Validating Job Specs

[PinkPoshRat]

Out of pure curiosity I thought I would look at the properties of the job spec which I just received from an agency for their client, the Home Office. The document was written by someone at Fujitsu.

Could this be a clue that the job is a fake?

Any thoughts??

[Mr.Whippy]

Not necessarily fake. Fujitsu are in the business of IT services/outsourcing so could be providing people to the home office....

[PinkPoshRat]

Thank you Mr Whippy. I'll just take a seat on the paranoid bench!

[dude69]

Also managers can be very lazy and incompetent. Especially those working for the government. I've seen people download things off the web with another company's name on, and pass it off as belonging to them. Often they don't remove the old company's name.

Indian outsourcers I worked with did this. Very embarrassing.

[Tingles]

Yep....

But we're not Anglian Water????

Called 'leveraging'.

[stillooking]

Out of pure curiosity I thought I would look at the properties of the job spec which I just received from an agency for their client, the Home Office. The document was written by someone at Fujitsu.

Could this be a clue that the job is a fake?

Any thoughts??

I've had Home Office JD's with fujitsu in the 'properties' box, wouldn't worry about it too much, it still might be a non-job though. Home Office is not a nice place to be though, for me.

[PinkPoshRat]

What's not nice at the HO?

[Mr.Whippy]

What's not nice at the HO?

It's public sector, so my guess would be the coffee and the women

[PinkPoshRat]

Surely there's a startbucks nearby?

[explorer]

Out of pure curiosity I thought I would look at the properties of the job spec which I just received from an agency for their client, the Home Office. The document was written by someone at Fujitsu.

Could this be a clue that the job is a fake?

Any thoughts??

Although it's widely believed that agencies have been using cheap tactics (like advertising non-existent jobs) for collecting CVs and other reasons, I don't think any of them would have the guts to associate a fake spec to an arbitrary company, and start "recruiting". The moment they name the client, there's a real danger of someone coming to know of the scam, for ex, by speaking to an aquitance who works for the client, or another agency who's in the concerned company's PSL. They will then find it difficult to find a corner to hide.