake isn't the same. In this case, I'm 100% sure the job is fake. Especially after I pointed it out and they blocked me instead of explaining. Running completely fake ads to collect data, get workers on the line or similar is super common, to the point of being the vast majority of postings. We can't prove any specific ad is fake, but there are really handy tell tale signs and this one is over the top.
It's true that many legitimate SMB job postings might appear fake, but make are actually fake, too. Faking SMB jobs are less risky than faking big enterprise ones in many cases.
Well, you could always point them to your long lost rich uncle in Nigeria. Hook them up with his email and info!
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@scottalanmiller said in Spot the Fake Job Postings, Labor Day 2017:
It's the belief that all job postings are real that leads people to think that all jobs require degrees, that ancient outdated skills are the only ones used, that IT pay is a fraction of what it is. Companies and recruiting firms make big money from fake job postings.
Assuming Scott's assertion is correct, then I would agree with this.
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@scottalanmiller said in Spot the Fake Job Postings, Labor Day 2017:
they can collect. It's a standard data collection model and the two things, job postings and online dating, are nearly identical in
We need a new thread where Scott posts fake job postings and his replies (when they reply) about them being fake.
This would also explain why there appears to be so few actual jobs out there - at least so few actually hiring. Like email in general - according to Scott, something like xyz% of jobs listed are fake, I'm guessing it's a huge percentage.
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@dashrender said in Spot the Fake Job Postings, Labor Day 2017:
@scottalanmiller said in Spot the Fake Job Postings, Labor Day 2017:
they can collect. It's a standard data collection model and the two things, job postings and online dating, are nearly identical in
We need a new thread where Scott posts fake job postings and his replies (when they reply) about them being fake.
This would also explain why there appears to be so few actual jobs out there - at least so few actually hiring. Like email in general - according to Scott, something like xyz% of jobs listed are fake, I'm guessing it's a huge percentage.
Exactly. It creates this feeling that no one is hiring, which is kind of true. There are places hiring, only so many of them use these services, many do not. There is no central clearing house for work. Then it makes everyone in the industry feel like they are not desirable, often because they just apply to fake jobs over and over again and never get a response. In most cases, like this one, the person to whom I responded, never responded. That happens constantly. There is no "person" on the other end of the email.
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Saw a good one today on ZipRecruiter:
Continuous Improvement Manager
Hiring Company Seattle, WA USAYeah, I'll get right on that....
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@travisdh1 said in Spot the Fake Job Postings, Labor Day 2017:
Saw a good one today on ZipRecruiter:
Continuous Improvement Manager
Hiring Company Seattle, WA USAYeah, I'll get right on that....
Is it a manager of continuous improvement, or an improvement manager who has been doing it continuously?
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@travisdh1 Could be Valve with a title like that.
