Recruiter scams are everywhere. EVERYWHERE. Whenever a recruiter DMs or emails me, my first thought is, "This isn't real." And yet, some of them are. So how can you identify the legit from the fake?
• Legit recruiters don't charge for their services and will never ask you to spend money on anything ("I'd love to submit you for this job, but first you need to pay this other person to fix your resume" << SCAM).
• Legit recruiters don't ask for sensitive information.
• Legit recruiters have real LinkedIn profiles. This platform is their bread and butter. If you can't find them on LinkedIn or their profile looks off to you (0 connections, vague job descriptions, almost no information at all, etc.), it's probably a scam. Trust your gut.
If you get an email from someone claiming to be a recruiter, see if you can find them on LinkedIn. And check out their email address. Does it look off? My favorite thing to do lately is to copy and paste their email address into Google and ask, "Is this a legit email address?" On multiple occasions the result I got was, "This is a known recruiting scam." Done. Thanks, Google.
You're unemployed. You're in a vulnerable situation. And you may even feel desperate. DO NOT LOWER YOUR GUARD. Things can get far worse for you if you trust the wrong people. And there are plenty of jerks who will try to take you for a ride. 🤯
Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book. It has survived not only five centuries, but also the leap into electronic typesetting, remaining essentially unchanged. It was popularised in the 1960s with the release of Letraset sheets containing Lorem Ipsum passages, and more recently with desktop publishing software like Aldus PageMaker including versions of Lorem Ipsum.
Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book. It has survived not only five centuries, but also the leap into electronic typesetting, remaining essentially unchanged. It was popularised in the 1960s with the release of Letraset sheets containing Lorem Ipsum passages, and more recently with desktop publishing software like Aldus PageMaker including versions of Lorem Ipsum.