The digital transformation of the world of work is a reality, it has long since changed how we look for work. Increasingly, we make use of job portals and other online methods to find work. So cybercriminals have found a niche of victims in job seekers.
How to know if a job offer is fake
But not only has the way in which we access job offers changed, but also the way in which we present our candidacy or even the way in which interviews are conducted. With the pandemic, the labor market has been considerably affected. Workers now change jobs more frequently and this has made fraud in the Human Resources sector skyrocket.
How to spot a fake job offer
- It is nothing new that cybercriminals use all kinds of means to try to deceive us, be it with the use of fraudulent emails, offers on social networks or even through instant messaging apps. Although you cannot prevent these false offers from reaching you, you can try to differentiate them from a real offer with these simple tips.
- One of the most common practices is to impersonate the identity of HR professionals and, through their profiles, make us a false job offer. If you do not want to be a victim of deception, you can take these aspects into account.
- When you receive a suspicious job offer, verify the veracity of the person who sends it to you. You can use LinkedIn, the largest of professionals, to check if their profile exists or not, and suspect if you do not find it. Professionals frequently have an updated profile and structure within the application.
- Another thing that should make you suspicious is the little or inadequate information about the offer. If you have access to a call without relevant data such as the type of work you are going to do, the necessary training, company name, job position, hours or salary, you are probably facing an unreliable offer.
- As a general rule, when a recruiter consults your profile through LinkedIn and decides to offer you a position in their organization, it is an interaction with you, even if it is brief, to contact you to know if you have received it or if you could be interested. Therefore, if they ask you to communicate through an encrypted platform, you must be suspicious.
Do Not Share Personal Information
And finally, regardless of whether or not you distrust the recruiter, the most advisable thing in any of the cases is not to share personal information. An advice that you can extend to any activity on the network. You shouldn’t disclose our personal data, such as
- an address,
- email,
- telephone
- bank details.
You never know in whose hands they can end up and what use they can make of these. A way to avoid being victims of all kinds of scams.
Therefore, if you believe you have been victims of a fraudulent offer or have been able to discover that it is not true, it is convenient to inform other users and share your experience either through social networks or other Internet portals.
