“Never, under any circumstances, pay for employment!” - experts who are familiar with the pitfalls of the labor market never tire of repeating, but many applicants are still caught by scammers and suffer significant financial losses.
What are the most common job search fraud schemes? Superjob specialists decided to analyze the most common fraud schemes in the labor market today.
Scheme 1
Vacancy Charge
Recently, a lot of dubious commercial employment services have appeared, which promise to help the candidate with employment for a fee. In fact, the applicant is simply printed out vacancies from open sources or even sent for interviews to non-existent addresses.
Turning to consultants in the field of employment, carefully study the list of services they offer and do not pay for information that is freely available - on the Internet or in print media. However, do not confuse such commercial services with consulting companies specializing in training on interviewing, career counseling, etc.
Scheme 2
Guaranteed Employment
If you hear the phrase “guaranteed employment” and at the same time you are offered to pay money for such a guarantee, then this is a 100% fraud!
There can be no guarantees in the process of employment, unless the company promising such employment does not belong to your close relative.
The services of a recruiting agency are always paid by the employer, and recruiters cannot influence the choice of the customer. This is customary throughout the world, a similar practice exists with us, so decent recruitment agencies do not take money from applicants. Your employment is only your merit, therefore you do not owe anything to the recruitment agency.
Scheme 3
Sale of posts
Trafficking in posts is a criminal offense. In this case, in a conspiracy between the employer and the intermediary (for example, an agency employee), a candidate who has previously bribed is accepted into the company. As a rule, such situations arise in large organizations whose shareholders do not control business processes. Perhaps this way you really will get into the company, but you are unlikely to work in it for a long time, as you will have to make room for the next solvent applicant.
Scheme 4
"And you go learn"
Bypass the announcement of the ideal job, which they take all without exception and for which they promise a high salary. Such vacancies are published by scammers who extort money from applicants. Free cheese happens only in a mousetrap!
In reality, the authors of such announcements will not offer you any work, but they will certainly convince you to purchase any educational materials, insurance certificate or transfer money to a specific pension fund.
Scheme 5
Paid calls and sms
You may also encounter very attractive vacancies without providing employer contact information. In order to contact the HR, you will be asked not to send a resume, but to make a call or send an SMS message, after which a certain amount will be debited from your mobile phone account.
This scheme has variations. For example, you may be invited to fill out the questionnaire in the personnel department and only then they will offer to send a paid SMS message - supposedly so that you can find out about the fate of your application.
Another option: you receive a letter from a supposedly large and reputable organization informing you that your candidacy has passed a competitive selection for admission to the state. However, to comply with all formalities you need to register on the site. For registration, it is proposed to send sms - of course, the message is paid.
Scheme 6
Instead of salary - loan obligations
If you unexpectedly received an encouraging letter about joining a well-known company, think about whether there are scammers in front of you? Sometimes the authors of such a message suggest sending them a copy of the passport (supposedly for employment), and then in return they send some papers for signature. An attentive applicant will notice that instead of an employment contract he is offered to sign nothing more than ... documents for a bank loan.
Scheme 7
Attention, remote work!
Those who intend to work remotely need to be especially vigilant. Fraudsters have mastered such a scheme of luring money: applicants are offered to leave a large amount as a guarantee that they really will not fail and will perform the assigned work. “But how else - we don’t know you yet, suddenly you will let us down,” the crooks convince. Or they ask to transfer a certain amount “for opening an electronic wallet”, to which the salary will be allegedly transferred later.
However, remote workers can be deceived in a simpler, "traditional" way - simply without paying for their work. They entrust a considerable amount of work (for example, to translate a book), then they demand to send them the results - and that’s it, look for the winds in the field. Phones of the "employer" do not answer, emails seem to fly away nowhere.
However, this does not mean that working remotely is always a risk. Remote work uses a lot of decent employers.
Under no circumstances should you pay for employment! In the civilized labor market, there is no such service as an “employment service”!
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