Reply to: Are LinkedIn jobs fake?

[SueEllen]

Lots of agents in every sector work this way.
They are discouraged from using job boards in the first instance on cost grounds.

To be fair I wouldn't use a job board first on the account of the amount of tulip CVs you have to wade through.

[LondonManc]

Absolutely. I'm coming out of retirement to do a job for a Nigerian prince. I had to pay £5000 to cover the paperwork but that's nothing compared to the rate I've ben offered.

You're too late. He died last week. Millions left uninherited. Apparently he tried to give it away but nobody believed him.

[CheeseSlice]

for better reach( what is that supposed to mean).

What they're actually doing is making the use of comments to share the original post with their network (e.g. 1000s of others that will also reply). Apparently commenting is more effective than 'sharing' a post in LinkedIn if you want something to be seen.

[courtg9000]

An agent I used once posts on LinkedIn first in his network then about 24-48 hours later puts the role on jobserve if there are no takers.

Lots of agents in every sector work this way.
They are discouraged from using job boards in the first instance on cost grounds.

[vetran]

yes

[Brussels Slumdog]

LinkedIn is becoming a joke. It is becoming a political forum for the pro Brexit and anti Lockdown and BOB lobby.
An agent posts a job for a requirement in Germany requiring German and a EU passport and you get 100 BOBs replying
" Interested" or for better reach( what is that supposed to mean).


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[jayn200]

That's sort of the point. They post to their contacts, who may want to apply themselves or recommend someone else.
I don't think you've quite got the point of this.

Yeaaah you're right. I thought the OP was referring to posted job ads but now reading it again I see OP meant recruiters reaching out via messages. My bad

[Mordac]

I see them make posts but I haven't seen them post in the actual job board part of linkedin.

That's sort of the point. They post to their contacts, who may want to apply themselves or recommend someone else.
I don't think you've quite got the point of this.

[jayn200]

But plenty of individual recruitment consultants do. You'll only see them if those individuals are in your 'network' though.

I see them make posts but I haven't seen them post in the actual job board part of linkedin.

[SueEllen]

On linkedin you should be mostly applying directly to end company you'd be working for. In this case most will be real as long as the company is real.

I don't think many 3rd party recruitment companies advertise on Linkedin. I haven't really applied to any jobs like that anyway. They tend to use the job boards. So if the extra 100k job is one of these then its probably fake.

An agent I used once posts on LinkedIn first in his network then about 24-48 hours later puts the role on jobserve if there are no takers.

[Mordac]

On linkedin you should be mostly applying directly to end company you'd be working for. In this case most will be real as long as the company is real.

I don't think many 3rd party recruitment companies advertise on Linkedin. I haven't really applied to any jobs like that anyway. They tend to use the job boards. So if the extra 100k job is one of these then its probably fake.

But plenty of individual recruitment consultants do. You'll only see them if those individuals are in your 'network' though.

[Eirikur]

On linkedin you should be mostly applying directly to end company you'd be working for. In this case most will be real as long as the company is real.

I don't think many 3rd party recruitment companies advertise on Linkedin. I haven't really applied to any jobs like that anyway. They tend to use the job boards. So if the extra 100k job is one of these then its probably fake.

Lots of agencies advertise on LI, including contracts. Both by just posting about them in their feeds and in the jobs section.

[jayn200]

On linkedin you should be mostly applying directly to end company you'd be working for. In this case most will be real as long as the company is real.

I don't think many 3rd party recruitment companies advertise on Linkedin. I haven't really applied to any jobs like that anyway. They tend to use the job boards. So if the extra 100k job is one of these then its probably fake.

[xoggoth]

If you are job hunting wouldn't any sane person use all the options available to them

Absolutely. I'm coming out of retirement to do a job for a Nigerian prince. I had to pay £5000 to cover the paperwork but that's nothing compared to the rate I've ben offered.

[Eirikur]

Lots of LI jobs are fake or screenscraped and will link you through countless amount of fake job websites where you need to register only to find out it was posted 40 days ago as where it in LI said posted today.
Typically the jobs that don't have an icon of a company next to it, but only some grey default picture fall in this category.

PS I see on jobserve also a lot of fake jobs at the moment, the same.contracts or jobs posted every day over and over again for the last three months, especially Anson McCade seems to do it, with very high salary or rates