Reply to: Fake jobs on Jobserve

[threaded]

Interestingly the fake jobs for over here disappeared last night.

There are older, real, jobs still up there, just all the fake ones gone.

Wonder if it was something we said...

I was pondering out loud to the girly about it and she showed me in an on-line law book where it says I have a duty to report them. Now I don't have to, I guess.

[alreadypacked]

I am currently in India, I can't get into jobserve site, I get redirected to their Indian site.

[jmo21]

I don't think so, you ring them, they give you the spiel and skip to the end, it's a perm role.

Then wtf was it doing in the contract section??????

no mistake just wasting our time

hence the quotes!

the excuse they always use is "oh that's a mistake it's actually a permanent role, would you consider permanent work?"

[norrahe]

"Unusually this client needs references before the interview.. when can you send them?"

when they offer me the contract!

[Spacecadet]

I don't think so, you ring them, they give you the spiel and skip to the end, it's a perm role.

Then wtf was it doing in the contract section??????

no mistake just wasting our time

even worse is the 10-15 mins of conversation which then ends with

"Unusually this client needs references before the interview.. when can you send them?"

[norrahe]

another classic is perm jobs listed as a "contract"

Presumably many agents "make a mistake" and choose the option in a drop down.

I don't think so, you ring them, they give you the spiel and skip to the end, it's a perm role.

Then wtf was it doing in the contract section??????

no mistake just wasting our time

[minestrone]

So what is the MO of the fake CV scam, just fire out CVs with with your current job a fake with specific skill sets?

[jmo21]

another classic is perm jobs listed as a "contract"

Presumably many agents "make a mistake" and choose the option in a drop down.

[bored]

Ah right, those Contract/Permanent 'roles', looking at one right now.

[minestrone]

There is a cracker in Edinburgh just now for a "Contract/Permanent" role of "Ultra Dynamic Web Developer - Award Winning Search Engine" doing "Java/VB/ASP/C#" with a rate of anywhere between "25 and 55"

[tim123]

I saw an advert last week for a very well paid contract based just around the corner from me and in a line of work in which I have at least 10 years experience.

Anyway - I phoned the agenct as I've contracted through them in the past and asked if there was anything available.
Shock... absolutely nothing going, although could I please send him an updated CV

Now, he's either bulltulipting me and already had enough CV's for the client
OR
he wasn't bulltulipting me and the advert was fake
OR
he's just a retard

bound to be 2 AND 3

tim

[Purple Dalek]

What's even funnier is watching a fake job appear, then over the following hours and days watching other agencies doing a chinese copy of the same job and posting their version of the advert on jobserve.

You get this chain of fake jobs triggering fake jobs, which trigger more fake jobs, until in the end you see this chinese-whispers effect leading to the most bizarre adverts, which get posted on this forum for us to laugh at.

[bored]

No, but you said you'd been reading CVs and they were the same as a year or two ago. Mine's the same as a year or two ago. With some bits added since then of course.

Bah, edited.

[Spacecadet]

I saw an advert last week for a very well paid contract based just around the corner from me and in a line of work in which I have at least 10 years experience.

Anyway - I phoned the agenct as I've contracted through them in the past and asked if there was anything available.
Shock... absolutely nothing going, although could I please send him an updated CV

Now, he's either bulltulipting me and already had enough CV's for the client
OR
he wasn't bulltulipting me and the advert was fake
OR
he's just a retard

[Doggy Styles]

Yeah. Not sure I even care about fake CVs...

No, but you said you'd been reading CVs and they were the same as a year or two ago. Mine's the same as a year or two ago. With some bits added since then of course.