Employment Scams And How To Avoid Them

While internet has come as a boon for the job seekers it has also turned into a curse for some. While searching for jobs online, large number of individuals became prey of employment scams. Here are some tips about employment scams and how to avoid them.

• Avoid employment ads offering huge pay for very little work.
• Such ads are mostly for home based jobs to be done via internet.
• Avoid ads telling easy means of getting work because getting a job is not a cake walk.
• No employer seeks money from you before you join. So stay away from jobs asking for money from you before you join.
• Employers seek for certain personal information as routine work but not too much personal data. So if you are finding anyone looking for too much personal info for a work, avoid that job.
• Avoid random e-mails offering instant jobs to you.

Identify Scam Jobs

There are plenty of ways to identify scam jobs. Here are some helpful quick tips – 

• If you are able to find the employer company credibly on Internet, then you can lay trust on that job. If the company is missing over Internet is seems to be very much different from what it claims of, get these warning signs. 

• If the company or its representative is trying to hide company’s name or online presence, then don’t bother to apply for that job. You can also type company’s name in Google’s search bar along with the word scam and carefully scan the results. 

• There are plenty of online groups and forums that gather all scam related news and information. Log on to any of such forum and scan if the company’s name is featuring there or not.

• If the virtual employer is demanding any caution money or job application fee, shun the idea of applying.

Identify Scam Jobs

Following are some of the obvious signs that would help in identification of scam jobs – 

• If a job proposal seems to be too good to be a reality, get serious and take enough care to scrutinize the job offer. 

• If any of the virtual job portal has contact you on their own, without you having provided them with any of your contact detail, be cautious. Finding of online resume may be their claim but take enough thought if you have actually posted your resume anywhere over online platform or not.

• If the job promises to be extraordinary pay package and that too without making much of the effort, the offer has to be scrutinized really well lest it may reveal to be a scam job later.

• If any of the job offers is being offered to you right away, without any application or interview, it has to be a fake or a scam job. 

• If you fathom the job profile or description to be very vague and unbelievable, do not invest much of your time or effort to apply there.